Your Assignment Type: Standard Question
Currently Working in Childcare? Yes
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Your Question?
1. List 3 aesthetic experiences that are developmentally appropriate for children?
2. List 6 materials that are appropriate for children to use.
3. How do early childhood professionals foster creative development and aesthetic awareness in children?
4. How can creative experiences stimulate children’s curiosity and learning?
5. What are the characteristics of high quality learning environments?
6. Many early childhood professionals believe that children should be given the opportunity to throw their creations away at the end of the experience. What do you think of this statement and how does it relate to the value of the creative experience?
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1. List 3 aesthetic experiences that are developmentally appropriate for children?
Visual arts experiences (such as: drawing, painting, modelling, printing, construction, collage)
Music and sound experiences (e.g. listening to music, singing, participating in music making, listening to sounds of nature
Taste and smell experiences
2. List 6 materials that are appropriate for children to use.
thick and thin crayons, pencils, water based paints, finger paints, thick and thin brushes, natural materials, clay, play dough, papier-mache, recycled materials, modelling wire, oil pastels, chalks, found objects and self-made objects for printing, joining materials such as glue and BluTac
3. How do early childhood professionals foster creative development and aesthetic awareness in children?
By providing open-ended materials such as recycled or natural materials that can be used in many way. By ensuring children have opportunities to initiate their own play. By encouraging children to express their ideas and feelings using a variety of mediums, e.g. visual arts, language, dance, drama, music. By providing sensory experiences such as water, clay and sand. By providing a rich and valued environment that is inviting and aesthetically pleasing. By arranging the environment so children can explore, discover, be messy and have space to create. By setting up interest areas that match children’s skills, levels and current interests. By making materials and equipment easily accessible so children can select, replace and care for them without educator assistance. By providing storage for projects so that children can continue to work over several days or weeks. By making materials and experiences available for several days or weeks so children can explore them fully or extend them.
Surround children with examples of their own work. By allowing children to choose the work they want displayed, and how and where it will be displayed. By ensuring to encourage brainstorming and problem solving. By asking open-ended questions and encourage children to think about things in different ways, by encouraging original ideas, thoughts and expressions. By being responsive and sensitive to children’s ideas and suggestions. By valuing the work and individuality of each child. By encouraging children to take risks, learn from their mistakes and try again. By modelling creativity by solving problems and sharing your own interests and skills. By encouraging the children to sometimes use technology when creating, such as computers, cameras, etc. By Allowing children to choose and suggest activities that they would like to do.
4. How can creative experiences stimulate children’s curiosity and learning?
Curiosity drives children to explore, learn and discover new things. A safe and supportive environment intrigues children’s curiosity. Children enjoy sharing the excitement of discovery. This learning experience helps and stimulates children to build confidence and self-esteem for optimal exploration. By stimulating a child’s curiosity you are helping them improve their imagination and providing a foundation for the basic skills that the child will need throughout life.
5. What are the characteristics of high quality learning environments?
The following are the characteristics of a high quality learning environment:
Educated, attentive, and engaged teachers and staff
Teachers with four-year degrees and specific training in early childhood education
No more than 8 infants and toddlers and no more than 20 preschoolers in a classroom
Teacher to child ratios of 1:3 for infants and 1:10 for preschoolers
Teachers who crouch to eye-level to speak to children, and who hold, cuddle, show affection, and speak directly to infants and toddlers
Families and teachers exchanging information about the child's development and learning progress
A safe, healthy, and child-friendly environment
A room well-equipped with sufficient materials and toys
Classrooms in which materials and activities are placed at eye level for the children
Materials and toys accessible to children in an orderly display
Centers that encourage safe, outdoor playtime
Frequent hand-washing by children and adults
Visitors welcomed with appropriate parental consent
Stimulating activities and appropriately structured routines
Children who are engaged in their activities
Children offered breakfast and lunch and a time to nap
Children participating with teachers and each other in individual, small-group, and large-group activities
Children receiving a variety of stimuli in their daily routine using indoor and outdoor spaces and age-appropriate language, literacy, math, science, art, music, movement, and dramatic play experiences
Preschoolers who are allowed to play independently
6. Many early childhood professionals believe that children should be given the opportunity to throw their creations away at the end of the experience. What do you think of this statement and how does it relate to the value of the creative experience?
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