The Outdoor Classroom
Discover the benefits of implementing an outdoor classroom program for early childhood education and child care centers. Learn about specific considerations and valuable resources to successfully establish an engaging and enriching learning environment.Trainings incorporating this outcome
120 hours courses
12 CEUs
Related Outcomes
- Recognize the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to create a natural outdoor classroom that supports child development in all areas.
- Describe an outdoor classroom in action.
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Demonstrate an understanding of classroom capacity, staff to student ratio, and regulations for outdoor play space
- Describe the benefits of an outdoor classroom.
- Give examples of positive guidance in the early childhood classroom.
- Identify strategies to facilitate learning in the early childhood classroom using various methods.
- Demonstrate methods to address gender stereotypes and sexism in the classroom related to children’s math abilities
- Identify how cooking projects can be teaching tools in the classroom.
- Define what transition times are and when they occur during the day in the classroom.
- Define what transition times are and when they occur during the day in the classroom
- Define classroom community.
- Demonstrate an understanding that transition times are teaching opportunities and can be useful in classroom management
- Identify how cooking projects can be teaching tools in the classroom
- Describe positive discipline strategies to use in the classroom.
- Distinguish appropriate outdoor safety concerns.
- Teachers will demonstrate a variety of ways for families to be represented in their classrooms when they are not physically present.
- Identify common interaction strategies to help promote a positive classroom environment for young children.
- Identify procedures that will promote a safe environment (indoor and outdoor)
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