Describe your current educational setting

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Assignment: At the monthly administrator's meeting for ABC Early Childhood Center, the regional director shared with you a grant opportunity for early childhood centers to receive a grant of $5000 to remodel your center to stimulate physical activity and promote creativity for your students. The regional director encouraged you all to apply and you have decided to take them up on their suggestion and complete a grant application.

In your grant application:

1. Describe your current educational setting, including the age of children (0-2, 3-5, or 6-8), number of children you work with, and the philosophy of your education setting. You can base this either on the education setting in which you are currently working or you can create a fictitious center. (.5 points)

2. Design the classroom environment that you would create with the grant money that is based on developmentally appropriate strategies and tools to promote optimal cognitive development and learning in young children. To create your illustration you may use Classroom Architect, Scholastic Class Set-Up Tool, or Kaplan Floor Planner. Attach a copy of your classroom design to your grant proposal. (2 points)

3. Discuss how the design of your classroom environment aligns with Figure 1.1 from the text and is supported by current research about optimal classroom environments.

4. Explain how the environment you have created would promote optimal physical development and learning in young children in each area of your classroom. Use specific examples from your illustration and research to support your decisions.)

5. Explain how the environment you have created would encourage development of the creative self in young children in each area of your classroom. Use specific examples from your illustration and research to support your decisions.

6. Summarize how the grant money will help you to ensure you can create a learning environment that promotes child-centered active learning and 21st-century skills.

Research and Resource Expectations:

1. Source Requirement (.25points):

• At least two scholarly peer-reviewed sources

• At least one professional credible source.

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