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Evaluation Of A Classroom Plan

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Classroom Plan
Bernadette Petty
ECE 332: Child Development
Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
Date: July 23, 2016

Classroom Plan
For my classroom plan, I chose to discuss a preschool room. I will talk about what I think Piaget’s stage theory is in my words. I will also identify and describe the development characteristics of preschool children. I will create a layout of a preschool classroom, and I will create an activity that goes with each development.
Piaget’s stage theory is that children learn in stages (Lefrancois, 2012). Piaget states that children’s learning and growth are gradual. In the pre-school age children have moved pasted the infancy stage and are in beginning the middle part of the preoperational stage (Lefrancois, …show more content…

The third stage is the concrete operations stage from ages 7-11. In this stage children have learned to consider others thoughts and feelings as well as their own and are now able to process more complex thinking (Lefrancois, 2012). Piaget also felt that direct teaching instead of using an example, was better for children to learn because children learn from their experiences (Lefrancois, 2012). According to Piaget a child’s knowledge grows from using concrete objects, objects of different sizes, shapes, colors, and the child learns to sort, classify, compare, and sequence, they make discoveries, they experiment, and they modify their way of thinking (Lefrancois, 2012). Children should have a variety of toys and materials to experiment with and teachers should let the children in the preschool age explore, play make believe, and involve themselves with the children so that they are able to learn on their own with guidance.
Developmental characteristics for the pre-school age group are language development, cognitive, physical, social and emotional. Language development at this time should include using short sentences at the beginning of preschool, at least three to five words (Building,) Children are able to make comments and request, like saying something is pretty or asking for a snack. During language development children

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