Learning Environment Reflection Journal

Journal Prompt – Option 1

Scenario

As a program director in a suburb of a metropolitan city, you have observed your early childhood education program become increasingly diverse over the past six months. To ensure you and your staff engage in reflective, responsive, and intentional practices, you decide to evaluate your early childhood education environment using an environmental rating system. As the program director, your overall goal is to take inventory of the multicultural and anti-bias education materials and processes represented in each setting.

Instructions

For this journal – option 1, you will document your reflection of your evaluation of a learning environment.

Please note: You will need to visit an early childhood setting such as childcare, preschool, Head Start, family childcare, or other children’s group environment for this assignment. If a visit is not possible, please complete the journal – option 2.

Part One –

Evaluate an Environment

• Select one group to evaluate using the provided checklist for the evaluation of anti-bias and multiculturalism learning environments.

EEC4015_Mod04_Evaluation Checklist_Option 1.docx

• The group could include a classroom, an age group, etc., in an early childhood education environment, including a childcare center, preschool, family childcare, and personal home care.

Part Two –

Checklist Reflection Journal

Write a reflection journal entry on the findings from the checklist that:

• Summarizes your findings from all eight categories:
• General environment
• Library/writing
• Cooking
• Dramatic play
• Blocks
• Music and movement
• Social studies
• Overall programming
• Identifies four strengths of the environment for anti-bias and multicultural learning.
• Recommends four ways for creating an anti-bias and multicultural learning environment.
• Uses professional language and tone with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation in the 400-500-word reflection journal.

Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

LLS Resources

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Journal Prompt – Option 2

Scenario

As a program director in a suburb of a metropolitan city, you have observed your early childhood education program become increasingly diverse over the past six months. To ensure you and your staff engage in reflective, responsive, and intentional practices, you decide to create one exemplary learning environment that will be the standard for anti-bias and multicultural learning in the program.

Instructions

For this journal – option 2, you will document your plan for the exemplary anti-bias and multicultural learning environment using the provided checklist for the evaluation of anti-bias and multiculturalism learning environments.

EEC4015_Mod04_Evaluation Checklist_Option 2.docx

Write a reflection journal entry on your learning environment plan that:

• Illustrates how each of the eight categories below will provide an exemplary anti-bias and multicultural learning environment for children in your program.
• General environment
• Library/writing
• Cooking
• Dramatic play
• Blocks
• Music and movement
• Social studies
• Overall programming
• Provides at least two examples for each of the eight categories including materials, teacher interactions, family engagement, and images/photos.
• Summarizes how this exemplary anti-bias, multicultural learning environment will be used as the standard in the program for training and future improvements to other classrooms.
• Uses professional language and tone with correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation in the reflection journal.

Setting Evaluation for Anti-bias and Multiculturalism

Evaluate an early childhood education environment (childcare, preschool, family childcare, personal home) for multiculturalism and anti-bias.

E= Evident

I= In-Progress

Last Updated on August 31, 2021