Evaluate The Developmental Appropriate Environment For Primary-Aged Children

Essay Question #12: Develop a checklist of 10 items or activities that you would use to evaluate the developmental appropriateness of an environment for primary-aged children in terms of social/emotional development. Explain why you chose each of these ten items or activities. Why would you expect to see them in a developmentally appropriate environment for this age group?
Checklist:
1. Opportunities to learn who they are
2. Opportunities to build self-confidence
3. Opportunities to explain feelings
4. Opportunities to express thoughts
5. Modeling of emotions and impulse regulation strategies
6. Frequent visits to new environmental settings
7. Opportunities to ask for help
8. Opportunities to comfort peers
9. Opportunities to understand boundaries
10. Opportunities to resolve peer conflict
Providing opportunities for primary-aged children to understanding who they are and their environment around them is vital to their success in life because it allows them to identify themselves as a unique member of a specific group. Once they understand their self to be a unique individual it becomes easy for their self-confidence to enhanced. Primary-aged teachers need to provide opportunities for them to develop a secure sense of self through new challenges and learning experiences. When a primary-aged child feels a secure sense of self they have the self-confidence to show confidence in a range of abilities, the capacity to take on and accomplish new tasks, the ability to volunteer to answer first during a science experiment, and
They learn best through opportunities, provided by their teacher, to explore their own feelings and abilities. But they still rely on the support of their teachers to reassure their behavior and to assist them when they need help understanding something they are unfamiliar