Module 3 Learning Guides

Guide Name and Description/Objectives

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Learning Guide 3.1: Setting the Stage

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges teachers face when interacting with students with and without disabilities.

Learning Guide 3.2: Ask The Expert

With this guide, learners will:

• Describe environmental practices..
• Identify key characteristics of recommended practices related to environment.

Learning Guide 3.3: Gathering Information

With this guide, learners will:

• Understand the components of the child's natural learning environment.
• Understad how the environment can serve as an intervention strategy to promote access and participation of all children, especially children with disabilities.

Learning Guide 3.4: Take Action

With this guide, learners will:

• Understand when and how to modify or adapt the environment including physical space, everyday activities and routines, and materials in order to optimize child learning.
• Understand when and how to use assistive technology to support child learning.

Learning Guide 3.5: Voices from the Field

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify practitioners' and families' experience-based knowledge related to learning environments for young children and the critical issues involved with making adaptations to effectively support child engagement.

Learning Guide 3.6: Scenario-Based Activity

This guide contains a set of five simulations/scenarios that can be used in place of, or in addition to, the online simulation.

With this guide:

• Learners will practice engaging in professional discussions that address the design of physical, social, and temporal environments that promote the access and participation of all children.
• Learners will apply what they have learned about environment practices.

Learning Guide 3.7: Reframing Activity Guide

With this guide:

• Learners will reframe statements about families to reflect an anti-bias viewpoint.
• Learners will reflect on implicit bias and its impact on their practice.

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Learning Guide 3.8: Performance Feedback Guide

This guide can be used with learners who have designed or participated in designing environments for young children with disabilities in either their own classroom/setting/program or in field-experiences associated with university coursework.

Learning Guide 3.9: Practice Profile

Environmental practices refer to aspects of the space, materials (toys, books, etc.), equipment, routines, and activities that practitioners and families can intentionally alter to support each child's learning across developmental domains.

Learning Guide 3.10: Setting the Stage- Wrap-Up

With this guide, learners will:

• Identify the challenges practitioners face when adapting the physical, social, and temporal environment to support children's learning and development across domains.
• Develop solutions for practitioners in adapting environments for children with disabilities and their families.