Inspiring Spaces for Young Children

By Jessica DeViney, Sara Harris, Sandra Duncan

Book Overview

The classroom environment is an essential component for maximizing learning experiences for young children. Inspiring Spaces for Young Children invites teachers to enhance children's educational environments in a beautiful way by emphasizing aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points. Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can learn and grow. With easy-to-implement ideas that incorporate nature, children's artwork, and everyday classroom materials, the photographs and ideas in this book promote creativity, learning, and simple beauty.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876593171
• ISBN13: 9780876593172
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.0" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher