Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 3.4: Contribute to enabling play environments
Learning outcome: 1 Understand the play environment
Assessment criteria: 1.2 Identify types of environment
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- Types of environment include:
- Indoor environments
- Outdoor environments
- Emotional environments
- Indoor and outdoor environments describe the physical space and will include room layout, furniture, resources, toys and books
- The emotional environment of an early years setting should be positive and aim to make all children feel safe, secure and included and facilitate their development
- Factors that contribute to a positive emotional environment include:
- Social – relationship with key person, relationship with other children, feeling included, opportunities to interact with others
- Cultural – promotion of equality and diversity, sensitive to different cultures
- Personal – positive values and beliefs of the adults in the environment, positive role modeling
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