Enabling Environments in the Early Years

Book excerpt: Enabling Environments in the Early Years is a highly practical guide to creating positive learning environments across a range of early years settings. It contains advice on: making the most of what you've got, in terms of space, resources and budget, providing an environment which involves children and encourages child-initiated learning, creating an environment that is flexible, sustainable, challenging, safe and versatile, involving staff, children with varying needs and parents in developing the environment and producing risk assessment, polices and procedures. The comprehensive range of support resources within this title includes: case studies, checklists, observation templates, questionnaires, risk assessment forms, ideas for action plans and sample policies.