The Organized Classroom

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The Organized Classroom

• Candice HoytToolbox for Teaching
• Stacy EricksonHome Key Organization

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The Organized Classroom

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• Write on your worksheet
• The area or materials in your classroom that take
  the longest to clean up.
• The hardest transition and what happens.
  Example Between lunch and nap takes too long,
  congestion at the sink.

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Who We Are

• Stacy Erickson
• Professional organizer specializing in spaces
  for child development, both in the home and in
  caregiving/education settings.
• Candice Hoyt
• STARS trainer whose specialties include behavior
  support and classroom management.

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Learning Objectives

1. Identify and design age-appropriate materials,
   set-up and schedules.
2. Follow a step by step approach to teaching and
   managing routines.
3. Evaluate your current space and develop a plan
   for change.

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Table Talk

1. The area or materials in your classroom that take
   the longest to clean up.
2. The hardest transition and what happens.
   Example Between lunch and nap takes too long,
   congestion at the sink.

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The Environment

• Identify and design age-appropriate materials,
  set-up and schedules.

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Toy Clean Up Challenge
Learning Objective 1. Clean-Up Stress
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Classroom Organization Checklist

1. If asked to clean up, where would you start?
2. Could you figure out where things went?
3. How would you find your favorite toy?
4. Where would you set up to do an activity?
5. Observe record usage of space materials

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Infants

• Low shelves
• Spread-out materials and half-filled baskets
• One container for toys (not sorted)
• Children clean up

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Toddlers

• Large and fine motor activities
• Choice Learn decision making and
  self-regulation.
• Open-ended materials
• Rotate 2 weeks to one month
• Master activities try new ones.

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Preschoolers

• Rooms easily cluttered
• Can focus for longer amounts of time
• Right amount of stimulation

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Nice colors, home-like. Reach too high?
Good visibility. Too much stuff?
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Resources

• Infant Toddler Spaces by Community Playthings
• http//bit.ly/InfantToddlerSpacesBook
• Child Care Licensing Guide
• Washington State Early Learning and Development
  Guidelines
• Materials
• Development curriculum by age

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Why Organize?
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Why Organize?

• Less visually stimulating
• Fewer materials easier clean up
• Organization structure
• Space to prepare next activity
• Less clutter less stress
• Adults children have time to play together
• Positive mood, positive relationships

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Young children need

• Structured Environments

• At-Risk Households

• What to expect
• Where materials are kept
• Sense of trust
• Trust in the environment

• Routines
• What is coming next
• Expected at different times of the day
• Appropriate space for expected tasks

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Focus and Attention Span

• 4 year olds with longer attention span are almost
  50 more likely to complete college by age 25

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Helping Children Focus
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Schedules

• Appropriate timing
• Not too much
• Not too little

• Time to transition and theyre still very into
  the play
• Can you lengthen these times?
• How flexible is your schedule?
• How can you make it flexible?

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Materials Environment

• Keep it simple
• Consider reducing the amount of items

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Minimize interruption

• by adults, other children, schedule,
  environmental influences.

• Child focuses longer
• Lengthened periods of learning and play
• Child practices focus
• Step back to see the childs interest attention
• Support that later

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Organization Strategies

• Tips and Tricks for the Classroom

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Take away half
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Take away half

• Rotate smaller variety of each type of thing
• 1-2 kinds of blocks out at one time intentional
• More flexible materials

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Organized or Flexible?

• Minimize stuff, minimize need for specific place
  to put away
• Shelving
• Containers

• Losing literacy?

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Flexible shelving for quick cleanup
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Flexible shelving for quick cleanup
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Flexible shelving for quick cleanup
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Flexible shelving for quick cleanup
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Clear Expectations

• Is this something they need to ask permission
  for?
• Teach and support routines.

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Teaching Managing Routines

• Follow a step by step approach to teaching and
  managing routines.

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Goals for Routines

• Children independent, some guidance
• Know routines
• Quickly learn new rules
• Take responsibility for routine
• Group responsibility
• Teachers some guiding, avoid directing

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Enterprise Talk

• NO
• Directions
• Questions
• Praise
• Instead
• Descriptions
• Narrations
• Subjective Talk

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Descriptive Cue SequenceNon-Directive Speech for
Procedures

• Signal Communicate it is time to transition
• Its time to go outside. / Free-choice is
  over.
• Teach a wordless signal
• Information Drawing attention to
• Objects involved in the procedure
• What is being done correctly (reinforce)
• Model Very little
• Direction Clear, specific who what
• Contingency Whats nextwere waiting for

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Descriptive Cue Sequence

• Wait 5 seconds before progressing (more for some
  kids)
• Do not progress to next step if children act
• Goal They start routine after signal

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Descriptive Cue Sequence Cleanup

• 1. Signal
• Verbal/non-verbal
• Its time to ____.
• Non-verbal signals?
• 2. Descriptions
• Information
• The doll basket is in the corner.

• 3. Modeling
• Do what they should do one at a time.
• Im putting the dolls clothes in the basket.

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Descriptive Cue Sequence Cleanup

• 4. Direction
• Specific task to one specific child.
• Here, Gunnar, put this book on the shelf.

• 5. Contingency
• What happens after cleanup?
• When we are finished cleaning up, we can go
  outside.

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Descriptive Cue Sequence Cleanup

• How is this different from what you are doing
  now?
• How will this help you?

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Summaries with Examples

1. What is enterprise behavior?
2. Descriptive Cue Sequence
3. Enterprise Talk
4. Intrinsically-Phrased Response(Reinforcement)

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Planning Your Space

• Evaluate your current space and develop a plan
  for change.

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Table Talk Your Organizational Plan

1. What could you take away to make things less
   cluttered?
2. What simple things could you add to help children
   be more engaged?
3. Are there any ways to move furniture to divide
   the space differently?
4. Who will support you in making these changes?
5. What other ideas do you have?

Worksheet Organization Plan
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What Is the First Thing You Will Do?
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Home Key Organization

• Stacy Erickson
• stacy_at_homekeyorganization.com
  1-877-204-KEY1
• Homekeyorganization.com
• /HomeKeyOrganization /homekeyseattle
• Services
• Individual family/classroom consultations
  organization/social media
• News on speaking engagements, articles, TV
  appearances

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Toolbox for Teaching

• Candice Hoyt
• candice_at_toolboxforteaching.com
  206-715-1878
• Toolboxforteaching.com
• /toolboxforteaching /toolboxft
• Services
• In-service STARS trainings
• One-on-one computer or other consultingeligible
  for STARS hours
• Correspondence trainings
• Independent projects

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