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Differentiating Early Childhood Learning Centers

The document describes an observation task to identify how early childhood classroom centers can be differentiated to meet student needs at different ability levels. It includes tables to document two classroom centers - an art center and a math center. For each center, the description, resources, intended international learning outcomes, and differentiated ability levels are outlined. The goal is to encourage student teachers to recognize how centers can be adapted to challenge students at mastery, developing, and emerging levels.

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Differentiating Early Childhood Learning Centers

The document describes an observation task to identify how early childhood classroom centers can be differentiated to meet student needs at different ability levels. It includes tables to document two classroom centers - an art center and a math center. For each center, the description, resources, intended international learning outcomes, and differentiated ability levels are outlined. The goal is to encourage student teachers to recognize how centers can be adapted to challenge students at mastery, developing, and emerging levels.

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Observation Task 1: Differentiating Centers

Focus: Differentiating centers based activities in the early childhood classroom


Objective: To encourage student teachers to identify how classroom centers can be
differentiated to meet all student levels (Mastery, Developing and Emerging)
Procedure: Photograph and document the centers based activities implemented in the setting
during the course of the day and identify the learning outcomes the activities met

Table 1: Differentiating Centers


Observed learning Centers Description: Resources: International Differentiated Ability
(include photo): Learning Levels:
Outcome:
(list only what
you consider to
be the primary
goals)
Art center The student in Different types Get to know the Mastery
this center of colors and colors name Student will be
they have panting. creative in this area
coloring and Develop fine they will imagen
drawing Different colors motor skills by things and create at
activities of papers using the art as a draw or anything
Pencils resources
Scissors Developing
Glow Developing the fine
Glitter motor skills

Developing their
emotional skills

Develop their
physical skills

Emerging

Students imagination
and creativity

Table 2: Differentiating Centers


Observed learning Centers Description: Resources: International Differentiated Ability
(include photo): Learning Levels:
Outcome:
(list only what
you consider to
be the primary
goals)
Math center The student in Math games Recognizes, Mastery
this center such as number counts, orders, Sort, count and write
they are games and writes and uses groups of numbers
playing with pattern games numbers up to Sort different sized
the math 10. and write numbers
activities. and adjectives (from
Sorts or matches flashcards) 3 big,
objects and talks small, red etc.
about sorting
Sort according to
color and add
one/two more of
another color OR
make one/two less
etc. Write the
number sums you
create.

Developing
Developing math
skills with the colors
and numbers and
specially the pattern
skills.

Emerging

Using number to
count things

Student understand
how they should
organize things
depend to the size of
color

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