Environmental Rating Scales
by Amanjot Gill
1. Basic Leadership Skills: Set Goals, Observe, Implement, Reflect
2. Professional Growth: 1)ICERS TOOLS help to discover the developmental limitations in the environment 2) HDLH guide educators in planning an environment that best supports the 4 foundations of learning
3. Goals for quality improvement: 1) Observing & learning from experiences 2) Setting up a healthy risk-taking environment 3) Finding more effective ways of using environment as 'third teacher'
4. Belonging: Ensuring Inclusion and respecting diversity
5. Engagement: Positive interactions help in strengthening the bonds between families, children & educators
6. Well being: Ensures health and safety of children by exposing risky features in the environment
7. Expression: Setting up play- materials that allows children to express and explore themselves in different ways