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Classroom environments influence young children’s learning. The layout of the furniture can facilitate communication or discourage it, invite exploration or guard against it, allow for movement or limit it. The classroom walls offer opportunities for the teacher to communicate with the children, parents, and visitors to the classroom. Frequently, bulletin boards provide information about the administration of the classroom, calendar, schedule, classroom helpers, upcoming events, or parent organizations. The walls can be used to display information that children typically learn to recognize and use during their time in school--the alphabet, words, numbers, shapes, colors. Documentation of projects describes the progress of areas of inquiry, field visits, interviews with experts, and the development of investigations. What are some techniques and strategies to facilitate classroom display and documentation in order to make it interesting and memorable to those who see it? In this Ask an Expert session, Sylvia Chard answers your questions about display and documentation.
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