CURRICULUM & LEARNING ENVIRONMENT * 3 HOURS * LEVEL 2The Infant and Toddler Classroom
Ways to Support Responsive Routines
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A child’s ability to predict what will happen next and how he will be treated will lead to greater security. He will be freer to use his energies to explore his environment and learn, which in turn, leads to a sense of competence and feelings of confidence about his ability to be successful in his world. On the other hand, a child who is in a setting where adults do things suddenly, don’t provide some advance warning about what’s coming next, or who don’t work to try to match their care to what they see the child is experiencing, finds it more difficult to be prepared for what comes next.
Responsive routines and schedules are used by caregivers to enhance the quality of the relationship between the infant and the adult caregiver. This means that the sensitive caregiver uses her presence – her voice, eye contact, her physical proximity or nearness to the child, and her touch—to provide security and to assure the baby that the world is a safe and interesting place. |
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