Designing Outdoor Spaces to Nurture Children's Belief in Themselves

What's In This Kit?
This training kit helps teachers understand important skills that children must possess for success in school and in life. This training program contains the following components:

• Expected training outcomes and learning objectives
• Training tips and strategies
• Training benchmarks
• Preparation and implementation steps
• Handouts
• The article “Yes, You Can! Helping Children Believe in Themselves through the Design of Your Outdoor Space” by Jan White
• References and Resources
• Training Certificate for Learner �" Certificate of Attendance and Participation
• Training Certificate for Trainer �" Award Certificate

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audiences for this training kit are beginning, intermediate, and advanced Learners who are working with young children 3 through 5 years.

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is estimated at 1.5 hours. Implementation and actual training time is 3.0 hours, which includes 2 hours of Face-to-Face Training and 1 hour of Independent Study and an Applied Activity Project. An optional Bonus Activity can add up to 1 hour to the training time.

Training Outcomes:

By the end of this training, Learners will be able to:

1. explain the value of outdoor play and the ways children’s confidence can be developed on the playground.
2. evaluate their current playground according to criteria in the article.
3. develop a plan to improve their playground using information from the article.

These training outcomes address the following American standards:

• National Association for the Education of Young Children’s (NAEYC) Standards and Accreditation Performance Criteria (2005). More information on NAEYC’s learning standards can be found at www.naeyc.org.

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