Glen Education Brady Road 

Effective Learning Environments

By Stella Eizenberg and Yan Li, 

Early Childhood Teachers

An effective learning environment encourages learning through play with a rich set of materials and learning opportunities. It will also be responsive, containing features that provoke thinking, open-ended outcomes, and creativity.

At Glen Brady Road Kindergarten, we value play-based learning by providing areas dedicated to different experiences to help children’s engagement and learning. For example, light tables are a great way to encourage children to explore, construct and discover new things. They add fresh views to equipment, allowing children to create patterns, sort and categorise or simply be creative. They promote creativity and problem-solving skills. 

As Glen Brady Road embrace a flexible approach to experiences, our educators provide and encourage the flexible use and access to resources. We provide a variety of resources that responds to children’s agency and interest in play spaces. For example, painting experiences support children to maintain respectful, trusting relationships with other children and educators. Children engage in enjoyable interactions, express ideas and feelings and begin to use images to convey meaning, supporting communication.

Reusing, recycling, repurposing of resources promotes an awareness of sustainable practice. This provides opportunities for children to problem solve and be creative in ways that develop their respect for the environment. We provide children with open-ended, recycling materials which allows them to participate in their own way and encourages creativity.