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For most programs, the 1990's will be a time when trained, talented teachers are hard to come by, yet the pressure to be educational will (appropriately) increase. Teaching environments for young children only work with good teachers who stay with the program. In a learning environment approach, a director can apply the knowledge and expertise of trained staff to create built-in learning and to plan learning centers so that less skilled staff can do what they do best-"be" with the children: listen to them, ask them questions, guide them toward self-control in the difficult waters of group living. Thus they can function, not simply as aides helping with care activities but more like museum volunteers, working off the learning they and others have built in to the setting.The Logic of Learning Environments
_ Children learn from the entire experience the day provides. The way time and space are structured, the furnishings arranged, the equipment and materials provided, and all the ways adults and children behave teach the child what the world is like, how it works, what he is capable of, and his place in it.
All day settings are not schools but places where adults ...