"Environmental awareness is as significant to a teacher as to any artist. By recognizing that environment is an interplay between materials, people and time schedules, the teacher can create a more productive setting for learning" (Harms, 1970).Over twenty years ago, Thelma Harms, an authority on developing scales to ascertain the environmental appropriateness of classrooms for young children, wrote about evaluating early childhood environments from a child's viewpoint. Harms's focus was: To a child, everything in a setting is a potential stimulus. In other words, the relationship between adults and the child, the interactions, space, and materials all affect the overall environment. The efficacy of this focus is that it takes into account the environmental factors that contribute to the child's behavior in those settings.
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