CHCECE025 Assessment Answers: Embed Sustainable Practices in Service Operations

Analysis of Article 1:

Ways that services can embed sustainable practices within their operations

Services can embed sustainable practices within their operation with the help of four effective ways that are below presented:

1) Use of recycled or natural materials;

 2) Holding talks with youngsters about the natural world and the interconnectedness of humans, plants, animals, and the land, as well as the need for recycling;

3) Growing and preparation of food production;

4) Show respect, cares, and appreciation to the natural environment as a role model;

As per the help of the above-defined ways, students can be easily understood the benefits of being a person who is dependent the nature to live life effectively.

Support to Children for becoming environmentally responsible

It is a fact that people’s engagement with nature can only be possible when they will make direct engagement with natural products in their life. These ways are explained below discussion:

Grow a Veggie Garden: This way is more effective for educators to prepare children to respect nature. It is because that growing vegetable in the garden is also effective for children to know the process of growing, benefits of the seedling and happiness of own garden’s vegetable to live healthily.

Spend more time with plants: It is another way that can be used to develop an understanding of the benefits of being dependent on nature. It is because that the spend of more time with the plants also develop a caring nature among the children that can help them to associate their daily life with that plant. As a result of this way, children may interact towards the benefits of the plantation to nature and their health. 

Discuss sustainability in class and home: Awareness of children towards sustainability is an encouraging factor that develops the knowledge and understanding towards the benefits of the natural environment. Such understanding may be helped them to increase their engagement with nature. Further, the discussion on the sustainability aspect in the school is another way to increase the dependability of the children on nature as they will use such knowledge as a part of their education system.

Role in Students’ Learning

In the context of children’s learning process, I would like to play the role of the instructor as this role helps me share my understandings and learning with the children and observe them very closely, which is not an easy task for any other’s role.

Facilitates to Engagement of Children in Learning and Development

Coaching is a good method for children’s engagement in learning and development. This method helps me motivate the children towards engagement with nature like plants and the external environment. As a result, I would be able to increase their association with the external environment, where they will increase with the people, nature, and animals that will improve their performance. 

Strategy to assess children’s learning and Development

For assessing the Development and learning of children, there are a few important data according to the article: descriptive data, observation, and gathering of information related to the work done by the children. But few assessment methods such as descriptive data and collection of children’s work are time taking that may not help in accessing real-time learning of children. In regard to this, observation is an effective method for assessing the learning and development of a child as this method is an active acquisition of information from a primary source like a child.

Analysis of Article 2:

Analysis of a Statement of “how does children’s intellectual development benefit from increased time and space to play in the natural environment?”

As per the analysis of the article, it can be said that the development of a child is critical for society as it includes various aspects that help the Development of the children’s intellectual development benefit from increased time and space to play in the natural environment. According to this statement, it is important to spend time in nature for brain growth. The ability of problem solving and creativity are fostered via outdoor play, which is crucial for the Development of executive function. In addition to reducing symptoms of ADHD/ADD, children who spend time outside and play in nature have better focus and cognitive abilities. As the natural world changes, so do our understanding of it. Nature and natural items resonate with children because of the setting they live in, their constancy, and their resemblance to them (particularly animals) (Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, 2005). Animals’ dynamic character, especially the similarity of their responses to stimuli, enables infants to identify and assign thoughts and emotions to the animal. Evoking fundamental emotional reactions in youngsters, such as a strong sense of connection that helps them process information, is especially crucial since it encourages them to learn new things. Parents and guardians have an important role in developing children’s early environmental values, particularly those related to safety and nourishment during both direct and indirect encounters with nature. Even very young toddlers may learn to recognize, count, and interact correctly with many natural items. Adult-guided play programs may foster more autonomous, energetic, and spontaneous exploration of play among young children than unguided playgroups. This has the potential to enhance the long-term benefits of outdoor play for cognitive development and exploration.

Biophobia or ecophobia, a dread of the natural world and environmental difficulties, has increased as a consequence of a decrease in children’s direct contact with nature. “What is arising is a bizarre type of insanity,” writes David Sobel in his piece “Beyond Ecophobia.” Through electronic media, young people are linked to endangered creatures and ecosystems, yet they are separated from the world beyond their homes.” When children are brought into contact with alarming environmental concerns at a young age, they are not given a chance to form intimate personal ties with nature first. “If we want children to develop,” argues Sobel, “to become empowered, then let us enable them to love the world before we urge them to rescue it.” It has also been shown that early encounters with the natural world are associated with a good feeling of awe. If this manner of knowing is acknowledged and appreciated, it may serve as a source of delight and richness for the rest of one’s life, as well as an urge, or drive, for more study and exploration (Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, 2005). Unfortunately, the capacity to perceive the world as a source of amazement tends to deteriorate with time. This seems to be particularly true in Western societies, where children are taught to concentrate their learning on cognitive models rather than on first-hand explorations of the natural world in order to achieve objective understandings.”

Whenever children are playing outside of their home or in the external environment, they are creating games, investigating their surroundings, and enjoying sensations of self-sufficiency. As they work independently and with their peers to design games, solve issues, and put their ideas and answers into action, they are also cultivating their organizational abilities and decision-making skills, which they will need in the future (Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, 2005). As children play, they have a greater understanding of the need to set and adhering to rules.

References

Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, (2005). Helping Children Understand and Appreciate the Natural World. Case Article.

Handler & Epstein (2010). Nature Education in Preschool. Case Article.