Ms. De Lind heard that the average length of attention span for four-year-olds was about 5 minutes, so she planned her activities to be no longer than 10 minutes all day long. What would you anticipate as outcomes in children’s behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: lots of conflict and noise due to too many group transitions; low involvement and commitment of children because of the short time and probably little decision making; high fatigue of children and staff due to the rapid pace; other outcomes also possible
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