EED278 critical thinking lesson 2

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Play based learning is not just about having fun; it is a way for children to learn through exploration, experimentation, and discovery. I feel as if I agree with all three levels of play at some point, but If I had to choose, I will choose guided play. I chose this type of play because with teacher guidance children learn through content while playing freely. Guided play within my classroom allows me to maximize learning and support all children as active learners. Guided play provides opportunities for children to explore social roles and work to develop cooperative and self-regulatory skills. I would use guided play within my classroom any chance that I got. An educator observing a child stacking unit block can pose purposeful activity related questions and can support certain learning goals. I feel as if done right this approach will help children build on skills and knowledge they have already acquired. Guided play relies heavily on classroom collaboration, therefore building social skills among children. The setting in which I would use guide play would be in my own older three-year-old classroom. This level of play is appropriate for me and my classroom because my children are very active and hungry for knowledge. Guided play provides scaffolding to boost language, development, and learning. Guided play is play with a purpose. If a child’s goal is to identify shapes I would set up and help adapt activities throughout my classroom with manipulatives, pictures and activities related to shapes anywhere throughout the classroom. A benefit to guided play is that it allows children to learn new competencies and the resiliency needed to face future challenges. One of the challenges to guided play is that it requires more preparation and planning than free play. To incorporate guided play within my classroom I would work to engage in spontaneous play in intentional ways. I would work to build on children’s interests and play needs by planning adult guided learning opportunities aimed at building the content knowledge and skills associated with children’s activities and inviting children into new collaborative and playful experiences. Guided play creates optimal learning environments and benefits are strongest when the child is engaged, actively involved, having fun, iterating, and playing with themes meaningful to them. Guided play is a teaching method that combines the benefits of free play and structured learning. Guided play attempts to strike a balance between unstructured play and adult-led structured play. It involves the teacher scaffolding learning and posing prompts to students to help them learn, while still allowing children to take the lead during play. Guided play is great for math, science, language, and computational thinking. It invites children’s active engagement, free exploration, and direction of play, but also has clear learning goals so that play behaviors are limited in useful ways and distraction is reduced. Guided play can be an effective teaching strategy for more traditional forms of learning such as mathematics, reading, and critical thinking. Play also improves young children’s health and well-being and provides them with opportunities to explore social roles.

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