When children are playing it is essential that you allow them to explore their interests and ensure they have the space and time to do so. Children will be drawn to specific activities. Children will learn and develop more when they are discovering and exploring their interests as they will be more involved and willing to take part. When planning activities in a setting staff should work on activities that cover the children’s areas of interests enabling them to learn and develop
It is also important to consider the needs of all the children when doing your planning to ensure that the activities are suitable.
5.1: Explain the importance of play to children’s learning and development and the need for an inclusive approach.
may react to other children and also their future experiences. Activities within the setting need to be
It important to always have activities that are developmentally appropriate or can be altered to be appropriate for the child
There is a part in the handbook, learning and teaching play. Play involves the holistic child, from the physical, psychological, intellectual, social, and emotional. Either by working independently or group work. Play is now a big part of the curriculum as doesn’t just help with the teaching side, but it also gives the children a way to relax and be themselves, and to express their feelings or what is going on in their life through play. (http://ccea.org.uk accessed on 29th November 2016)
I enjoyed my classroom and the age of children that I worked with, and used play based activity for overall development of the children. I found that children are very innocent and lovely. From this work environment, I have learned that understanding children’s interest and skills and providing them age appropriate materials are very important. Teaching them according to their interest is beneficial for the children to learn quickly.
Planning for individual children’s needs is the easy way of observing children, easy of looking at of children’s practice, listening to children to find out how the children is developing his/herself, what the children like to do and what children is learning through his/her play and the experiences of offer. It is very important that parents and practitioners sharing what they know about these things so that they can agree whether the child’s development is at the expected stage. They can also agree if the resources such as toys and equipment are suitable for the child and to focus them on what to offer in coming to support the child to develop new interests, learn new skills and get new knowledge. The observations of children are extremely important, because every single child has a unique set of abilities and talents and
Children can learn through play how to take turns, problem solving, decision making and many more, childrenâ€TMs imagination is
Whether children should take part in organized activities or engage in creative and imaginative play is arguable on both fronts. Creative play allows for more independent thinking and gives a child the ability to engage in activities that they choose to do, and learn how to solve their own problems, rather than activities they are directed to do, which hinders their ability to solve problems on their own. Organized activities allow children to enage in activities in which they would play a part in a larger group, which allows for a child to feel more involved and important. Although both sides are arguable, allowing a child to take time to spend on creative play will allow for the individual to learn about themselves and their personal interests.
There are many values and principles which underpin children and young people 's play and learning including children 's views this means hearing the children 's voice, thoughts, view and opinions. Listening to what the children have to say because it may have an effect on the environment which will make it more child like challenging. By having a stimulating environment it will enable the children to explore investigate take risks as well as playing and learning. Children and young people will achieve better if they are involved in the planning explaining what they would like. The Welsh Assembly Government believes that "play is so critically important to all children in the development of their physical, social, mental, emotional and
For the child to learn effectively, I would plan and prepare the environment for learning because young children learn through play, it is essential that the materials provided is meaningful and the play activities support the development and enhance the learning of the child. To enhance their social materials or to help them through difficult social experiences As an educator, I should also facilitate to every child needs so they would have the opportunity to experience and learn We need to be also an observer which allows us to observe which child have mastered and which skills need additional reinforcement. My duty would be to support children by providing “scaffolding” framework for learning, and when my children are engaged in play throughout the room, I should stay tuned into their needs lookout for “teachable moments,” and be ready to help children develop new skills that build on existing
children to play together puts them in situations that allow their minds to meet new challenges and
There are many different key issues to consider when creating an enabling environment where the children can play and learn. The key issues to consider are the role of the adult, the stages and types of play, if the play is structured or unstructured, if the play is planned or free choice. The framework and guidelines to follow are important to consider too. I believe that the two main key issues to consider here are the role of the adult and if the play is structured or unstructured. I have chosen these two key issues as I feel they are most relevant and important to what I am discussing.
Well organized play engage children in effective ways to learn about themselves, other people and the world around them (Bickart, Colker, Dodge, & Heroman, 2010). Play provides meaningful hands-on learning experiences that allow children to learn various aspects of life if appropriate play activities are arranged. Quality learning environments encourages children’s engagement, curiosity, problem solving, independent exploration and appropriate risk taking behaviour and provides them better opportunities for in-depth and meaningful interactions between educators and children.
It is essential to include all the levels of the Activity Pyramid in lesson plans because it supports children’s learning. Because children learn best when they engage in their chosen activity and hands-on experiences, an exploratory activity plays huge role in their learning. However, in order to promote a balanced development of a child, the child need to explore the learning opportunities that are not their prefer activities as well.