Tanya Stepney Collaboration with Parents and Community ECE 313/ Brandy O’Leary December 12, 2011 Midterm Paper During the preschool years there is tremendous growth and development in all areas of development, slow but steady. Extraordinary motor advancements, coordination, speed, strength, and tireless energy are all displayed during the preschool physical and motor development. Through cognitive development, the preschool child become quite sophisticated in their thinking, think problems through prior to acting, and engage in new reasoning. Symbolically, preschool children have high imagination, tell elaborate stories, interpret and reinvent their lives in drawing and writing, and create fanciful world through make believe. Finally, during the preschool years, many children become quite independent and social interacting with the world around them through games and play activities.
Teuila Seumanutafa TASK ONE: Explain the value of play and exploration. The purpose of this task is to explain the value of children’s play and exploration. In doing this it helps us define what we think the value of children’s play is, and what others think the value of play is. “Just by watching young children it is easy to see that play is often stimulation and rewarding, and that they get a great deal of emotional satisfaction from playing” (Sheidan, 1999). As a mother and teacher I have always been fascinated with how children learn.
She smile when she sees the teacher and her classmates, and like very much interact with the roommates, but especially with Rachel. Dineris is laughed in the classroom, she likes magazines and play with puzzles for about 5-10 minutes. The details during this observation, she shows interact and play without any conflict. These 20 minutes she was all the time smiling in the classroom with every one. Dineris is fast and she can move from one side to another.
Play is the work of children – through play and interaction, children learn how to walk, reach, talk, listen, read, and write. In all societies there are typical behaviours of emergent and beginning readers, and how each of these behaviours relates to reading and writing. “For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does ‘just for fun’ and things that are ‘educational.’ The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play”. ~ Penelope Leach (psychologist and author). The child see that communication is fun and a part of play and so learns that language is fun, and plays and works to acquire literacy ands numeracy.
D1 Eyfs Early Years Foundation Stage (birth to five years old) Schools and early years providers have to follow a structure of learning, development and care for children from birth to five years old. This is called the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and it enables your child to learn through a range of activities. The EYFS ensures: children learn through play, providers work closely with parents, you are kept up to date on your child’s progress and the welfare, learning and all-round development of children with different backgrounds and levels of ability, including those with special educational needs and disabilities. National curriculum The National Curriculum sets out the stages and core subjects your child will be taught during their time at school. Children aged five to 16 in 'maintained' or state schools must be taught the National Curriculum.
Dramatic / Imaginary Play Resources Report As I have learnt through TAFE, the early years of childhood is the most vital part in the child’s life to learn everything, try out new tasks and learn how to socialize with others. These important tasks are learnt through play and exploring the environment. Young children learn by imagining and doing things as they play throughout the day. Pretend/Imaginary play is an important for children’s social and emotional development as they learn how to take turns, share, interact with others and how to problem solve. According to “ Importance of Pretend play/ Scholastic.com” Imaginary play builds language skills, cognitive skills and social and emotional skills.
Children’s play is a skill in which the therapists have mastered due to their use of play on a daily basis. Furthermore, the play environment is one in which they feel safe and comfortable. As adults use verbal communication as their direct way of self-expression, children use play as their form self-expression. I had once read somewhere that “toys are a child’s words and play is their language.” I believe that is an excellent description of a child’s world. Play therapists believe that the best way to diagnosis and treat children’s emotional and behavioral issues is to engage children in imaginary play, as children play out their daily life experiences through their most utilized and comfortable form of self-expression, which is play.
Audrey Manning CHFD 210 Kathleen Mangeri 02/16/13 This paper focuses on how children learn through moral and social development. Children learn and explore new and different things in the environment they are in every day. Early educational skills for children help to expand their minds. We as parents contribute to helping our children learn in everyday life. Teachers have theoretical knowledge of cognitive development and how it applies to social and moral developmental learning.
(Katz & Chard, 2000, p. 2)” The two essential elements of the project approach are “child-centered activities” and “social reconstruction”. Child-centered is means that enables children to follow their interests and fascinations. That is spontaneous learning method that they can learn about practical information and a theoretical framework through the process of developing a project in group. This learning-method leading developmental objectives: physical, cognitive and language, affective and social and aesthetic development (Guide to the Pre-primary Curriculum,2006, p.17). Phases 1: Beginning a project Children are leading learners but no only received information.
How Young Learners Learn Introduction This assignment aims to examine how young learners develop and learn. The main section of this assignment will present an overview of several theories of child development and learning that appear to have had a profound impact on educational perspectives in the last two centuries. Brewster, Ellis and Girard (2002) stress that every young learner is a unique individual with different learning needs. The ideal learning environment, it seems, would be one which presents the young learner with the opportunity to discover their own learning style, interests and preferences which would lead to independence and success. The overall aim of the assignment is to highlight various theoretical standpoints on learning and first and second language acquisition and the highlight the links between them.