• Language - Increasing vocabulary, reading and writing skills. • Independence of thought - Discovering things for themselves. • Problem-solving – Being able to explore different solutions. • Physical Activity - Participating in activities that encourage movement. Different types of creative activity • Solitary – An activity where a child works alone, perhaps when a child makes a model.
Education Professionals view on creative learning is broadly understood to be characterised by * Questioning and challenging * Making connections and seeing relationships * Envisaging what may happen * Exploring ideas and keeping options open * Critically reflecting on ideas, actions and outcomes Creativity is about helping children to explore different ways to express themselves through a range of arts and crafts such as drawing, painting, sticking, making things, chalking, music and creative movement, dance and role play. Creativity consists of traditional creative arts and developing the imagination and imaginative play through various activities such as role play and small world play. Creativity involves exploring emotions and expressions thus the focus of creativity in this term is only partially about creating an end product and
Creative learning is about helping children develop imaginative thinking through an exploration of materials, objects and problem-solving skills, such as construction and ICT and crafts. It is about how children are actively involved in their own learning and ability to make choices and decisions. It is also about giving children opportunities to make connections between different areas and to relate to them. Some creative learning activities may be goal orientated
CYPOP7 1.1 Creative learning is where children use the range of materials and play opportunities around them, provided by adults. A child’s curiosity will lead them to explore the resources. From this the child will learn through play, using imagination, new and unusual ideas (originality), a variety of different ideas (productivity), problem solving and experimenting. Creativity it helps children to express feeling and ideas about people objects and events. This could be in the form of painting, drawing, collage, music, dance, woodwork, model making, sand and water with small world scenarios and miniature garden scenarios.
C8- Analyse the importance of play in children’s learning, giving reasons why play should be included in planning. It is important to include play in a child’s learning and experience, this is because it enables them to explore and learn new things independently and through a way in which they understand. From play they are able to express their feelings and thoughts on the subject through interpreting the situation, events, or experience they’ve seen. It’s a good way of allowing children their own space to make choices of what, when, and who they play with, giving them many opportunities to build on relationships which is a good aspect in enhancing their communication skills and ability to work with others and co-operate efficiently. Play is a ‘’free flow’’ experience which enables a child to progress at their own pace.
Spending time going through the learning activities and seeing how children have responded to a certain task or question, can really help change it for future activities. It is also important to look back at the learning objects so you can measure what the children have learned. It is important to have clear objectives at the planning stage, in order to evaluate whether pupils have achieved them after the lesson. If children have rushed through the activity and then looked bored then it would be obvious that the task was a bit too easy and not really suitable or beneficial for that group. Therefore you would need to try and make it more engaging and stimulating, perhaps by making it more difficult or time-consuming so the students really have to work to complete it.
The most important role that play can have is to help children to be active, make choices and practice actions to mastery. They should have experience with a wide variety of content (art, music, language, science, math, social relations) because each is important for the development of a complex and integrated brain. Play that links sensori-motor, cognitive, and social-emotional experiences provides an ideal setting from brain development. According to Montessori, the essential dimensions of play are: Voluntary, enjoyable, purposeful and spontaneous Creativity expanded using problem solving skills, social skills, language skills and physical skills Helps expand on new ideas Helps the child to adapt socially Helps to thwart emotional problems If play is the work of the child, toys are the tools. Through toys, children learn about their world, themselves, and others.
This make's the child very happy and like to continue or add more to what they have done. It also makes them feel good about themselves. Praises are very important when working with children because it also helps the develop their morals. Negative behaviour will be ignored as long as there is no health and safety risk. A tantrum will be ignored by the teachers but if a child is expressing negative behaviour such as hitting, they will then be told to stop in a firm voice (not shouting) Vygotsky - Adults should provide a play based curriculum and engage with children in play activities to extend their learning.
Frustration at their own inability to communicate effectively can lead to behavioural problems. •Social – Talking out loud helps children to work through ideas, feelings and frustrations. In doing this children start to empathise and see other peoples point of view, and gradually become able to think about other people’s needs and feelings. This helps children to develop socially acceptable behaviour and build their confidence. Communicating with other children or adults in social situations helps children to understand what is expected of them and to enjoy participating.
When we take care of children, we are also helping the human species find the truth and understand the world. (Gopnik et al. 1999: 211) This chapter begins by looking at what elements need to be in place to ensure that children develop to their full potential and have opportunities to explore and extend all their capacities and capabilities. It will further explore the generalized impact on children’s development of social breakdown because of war and conflict – looking in detail at the developmental processes of early childhood, and noting what happens when that progress is interrupted. The major theories of play will be outlined, with the emphasis here on play not only as a necessary feature of childhood and essential component of development, but also as a means to regain ‘lost childhoods’.