Transcript The Role of the Adult in Promoting a Positive Climate

Planning for Learning
(through play)
P1 /P2 Teachers
Aims
• To raise awareness of the importance
of play in the context of learning
• To experience planning for learning
through play and play based activities
Rationale
‘The Northern Ireland Curriculum
aims to empower young people to
achieve their potential and to make
informed and responsible decisions
throughout their lives’
Big Picture Primary Curriculum
Quotes
‘ Play is the highest expression of human
development in childhood, for it alone is the free
expression of what is in a child's soul.’
Friedrich Froebel
‘Sometimes people forget that play is learning and
learning is play.’
Peter Dixon
Learning Through Play
Play;
• Develops the fundamental skills of literacy,
numeracy and oral communication
• Provides rich and varied contexts for
developing skills such as observing,
organising, recording, interpreting and
predicting
• Promotes positive attitudes to schools and
to learning
• Provides opportunities to work in a
practical way
Learning Through Play
• Provides opportunities for developing
movement and manipulative skills
• Develops natural curiosity and stimulates
imagination
• Provides opportunities for exploration,
investigation, problem solving and decision –
making
• Provides opportunities to develop
knowledge understanding and skills through
a range of contexts spanning all subjects in
the curriculum
Play is Important
• Play promotes children’s development, learning
creativity and independence
• Play keeps children healthy and active
– active children become active adults
• Play fosters social inclusion, it helps children
understand the people and places in their lives,
learn about their environment and develop a
sense of community.
Play is Important
• Play allows children to find out about
themselves their abilities and their
interests
• Play is therapeutic, it helps children
to deal with difficult or painful
circumstances, such as emotional
stress or medical treatments
• Play gives children the chance to let
off steam and have fun
How do we do it?
Choose Starting points based on
Plan Together
Curriculum requirements
What do already know?
Children’s interests/
experiences
What do we want to learn?
How will we go about this?
Seasonal/ global/topical events
Who/what can help us?
Media
Story/ music
How do we use our
findings?
Class visit/visitors
How will we tell other?
Artefacts
Demonstrate and Review Learning
How do we do it?
Identify Learning Activities That
Meet curriculum requirements
What have I/we found out?
What did I enjoy most?
Involve decision making and
problem solving
What did my friend find out?
Are practical and stimulating
What will I/we do next?
Promote ad challenge thinking
What might I/we done differently?
Allow children to draw
conclusions
How will I demonstrate my learning?
Allow children to present ideas
and demonstrate learning
Workshop
Planning for Learning
Planning for Play
Pause for thought
‘We do not stop playing because we
grow old. We grow old because we
stop playing.’
George Bernard Shaw
The Challenge
‘ The important thing is not so much
that every child should be taught but
that every child should be given the
wish to learn.’
John Lubbock