Understand the value of play in promoting children’s learning and development
Watch this video which was produced by Laser Learning TV. It shows good practice in allowing children’s play to flourish in a home based environment.Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Why play matters’ from Family Lives
- ‘Laser Reading Text: ‘Understanding how play develops’
- ‘Learning and developing through play’ from Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework
- ‘Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child’ from the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
- 'Inclusive play’ from the Sensory Trust
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'The importance of play'
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Play at different developmental stages'
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the icon to the left to access an additional presentation about the 16 different types of play.
- Click on the link to look at this article on Playful Communities which describes the benefits of play for children and the wider community.
- Read the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s ‘General Comment Number 7’ (2005) on ‘Implementing Child Rights in Early Childhood’. Click on the icon to the left.
- Click to read ‘ How do children learn to play? 6 styles of play in early childhood’ from the BBC. Psychologists and experts have identified a number of styles of play that children engage in, which are key parts of their development.
- Click on the link to the National Strategies Early Years document ‘Learning, Playing and Interacting: Good practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage’. Read the section ‘How children learn’ from page 8 to page 19 which covers adult led and child initiated and includes some case studies.
- Click on the link read an article on ‘Heuristic play – treasure baskets’, with ideas for contents and how to use the baskets.
- Click on the link to the Community Playthings website and their article on ‘Heuristic play’.
- Read this article on ‘Theory of Loose parts’ from Play Scotland, which includes illustrations of how children can use the resources.
- ‘All of Us: Inclusion checklist for settings’. Read this document which offers good practice for including disabled children and young people for childminders.
- This article on the La Petite Mama website examines ‘The benefits of balancing child-initiated and adult-led play’.
- Think And Challenge
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