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Be able to lead and support play opportunities / Be able to review how planned play opportunities contribute to own practice.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text: 'Lead, support, and review'
- ‘Early years practice’ by Elaine Hallet, published by Sage Publications Ltd, 2016
- ‘The role of adults in children’s play’ by Play Wales
- ‘Assessing and scaffolding make believe play’ by National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAYEC)
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s first presentation: ‘Lead and support play opportunities’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation: ‘Review play opportunities’.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- 'Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years: A guide for early years practitioners and leaders, students and parents' by Rosemary Rodger (Routledge 3rd Edition 2012) Borrow a copy of this from your local library or see if your setting has a copy.
- Click on the icon to the left to open a copy of 'The Playwork Primer' by Penny Wilson. Read from Liminal Spaces to the end of Secret Spaces (pages 12 to 23).As you read, make notes about how you can use the information to help you to work with children of different abilities and interests to create a variety of play spaces to meet both their wants and their needs.
- Answer the following questions:How do you establish a dialogue with parents in your early years setting about the importance of play in their child's learning and development?How do you build upon the child's home play experiences?How do you include parents in children's play in the early years?
- Click on the link to read The National Strategies document ‘Learning, Playing and Interacting: Good Practice in the EYFS’ produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (now the Department for Education). Although this document was published in 2009, much of the information is still relevant today.
- Write a reflective account to show how you involve children in planning and how you ensure that this meets their developmental needs.
- Take a recent planned play opportunity and link it to the EYFS Development Matters Statements. What did the children achieve / get from this opportunity? What could you do next?
- Think And Challenge
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