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The following blog entries create a portfolio that I hope will give you an insight into my understandings and opinions of the following areas of early childhood education today within Australia, its importance for our nation’s future and that of our entire civilisation. I will discuss what I think play based learning and why we should use it to educate our children, look at and compare several Early Childhood Curriculums, how, as teachers we represent, construct and assess knowledge of and for our students and the emerging challenges for play based learning within our society. I will also share my views and opinions on teachers in today’s society, what we are and what we do.
Please feel free to post your comments as your views may give me a different perspective to ponder and reflect upon.
I agree with your blog. I Have been teaching grades one and two for three years now and worked in a daycare centre for 9 years prior therefore I understand the importance of play based learning. I believe our life experiences shape who we are or will become. Children reenact and model others and their own experiences through play which can create prior knowledge and life skills. I feel these play based experiences give children a head start in education as they are the building blocks and development of foundation knowledge to learning more in depth concepts both academically and socially. I believe play based learning is an excellent way to deliver curriculum but should be used with a variety of other methods especially after their prep year. In my classroom I use many different ways to deliver learning experiences and engage the students such as play based, ICT's, modeling, group construction, independent learning and investigation.
ReplyDeleteRegards Nikita Maiden