1. Unit 7 Play and Learning in Children’s Education

2. Aim Understand how to support children’s play

3. Objectives  To describe the benefits of children's play  To explain the roll of the adult in children's play.  To evaluate the importance of the adult role

4. Recap Lesson 1 Write down the five different areas of learning on your post it note and place on the white board. (P.I.L.E.S) Physical Intellectual Language Emotional Social

5. Task 1 Individual On a post it note write down what “Play allows children to do?”

6. Take Responsibility Learn concepts Explore their environment Value themselves and Others Exercise their minds Make choices Exercise their bodies Express themselves Play allows children to?

7. Task 3 Group In your groups read the hand out 6.3 ‘Going to Paint’ Answer questions 1,2,3,4. Prepare to feed back to the class. You have 10 minutes.

8. Task 3 Answers 14-16 9-10 5-6

9. Task 4 Group Should I step in? Read the case study given to you (A or B) then answer the questions on the sheet. Feed back to the class your answers. –Should the adult intervene? –Give reasons why or why not. –Describe how the adult could/should intervene –Explain what the adult could do to allow play to continue and to help the children develop their ideas further –What vocabulary could the adult introduce during the activity?

10. Answer Case Study A

11. Answer Case Study B

12. Task 5 Group What is the role of the adult? In your groups using the paper given to you draw a mind map showing the role of the adult in children's play.

13. Task 4 Answers Provide a safe environment Supervision Enough time for play Encourage learning Plan Meet children's interests Provide space Role of the adult

14. Adult Role indoor & outdoor environment Meet the Needs Of all children Provide appropriate resources Encourage learning Give children choices Meet Children's interests planobserve Give enough Time for play Provide space Provide support supervisepraise Provide A Safe environment

15. Task 6 Individual Complete hand out 6.5 Supervising Activities Write the play activities under the appropriate category you think they fit into. Answer questions 1,2,3. Feed back to the class. You have 10 minutes

16. Answers Task 6 1.Describe what you would do if you were supervising this activity? 2.Explain how this activity was, or was not, suitable. 3.How could you improve the children’s participation?

17. Lesson Recap Write down the different types of play and give an example of each. –Physical – Riding a bike –Intellectual – Jigsaw –Language – Reading a book –Emotional – Circle time –Social – Games