Play is a child's work
June 18th 2009 22:48
Play is a child’s work
I began working in the field of Early Childhood Education professionally in 1975. Since that time a great deal of time and money has been invested by many people in an effort to learn how children learn best. Researchers and teachers alike have worked to help children learn and grow. Today we have a great deal more knowledge about the how the human brain grows and develops. We know that young children are mostly experiential learners. Opportunities to explore their environment allows theme to discover concepts for themselves. Those children who are lucky enough to have adults around them who provide safe, developmentally appropriate and stimulating environments get a wonderful opportunity to start growing into the individual they were meant to be. In all this time it seems that we have not done a good job of educating the decision makers as to what children need to grow and develop.
Again I have had the opportunity to read another resource through my work that highlights an article written entitled “Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School.” (Source: Bulletin of the World Association of Early Childhood Educators (WAECE), No. 413, May 22, 2009) The evidence of new research that kindergarten children are given little or no time to play in school, then we wonder why we have an increased issue with behavior problems.
The following address will provide a summary of this research. If you are a parent of young children it is my hope that you make the effort to be involved in your child’s school, get to know the teacher and really know how the classroom operates. Build a relationship with the teacher so that your child sees you as a team that has his success as a common goal.
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I began working in the field of Early Childhood Education professionally in 1975. Since that time a great deal of time and money has been invested by many people in an effort to learn how children learn best. Researchers and teachers alike have worked to help children learn and grow. Today we have a great deal more knowledge about the how the human brain grows and develops. We know that young children are mostly experiential learners. Opportunities to explore their environment allows theme to discover concepts for themselves. Those children who are lucky enough to have adults around them who provide safe, developmentally appropriate and stimulating environments get a wonderful opportunity to start growing into the individual they were meant to be. In all this time it seems that we have not done a good job of educating the decision makers as to what children need to grow and develop.
Again I have had the opportunity to read another resource through my work that highlights an article written entitled “Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School.” (Source: Bulletin of the World Association of Early Childhood Educators (WAECE), No. 413, May 22, 2009) The evidence of new research that kindergarten children are given little or no time to play in school, then we wonder why we have an increased issue with behavior problems.
The following address will provide a summary of this research. If you are a parent of young children it is my hope that you make the effort to be involved in your child’s school, get to know the teacher and really know how the classroom operates. Build a relationship with the teacher so that your child sees you as a team that has his success as a common goal.
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