There have been countless arguements on whether or not organized activites are better than more creative activites. Creative activites giving them more of an opportunity to grow as a free thinker. And organized activities giving them more structure and a sence of responsibility. It has been said that creative activites let a child have a better opportunity to be an independent thinker and express themselves. That they learn leadership skills that can help them in later in life with jobs and careers. In games with more imagination, like plays, they get to put themselves in someone elses shoes and have a better understanding of that person. According to an adolescent expert, Janet Collins, organzied activities help children develop a healthier
Play is instrumental in the healthy development of children. The development of play throughout an individual life is essential in providing the necessary methods to foster growth and development in critical developmental areas. According to Davies (2011), play is instrumental in providing a bridge for the child to transition from a toddler with a limited capacity to understand the world into a child in the middle years who can think logically. Play is also important in fostering cognitive development, social development, language and communication, moral development, self-regulation, and sense identity.
Involving your child in sports is important part of growing up. There are several benefits to children playing sports. The child will learn how to make friends outside of school, church, and family. It will help develop self-esteem and physical skills. They discover what it means to be a member of a team, and how to win and lose with self-respect. Children also need to be active every day; exercise promotes growth and improves physical and emotional health. The Office of the Surgeon General states that active children are at less risk to high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease as well as many cancers (Office of the Surgeon General, January 11, 2007).
An Article by Dr. Leong and Dr. Bodrova (2016) stated that play is beneficial to children’s learning especially when it reaches a certain degree of complexity. When they engage in play activities most of their early years, they learn to delay gratification and to prioritize their goals and actions. They also learn to consider the perspectives and needs of other people and to represent things significantly to regulate their behavior and actions in a cautious, intentional way.
I was a pretty normal child. I like to play with friends and family. I would make up what I wanted to do and play house. I also liked to play supermarket. Librarian, and Doctor. I got to be whatever we wanted. It was all pretend though. As, I was watching the video’s for unit six, the video, Tales of Creativity and Play by Tim Brown reminded me of how I used to play. He talked about how we needed trust to play and trust to be creative. That makes sense. I usually only played with family. People how I trust. I played with people around my age. I think that was my trust to be creative, because people around my age would pretend with me. He mentioned exploration and building with your hands. As a child I loved to explore outside and would use my hands to make mud pies and so on. He also mentioned role play. I loved to role play, because I could do anything I wanted. As I grew up I realized it was a lot harder to be a whatever I wanted on the spur of the moment. One thing stuck though. That was my creativity.
All children play and it is something that most children do because they are having fun, but without realising children are developing and learning skills when they are engaged in play. Play helps stimulate the mind as it is practical and gives children the chance to explore and experience new situations. It can also ensure that children get to think by themselves and be spontaneous as they control their own play. Children get the chance to be creative and imaginative which develops independence for children. Play is vital for child development and helps children develop five main areas of development:
The American system of education is considered to be one of the most progressive in the world. One of the surveys on attitudes toward teaching around the world found that the United States is unique in its strong emphasis on "good teaching." My experience at State College has helped me to understand better how this system works, and what methods and techniques American teachers use to motivate their students for creative and active learning. However, I can also see that this system doesn’t work perfectly in every classroom. Reading Ernest Boyer’s article “Creativity in the Classroom” helped me with my understanding of the main problem that nowadays exists with the American college education system. According to the author, the problem is that teachers and students don’t see each other as one team doing the same business; therefore, in most classrooms the process of learning becomes a boring procedure instead of being mind-blowing. Moreover, reading this article, I could analyze the reasons of this problem that the author identifies through my own experiences at State College.
While playing, children are gaining creative skills for creative development, which enhances the ability of creativity, learning techniques, and academic success. The most important development is cognitive. This development is vital for school success. Cognitive development enables a child to solve problems, mentally plan, self-monitor, remember, and evaluate. (Isenburg & Jalongo, 2010)
Julie Fisher (1996) suggests that young children learn by ‘being active’, ‘organising their own learning experiences’, ‘using language’ and ‘interacting with others’. I would agree with this statement up to a point. However, she does not mention if the activities should be structured. While I agree that children will learn from being active through a process of trial and improvement, I believe that with older children it would be a lot more beneficial to give the child a structure build upon. For example, before I began this PCGE course, I used to train my local under eleven Gaelic Football team. Say for instance they had never played before and they turned up to training at 7:00 but the training was not until 7...
. Children can access to more activities in and out of school when they are more adults to help.
When children play sports, they learn teamwork. Since they play with a set of rules created by adults that must be strictly followed, the children must work together to figure out how to use these rules to their advantage in order to win the game. By doing this, children build a sense of fellowship, teamwork and eventual acomplishment when they win. They also learn that not everybody wins, so they mature by dealing with their defeat and instead finding a way to win next time. Other activities such as community service or Girl/Boy Scouts, not only build a sense of teamwork, but also a sense of acheivement. The main goal of community service and the scouts is to make your community better in some way, and to help those in need. Children learn that by these organized activities they are making a group of people or just one person happier, and that gives the child a sense of acomplishment. I personally was a Boy Scout, and to this day I am proud of it and I know that the activities I participated in and the skills I learnd at that age still help me to this
No organized Activities are not the way to go. Sure we can have them every now and then. But when I read this passage to me it seemed like jail. In the passage there is a part that say they get a better attitude I agree, but I disagree. Why you may ask because they will be controled all the time and have no freedom.
Organized activities teach children skills that they will need for the rest of their lives'. For example, to be on a sports team, it requires dedication and commitment. It teaches young children how to be on time and work within a group to achieve a common goal. Participation in group activities
This organisation provides educators with expected learning results and standards for all children. The EYLF and the Australian Curriculum (AC) have backed up the findings of this paper. On their part, EYLF recognises that resources may pose stereotypic identities and recommend that all educators should try analysing, discussing and giving recommendations on how this aspect can be reinforced (EYLF, 2009a, p. 28). The study by Marsh (2010) is connected to the EYLF perspective where the activities such as role-play allow children to explore and develop their identities and personalities (EYLF, 2009b, p. 21). As this paper had earlier drawn the significance of play in children development, it further affirms that children possess more creativity and originality when the outdoor environment is used to help in their learning. This comes to epitomise EYLF Outcome two, which states that children are supposed to be provided with a chance to get natural material usage within the environment (EYLF 2009b, p. 29). Additionally, it is proposed that popular culture resources be viewed with much concern, and therefore, it is the role of the educator to stretch out on children’s interests to ensure the scaffold children are learning (EYLF, 2009, p. 15).
“Play is not only inherently valuable as an enjoyable activity; it is also a process through which children learn. Play enhances problem solving ability and promotes opportunities to experiment with creative thought.” (Malone, Tranter). During play a child is able to learn through various activities. Play promotes problem solving skills and b...
... goal is for children to become productive citizens in the world. With this being said, it is easy to see why creativity in the classroom is essential to the development of the young child.