Reading the passage and selecting a spacific perspective, is quite challenging. Personally, I agree with both of the topics at hand, but each study has their own opinion mixed in. I believe it is important for a child to have an equil amount of both, play time, and time for orginized activities. A child needs to learn how to couaperate with out kids, and learn how to recive instructions. Which the organized activities aspect comes to play. A child also needs to know how to have fun, and learn how to freely express themselfs while they play. As in passage 1 states, "with creative play, children use familiar materials like clay, wood, or kitchen supplies." Which mean the childern are learning how to problem solve in new ways.
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.
This essay will explain both sides of the views and using critical thinking will uncover the real message the author intended to portray.
Wilson quotes Piaget in stating, “Play is the work of childhood, and how young people learn and develop schema about the world” (p.144). Especially for younger children, play is
The following essay is an attempt to critically compare and contrast these two approaches from various aspects, and deduce which one is more encompassing.
The book, Exploring Your role in Early Childhood Education, defines play as, “any activity that is freely chosen, meaningful, active, enjoyable, and open-ended.”(pg. 140) Play has many positive characteristics such as freedom to explore and create. Suppose when a child enters his/her classroom and has various self-selection activities available, the child can become engaged in something of interest specifically to that individual child. The book also states, “Play is active and is natural process of mentally and actively doing something.”(pg. 140) When children can act out or explore experiences they are having hands on experience and learning by actually doing. Without knowing it, children are practicing body movements as well as mental processing though acting imaginary games out.
The role of play in child development has been discussed in Penn’s text and has been shown in various class films. Firstly, I think it is important to acknowledge how important play is to a child’s development. Penn (2014) argues that “play is central to contemporary understanding of childhood, but it was not always so” (p.134). This shows how Penn agrees that play is an important aspect of child development, however decades ago this may not have been true. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) has internationally agreed rights and one of the rights under participation rights is play. Penn (2014) states “to play, and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts” (p.131). This shows how every child has the right to play,
...ctive. Play is an essential learning tool and one that must not be ignored within the classroom. It is a catalyst to help children develop socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively. It is not only an important part of a child’s development as a pupil but also a child’s development as an individual.
The article states Play time is important for kids because, it increases original thinking and emotinal health as well.
Based in Tomlinson’s article, select two of the ‘understandings’ she describes in the article and explain how you either agree or disagree with each of them. Cite specific examples from your own experience which confirms or disconfirms what she is stating in those understandings.
Many people support scheduled activities with the belief that it will teach important charactar traits such as commitment, teamwork and dedication. This is most likely true, but the implication that children who do not participate in these activities do not obtain those very same traits is simply false. All interactions with other children and adults will teach social cues and values that will allow for a sense of responsibility and obligation to fufill the expectations set each individual. The difference is in whether the children feel obligated to do something because an adult or set of rules told them, as they would learn in sports, music lessons, or scout meetings, or if these children feel obligated to be productive and complete something because they themselves want to or because its the right thing to do. This ability to self-motivate and create one's moral code is something that can only be brought about by having free time to not only play but also to make mistakes and learn from
As children are young they like to use their imagination which they will use in creative play. Organized activities don't require much or no immagination at all. Many will argue and say that organized activitie skills will be required at a young age too. I disagree because, as we get older we start doing more organized activities and participating on teams. The skills that they help devolop are needed more when we are older and are going to find jobs and have to move out and be responsible adults. We can agree organized activities skills are needed but not at such a young age. This is why I believe as children they should be offered more creative play
As children mature, it is important that they aquire skills and characteristics that will benefit them along the way. Organized activities help young adults delevop positive attitudes about themselves and others. Although creative play is also important, ensuring that children participate in organized activities is essential for healthy growth. Programs such as music lessons, sports teams, and group games create a sense of belonging for children.
Creative play is important to childrens everyday life. It can help devolop social skills, increase your imagination, and also learn to make your own decisions.There are many reasons on why creative play is important for your little ones, but these are the reasons I chose.
Holistic development of young children is the key determination and through play they are able to survive and become physically healthy, able to learn, and emotionally secure and into where they progress into responsible and productive adults with positive reinforcements in the future. When there are societal issues that are barriers such as “technology, childhood obesity, culture, etc.” (Gaston, A, Module 1, Unit 1, 2016), children are then unable to revel in freedom of movement in where play is adventurous and brings out positive behavior. “Play supports the holistic development through the development of intellectual, emotions, socially, physical, creative and spiritual” (Gaston, A, Module 1, Unit 2, 2016), signifying that holistic development is an important factor to be aware of as the child grows. An example would be when in Workshop 1 of Social and Cognitive Styles of Play, we had to play in the given activity for the time being and observe our members and distinguish what kind of cognitive play it was. And one of the assigned question to
Creative Arts in early childhood education refers to children’s participation in a variety of activities that engage their minds, bodies and senses (Sinclair, Jeanneret & O’Toole, 2012; Kearns, 2017); to inspire all children with the opportunity for creative and imaginative expression. Duffy (2006) and Sinclair et al. (2012) state that creativity is the process where children use their imagination to problem solve, develop new ideas, independence and flexibility to accomplish tasks. Furthermore, when educators foster creativity, they are assisting children in making meaning through play and developing their growing capacity to communicate, collaborate and think critically to meet the demands of life in the 21st century (Duffy, 2006; Korn-Bursztyn, 2012; Sinclair et al., 2012).