The Importance Of Play In Early Childhood Education

There was so much to learn about play and learning. I learned that play is very crucial to the learning and the development of a child. I knew the basics of the way we teach the children and how we are supposed to address and ask questions to the little ones to learn and be able to excel in their leaning. The understanding of why we need to is a different reason. To understand that the early childhood education plays a big role in the lives of these very young children. There is evidence that states that there is short and long term gains in cognitive, language, and the social-emotional development of the children. ( http://www.academia.edu/). I never realized that play contributes to these developments in so many ways. We as preschooler

programs can contribute to each child’s physical, social, emotional and cognitive development by this we include language, perception, reasoning and memory.

( http://www.academia.edu/). The feeling of knowing that everything we do in class will build on each child’s academic skills makes me have a deeper understanding of why my jobs so important. I always knew it was but now I have a bigger picture. We need to be flexible and look at the child what they need and how we are going integrate it into our lesson plans and being able to see how the room being set up can help the child to explore so much more and have more curiosity in how things work and how they work and why they work. There should be so much put into the centers in each part of your room that way it will increase the child’s curiosity and they will start talking more so they can continue to learn. Children are always wanting to know more. The room needs to be inviting so the children are able to see that if you are interested in the things the child is learning than the child will want more from you and they want more understanding. Knowing that play allows the child to be repetitive with new skills they have learned in the classroom they will keep on doing the same thing till they learn that they can accomplish more. Every day I work with children seeing the way the interact and play and see who is playing with others and who is not playing with

others. Everything from the room labels and pictures, and dual languages makes every child want to know more about everything. It causes them to experiment and try to do new things, and make things a little more complexed. The children will start advancing in their learning and their knowledge of how things work in the classroom, Children need to have an assortment of things to keep them talking and using more vocabulary and more The way we do schedules in our classroom we are expected to follow it and stay on it. This helps in children’s self-regulation, and helps them to follow directions, and be able to understand that everything we do there is a reason. Understanding that a good schedule balances the active and the quiet, and the indoor and the outdoor learning experiences. The schedule helps children to stay at a good pace for the child’s participation. It also helps in the child’s attention span. It helps the children to become truly motivated Children need to be able to pick and carry out their plans. I work at head start and I never understood a lot of why we have teacher and child initiated activities and I did not the importance of it till I took this class.