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DESCRIPTION:
Exercise your mirth muscles, let your hair down, and allow your inner child to
come out and play! Join Sharron as she shares a cornucopia of practical and
playful ideas; including music, movement and creative activities to help you
live, love, laugh, and learn with children. Discover how to create a nourishing
environment where children and adults can flourish and reach their potential.
OBJECTIVES/LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Explore the vision of "childhood" not "school" as the framework of an early
childhood program.
- Learn how to coordinate activities and experiences that nurture both socialemotional
development and the intellect.
- Discover play's benefits in building the foundation for life-long learning.
BENEFIT TO CONFEREES & CHILDREN:
Attendees will experience the power of laughter and play and discover how
essential it is to all learning and creativity. Participants will be asked to retrieve
memories of their own play as young children and remember what childhood
fun was like. Lots of play at an early age enables children to develop the wide,
integrated foundation required for future academic success. It also will develop
in our children a love of learning. With close observation, teachers can refocus,
see the value of childhood, and remember why they wanted to be a teacher.
SUMMARY:
With the growing emphasis on standards, outcomes, and accountability in early
childhood education, teachers are more likely to pay attention to issues that
seem more closely related to academics and "school readiness." We need to
remember what children haven't forgotten--play is the brain's favorite way of
learning. Piaget and constructivist theory tells us that young children learn most
things by playing with objects and people. In play children build their
understandings of the world and develop their bodies, minds, imagination,
language, and social skills. The teacher's role, then, is to set the stage for play
and observe for interests, skills, and emerging understandings. Grasping the
significance of play helps us see inside the child's world and appreciate the
impact playing has on development and learning. How we teach is more
important than what we teach. Children need playful adults in their lives,
teachers who will model the importance of play to living.
AUDIO/VISUAL:
Power for ipod and speaker system
Wireless lavaliere microphone
FORMAT:
Lecture/ Demonstration/ Involvement
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