WHY PLAY MATTERS

Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming today.

We are going to talk about why play matters in childhood

and there are three major factors.

So what is play and why play matters and how we are going to implement?

Play based pedagogy in our classroom.

So let's first look at what is play. Most of people can recognize play when you see it.

Right? But how can you define play?

There are a lot of activities or experience, you can call it play.

But when you define it, it's hard to describe it this prescriptively.

So maybe it's better to look at some key characteristics of

play to have a better understanding of what is play.

So, the first key characteristics of play is uh,

it's always physically or mentally active for Children when they play,

Children use their body for movements or

they have to involve mental activity such as the dramatic play or play with words.

And play itself is pleasurable.

And Children will always focus on the process of play, not the end products of play.

And it's also meaningful for Children. It makes sense.

And it's yearly related to their real and meaningful experience.

Play is also symbolic. Play is not just what it is.

It's the thing they are playing is a symbol of something.

It means something else for them.

No,

in symbolic play,

Children can try and experiment the meaning Andrews of serious

life and try different ideas and feelings and relationship with others

and play is also voluntary. You cannot force the kids to play.

It's because it is intrinsically motivated play can be also adventurous and risky

and that's how that's some key characteristics of play.

But what's the policy the educational department say about play?

So here's the early years learning framework for Australia.

It is the first national framework to ensure

Children experience quality teaching and learning and play

provides opportunity two opportunities for Children to learn

as they discover they create improvise and imagine

play is the context for learning for difference of reasons.

And

and what about the modern theories about the play?

So the modern theories focus on how plain and developments connected.

It's explore and explain different aspects of Children child development

in order to understand how Children grow behave and think.

So today we are going to see three major uh

theories we are going to use in this presentation.

So the first one is a psychoanalyst IQ theory.

So in this theory play has an important

role in Children's emotional and social development.

Children create and control an environment

that normally they cannot control in real

life or so during this play they can gain pleasure and avoid paying

and play is a safe context for them to act

out their emotions and events socially unacceptable and aggressive impulses.

For developmental theory,

jean, P. R. J.

Proposed that Children's intellectual development matches

their play development at different age.

So he proposed three major plays a functional place,

symbolic play and games with rules and Children at different age.

And because of the developments they focus on different places.

and another one is a sociocultural theory. This theory views Children too.

They can construct knowledge actively through social

interaction and play allow Children to practice

skills and concepts they have previously learned

as well as providing uh new learning opportunities

and supportive guidance from adults can

create a scaffold for Children's learning,

essential for moving them to higher levels of cognitive development.

So that's what is play and why do we need to play?

Because play acts an important role in

younger Children in young Children's bring development,

physical and intellectual development.

So there are some rolls play some roles of play

for brain development.

Uh 12 from birth to three years is

a critical development period for brain development,

uh input from the environment and early experience allows in neural

to make connection and determine the development of neuropathy circles,

connections that are used repeatedly um often become permanent,

permanent while those that have little stimulation do not develop.

So play enhance the neural development and bring development

best developed best when Children experience loving relations and

play in a healthy and safe environment.

So play is very important for the brain development

and play also can help Children to develop, develop their language.

Children communicate with the peer using language, play with words,

reasons verses and talk to themselves as well.

So languages used to play

to imply, to negotiate in forms of problems,

ask questions etcetera and Children develop listening comprehension.

They understand what the words meaning and they speak

the words and they also developed their storytelling skills

and play is also very important for physical development development.

Children develop their coordination, balancing flexibility,

strength and endurance, so it's really good for their growth and fine motor skills.

Physical play

play can also help Children develop a physical

sense of selves and their sense of their

bodies and a sense of boundaries and imposed to control.

Physical activities are able to enhance cognitive

functions related to attention and memory,

Facilitating learning for later life.

And the playoffs play also helps the

development of later mathematics and literacy skills.

Psychoanalytic theory suggests that Children learn from their

social environment and through their social relationships.

So during play,

Children learn to socialize and interact with

others and they examine and refine their

learning in light of the feedback they

received from the environment and other people

play allow Children to learn to cooperate, imitate, share compromise,

nego negotiate and take turns etcetera.

And

play is also very important for their emotional skills.

Our Children learn to control and regulate

their own emotions and behavior through play.

Uh emotional regulation is the capacity to control and modulate emotions.

It includes the capacity to control and

direct emotional expression to maintain organized behavior

in the presence of strong emotions and to be guided by the emotional experience.

Such as a pretend play allows the expression of both positive and negative feelings

and they can practice and they can learn how to control their behavior through that

play is also very important for their mathematics skills and literacy skills.

Children develop a wide variety of mathematical understanding through place such

as the space quantity measurements and

Children informal understanding provides a foundation

for their formal mathematics learning later

and for the literary skill. Children explore the function of written language.

They learn to understand that letters, words, symbols,

uh signs, they have a purpose and they are meaningful.

They are not just uh the meaning of the word itself, it means something else.

And for example,

roleplay provides a context for the development of

literate skills in their real life situation.

So that's why play matters. And then let's see how we

implement play based petra ecology.

The EY LF states that Children's learning is the dynamic,

complex and holistic Children actively construct their

own understanding and contribute to others learning.

So, first, as an educator, we should build a welcoming environment

that the national coach of the National quality

standard required that physical environment should be safe,

clean and feed for all aspects of learning.

Uh, E Y

LF views Children as active to participants and

the decision maker in their learning and playing.

So according to the development theory,

physical environment should be designed to feed

Children's developmental stage according to their ages.

So when we designed the physical environment,

we should make it a welcoming and safe to let

give some powerful Children to design the physical environment.

And we also should be Children directed learning.

Educators provide large blocks of uninterrupted time for

free play to enable Children in deep learning,

because it takes time for Children to fully engage in learning play experience.

And we also should identify Children's and

interest and strength and be responsive,

Responsive.

We should skyfall to their learning when necessary

and during our practice,

we should we should also involve their social

and cultural backgrounds such as the the social,

the sociocultural theory values Children's social

and cultural backgrounds for their learning.

So educators should intentionally encourage Children's interaction

with peers and with more knowledgeable others and

Childrens and families and communities should also

be included in Children's learning and development.

So finally, we can see play.

So play is really important for their early years

and play is very important for Children's brain development,

cognitive social and emotional development.

Children learn best when they threw play in their early years. So eliminating

play from young Children's life in favor of formal academic learning

is really harmful for their overall health and well being.

Okay, Thank you

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