help please.. the role of adults in play.
 

PLEASE COULD SOMEBODY HELP......

The role of the adult in facilitating and encouraging different types of play and learning????

Also need a construction activity for 3-7 years and 7-12 years
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A symbolic or imaginitive activity for 12-16 year old

The role of an adult in facilitating and encouraging;

facilitating by providing the right environment, resources (materials and practitioners) and props.


Encouraging different types of play and learning:

Lots of positive praise will help children to feel good about themselves and empower them to try out things themselves, to help develop those much needed skills of being able to interact with others.
This will help lead them to iniate play and involve others (if they wish to).


You can encourage children to develop their skills by scaffolding - helping them to extend their skills and enabling them to do something they aren't able to do on their own i.e. scissor skills or when using play dough tubes where they squeeze the play dough through. You may show them how to do both these things to help them achieve this.

You may have many children of different ages and abilities playing in one area. The older children can be good role models for the younger ones - they will show younger ones how a relationship is built on trust, respect, waiting their turn by sharing - in converstaion as well as everything else.

You may help children share by playing board games (simple and not too complicated) so they learn to wait their turn. If they are very young and/or need to build up their concentration and waiting, you can always play with just that child, before playing with yet another child ( and more waiting time) to build their skills up.

Give children plenty of time to play and develop skills, rather than keep interupting or stopping them for whatever reason.

I hope ideas these will get you started as there are lots more.

An easy contruction activity for 3-7 year olds could be junk gluing with lots of materials, boxes, glue, paints, etc.

7-12 years
how about paper mache? either a model such as a volcano, so they can do an experiment with it afterwards or paper mache masks - African or whatever? or over a balloon to model an animal etc


Imaginative play for 12-16 years:

How about them doing a storyboard on an A2 pad? Ask them to do a storyboard on a 'pop' video they'd like?

Or to make or an advert for a product they can think up of?

What about fashion design? using card cut outs (which they have to make) and designing, drawing, and then making with scraps of material, ribbon, foil, crepe papers etc?

Or if you have a cam corder perhaps they can film an advert they make up?


I only go up as far as 5 years old - so perhaps these are rubbish ideas!!

I've actually finished this session now. You have been a great help thankyou very much. Your ideas were great.