The Power of Play and its impact on early childhood learning (Udemy.com)

Learn key techniques to help you understand why, when and how to empower and extend children's creative play

Created by: Ruth Churchill Dower

Produced in 2015

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What you will learn

  • Understand the difference between various play styles
  • Observe which are your childrens preferred play styles
  • Measure how different play styles enhance different areas of learning and development
  • Analyse which play styles are strongly evident, and which ones might need more support
  • Identify what to do if you spot obstacles to play in the setting
  • Benefit from four practical techniques to encourage your children to think and play more creatively

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Overall Score : 86 / 100

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Course Description

If youre asking any of the following questions:
How do I support and extend our childrens play?
When is it best to step in and play alongside, or just stay back and observe progress?
What types of play are our children engaging in?
Why do some children struggle to play and how can I help?
Then then this course is for you!
Our brand new course, the Power of Play, will give you the knowledge you need to support your children as well as you possibly can. We will illustrate techniques that will help you know when and how to support your childrens creative play. And well give you some new play ideas that are great fun to put into practice.
YOU WILL LEARN:
The difference between various play stylesHow play impacts on early learning and developmentHow to observe which are your childrens preferred play stylesHow to identify if children need encouragement in other types of playWhat to do if you spot obstacles to play in the settingFour practical techniques to encourage your children to think and play more creativelyWho this course is for:
This course is ideal for Early Years Teachers or Educators Foundation Stage Heads, Early Years Practitioners, Childminders, Home Educators and early childhood development students

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Instructor Details

Ruth Churchill Dower

As Director of the award winning training network in the cultural and education sectors, Ruth Churchill Dower established Earlyarts in 2002 and scaled it up to have a national footprint in 2009. Ruth had so many calls to take her creative training further afield that, in 2013 we decided to officially become an international training company, helping early years and primary leaders to achieve the highest standards in teaching and learning by building a team of inspiring, passionate and highly skilled teachers.
Our vision over the next ten years is to enable hundreds of educators to embed creative approaches to teaching and learning, that help young children achieve outstanding results across the whole curriculum and fulfil their incredible potential.
Ruth is a prolific writer and media commentator, bringing insight and debate to key issues in creative early education through her training, writing, speaking and consultancy.
In 2009, Ruth won the Ogunte Womens Social Leadership Awards for her work in building Earlyarts to make real change happen in young childrens lives. Ruth also works closely with Baroness Estelle Morris of Yardley (former UK Secretary of State for Education 2001, and Minister for the Arts 2002) on leadership development, and with renowned educational guru, Sir Ken Robinson, both of whom are th

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By Eileen Murphy on 11/25/2020

Yes, I'm very interested in using the observation tool

By Julianna Walton on 11/5/2020

Very helpful

By Annette Mathieson on 11/2/2020

To improve knowledge and identify areas were the children may need extra help.

By Hilal Kbra Sargn on 10/11/2020

amazing teacher

By Romana Mujtaba on 10/3/2020

It is giving me more insight into the different types of play for a child. it hasnt said anything about group play or sharing , spending time Playing with each other, yet.

By Louise McHugh on 10/1/2020

yes i'm finding it interesting so far

By Jaynae Dillas on 9/21/2020

learning children free flow play techniques

By Alema Nasim on 9/18/2020

So far this course seems quite interesting and relevant to what I expected to learn. It is good to know different types of play and observe children on the basis of this. This will help me evaluate kids and develop activities that can help improve concentration level of children.

By Danielle Kim Payne on 9/3/2020

Yes, so far the course has been well presented and informative.

By Linz N on 9/1/2020

it's very useful for me as an early childhood educator.

By Dhammika Kaluhendiwela on 8/27/2020

Enjoyed every moment.

By Nelmari Claassens on 8/19/2020

This was such a helpful course. The resources are amazing. Thank you.