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Early Childhood Play Matters
What you will learn from this session:
Early Childhood Play Matters aims to equip early childhood educators with evidence and affirmation about the value of play. This session can be viewed as a stand alone professional development session or can be completed in conjunction with the sessions outlined in our Certification pathway. Our Certification pathway can assist teams choosing to implement a 2 year planning timeframe.
By attending Early Childhood Play Matters you will:
- Learn how quality learning environments and programs build children’s capacity for literacy, numeracy and rich language opportunities through hands on play and investigative learning.
- Build educator skills to scaffold and support children’s vocabulary, listening and comprehension skills, phonemic awareness, concepts of print and early literacy.
- Gain ideas about learning environments to develop early numeracy skills through scaffolding in rich engaging play environments and incorporating intentional teaching.
- Understand that relationships are the foundation for developing children’s social skills, through play and interactions with trusted adults, educators and peers.
- Recognise the importance of providing a holistic environment that promotes children’s social and emotional learning and the importance of positive, safe, secure and respectful relationships.
- Develop age appropriate strategies for attention, focus, working memory, perseverance and resilience.
- See examples and hear about fine and gross motor development through varied, well executed play based learning environments and experiences indoors and outdoors.
- Develop a pedagogical approach that is inclusive, developmentally authentic, culturally appropriate and considers demographic, economic and social factors.
- Learn about planning for and documenting children’s learning and development effectively.
Early Childhood Play Matters - Kathy Walker and Shona Bass
This session is based on the book Early Childhood Play Matters, by Kathy Walker (OAM) and Shona Bass. The cost of attending this event is $330 per registration (excl GST). The book Early Childhood Play Matters is not automatically included with your registration. If you would like to receive a copy of the book it is available for purchase when you register for this event, increasing the registration cost to $390 (excl GST). PLEASE NOTE: You DO NOT need to purchase the book Early Childhood Play Matters to attend this event.
Australian Professional Teaching Standards: APTS – 1.1, 3.7, 6.4,7.3 National Quality Standard: QA - 1, 3, 5, 6, 7
