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4th Biennial Jolyn Beeman Memorial Lecture Series
Play in a Stressful World
April 2, 2004Madison, Wisconsin
Mary L. Peters
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PLAYEvery Day!
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What do we want to create
together?
What refusals have I
postponed?
What is my contribution to
the current problem?
What am I willing to commit?
What price am I willing to
pay?
Be Friend.Do Your Work.Play Every Day.
MLP Classroom Rules
loving.working.playing.
Elkind: “Thanks for the Memories article
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PLAY = Personal Experiential Value
• Having fun
• Being outdoors
• Choosing freely
• Not working
• Pretending
• Enacting fantasy
• Drama
• Playing games
Elkind: “Thanks for the Memory” article(from Brian Sutton Smith)
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PLAY
• Enjoyment
• Pleasure for its own sake• “Here and now”
Elkind: “Thanks for the Memory” article
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Developmentally Appropriate Practices
1. Universal
2. Individual
3. Contextual
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Responsiveness
• Knowledge of child developmentUNIVERSALS
• Relationship with individualsINDIVIDUAL
• Respect for culture and communityCONTEXTUAL
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Children need to know
1. The world is a safe place
2. Their needs will be met
3. They will be cared for and protected by adults in their world
The Hurried Child p. 105
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Reflect
• What do you do to give a sense of reliability and predictability to a child’s day?
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Reflect
• How do you help children feel good about themselves?
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Reflect
• What do you do to support secure relationships?
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Reflect
• How do you help children develop a sense that success is possible?
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Reflect
• How do you honor spontaneous play?
allow model
observe enjoy33
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Reflect
A sense of initiative• How do you give children time to explore
and investigate?
• How do you provide a responsive environment?
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Children need
• Opportunities to interact as equals from a base of reciprocal needs and interests.
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Reflect
•How do you provide shared experiences?
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Children need
“Family is a school of human relations in which children learn to live within society”
School is a family in which children learn to live within society.
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Supporting REAL learning
• Class size
• Continuous flow of activity
• True individualization
Involve children
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Reflect
•How do you
support
real learning?
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Involve children through approaches that are
Responsive
Cooperative
Constructive
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Reflect
What competes with play?
• In the child’s home
• In your setting
• In the larger context of society
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Play is the most important
discipline!
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Children need time.
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Reflect
How do you allow…
•Personal expression
•Aesthetic perspective
•Imagination219
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“Childhood is the most basic human right of
children.”
PLAY is the most basic right of life.
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Reflect
• How do you protect children from information overload?
• How do you protect children from emotional overload?
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Protect the child’s right
to play!
Assert your right
to play!
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Consider
Something you are currently learning to do…
How is this NOT play?
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Remembering childhood phrases
• Come out to play…
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Consider
Think of a time
YOU played….
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Consider
Think of a time you observed a child in
joyful play….
Play first!
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What do we want to create
together?
What refusals have I postponed?
What is my contribution to the current problem?
What am I willing to commit?
What price am I willing to pay?
From Peter Block The Answer to How is Yes
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4th Biennial Jolyn Beeman Memorial Lecture SeriesPlay in a Stressful World
April 2, 2004Madison, Wisconsin
Resources
Books:
• Elkind, D. 3rd ed. 2001. The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
• Block, P. 2002. The answer to how is yes: acting on what matters. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
Handout
• Elkind, D. 2002. Thanks for the memory: the lasting value of true play.
Mary L. Peters
Early Childhood Consultant – Special Education
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction