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Enabling, Engaging Environments for Learning through Play
Linda Burgar Early Years Development Officer
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An effective, enabling environment for independent learners
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Activity based set up
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Storage & access to resources
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Open ended resources
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Simple materials facilitate deeper-level play as they invite participation, engage all a child’s senses, and fuel imagination.
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Thinking of “aesthetic” as being the opposite of “anaesthetic”, a shutting down of the senses may help with appraising the environment in a richer way How Learning Happens
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The home corner
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The home corner
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Shed a little light
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Where did all the overhead projectors go?
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Mirror mirror
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Fairy lights, not just for Christmas
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Curiosity
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” –William Butler Yeats “I am neither very clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious!” Albert Einstein
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Imagination
Why is imagination so important? Imagination is the basis of all creative activity – the way in which the brain retrieves previous experiences & creatively reworks them to generate new proposals and new behaviours – to change objects into new things and see things in new ways Imagination enables the ‘possibility thinking’ essential for innovation
“if you want people to build ships don’t send them down to the wood to chop trees , teach them to yearn for the immensity of the sea”
The Little Prince
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Storytelling
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Natural Materials
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A lot of learning going on
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Fit for life
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As Managers, how do you provide for high quality play experiences in your setting?
The role of the adult • Facilitate an enabling environment • Provide open-ended sensory resources • Allow time and space for play • Observer • Role model/Responder
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Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them. If we attempt to control, manipulate or divert this process.. The independent scientist in them disappears John Holt
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“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing” Charles Schaefer
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“Investing in children’s play is one of the most important things we can do to improve children's health & wellbeing in Scotland” Sir Harry Burns, former Chief Medical Officer
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Play shapes our brains,
creates our competencies and ballasts our emotions