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Outdoor Free Play in
Early Childhood Education
Who is involved?
The Management: Organization
The Staff: Teachers
The Children
What is ‘free play’?Each child is individual and unique, having needs, gifts, difficulties and desires that are his own. What can be done so that each child is able to grow and learn according to his personal rhythm? What can be done so that each one feels respected, perceived as he is, and welcomed in his uniqueness and at the same time stimulated to evolve?
A simple method - though not always easy to implement - both effective and risky, which brings enthusiasm to children yet is at times disturbing for adults, is free play.
Free Play Requirements
Freedom
Time
Space
A variety of Activities
What is the importance of free play?
“It is necessary to be outside for our brains to be stimulated from the flow of sound, light, shapes and colors that nature provides...
Especially between the ages of 3-6, when the energy flow in the human brain is at its greatest.” ~ By David Ingvar, Professor of Neurophysiology, Brain Researcher.
...The outdoor pedagogical classroom values, activates and uses other abilities rather than the verbal. I call this outdoor pedagogy for good health.” Nina Nelson,
What is the Role of Adults in free Play?
Organisation
clarity of what each person’s role is and of what they are expected to do
an ability to work constructively with other colleagues
replenishing during the day children leading or supporting the process
well-organised, labelled resources which are easily accessible to all
repairing and replacing equipment regularly
budgetary responsibility.
Teachers Play an Important Role in Outdoor Free Play :How Teachers can be facilitators in Free Play?
Planning
effective planning supports children’s learning and development it requires an awareness of the children’s needs it requires good, careful observation staff need to be clear about who has responsibility in the planning
process staff need to be clear about their role in the planning process planning can and does involve children
planning should be flexible because children’s needs and ideas will change.
Teachers Play an Important Role in Outdoor Free Play :How Teachers can be facilitators in Free Play?
Observing children • learn about their needs • learn about their dispositions • track their progress • become aware of progressive or regressive behaviour
• evaluate how effective the provision is
• find out about child-to-child interactions • find out about child-to-adult interactions
• create evidence for planning, resourcing and organising.
TEACHER STRATEGIES
Responder Interpreter
Risk-Taker Provoker
Documenter Scribe
Researcher Learning Partner
Problem Solver Observer
Questioner Listener
Creator Evaluator Communicator
Pictorial Evidential Records of Teachers’ being Facilitators in Outdoor Free Play
CHILDREN OUTDOOR FREE PLAY BENEFITS
Play can provide:
Opportunities to take calculated risks.
Opportunities to use and to hear different sounds
Opportunities for stories and books to be read or to be read to.
Play can provide:
Opportunities to pick up the rhythm of poetry and verse
Opportunities to make friends, sustain friendships and make connections with others
Opportunities to become cognitively aware.
CHILDREN OUTDOOR FREE PLAY BENEFITS
Play can provide:
Opportunities to pick up the rhythm of poetry and verse
Opportunities to make friends, sustain friendships and make connections with others
Opportunities to become cognitively aware.
CHILDREN OUTDOOR FREE PLAY BENEFITS
Play can provide:
Opportunities for children to explore their creativity and to be creative
Opportunities to be inventive
Opportunities for and outlets to support emotional well-being
Play can provide:
Outlets for aggression and for the legitimate release of emotions
Opportunities to make believe
Opportunities for physical skills to be developed
An opportunity for the child to function in his own world rather than the world of an adult
CHILDREN OUTDOOR FREE PLAY BENEFITS
SELF MOTIVATED N CHALLENGED STAFF & ORGANIZATION TOWARDS POSITIVE TEAMWORK in OUTDOOR ‘FEE PLAY’
We will be the Trendsetters towards our children becoming
the FUTURE’S WHOLESTIC CHILD
