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2. Power of Play

3. OBJECTIVES • Define both the types and categories of play that are directly related to infant and toddler learning. • Describe the adult role as a facilitator of children’s play. • List the ways in which the environment and interest areas support an infant/toddler’s play and development in these domains: emotional, social, motor, language and cognitive.

4. TYPES OF PLAY • Unoccupied Behavior • Onlooker Play • Solitary Play • Parallel Play • Associative Play • Cooperative Play

5. FUNCTIONAL • Categories of Play-Functional • 1st 2 years of life • Interactions w/objects, people and language • EXAMPLE: Babies explore • EXAMPLE: Toddlers climb

6. SYMBOLIC • Categories of Play-Symbolic • Constructive Play • Use materials • EXAMPLE: “My House” • Dramatic Play • Imaginary roles • EXAMPLE: “Hello!”

7. PIAGET ASSIMILATION ACCOMMODATION

8. VYGOTSKY Zone of Proximal Development

9. Vygotsky Quote Play is an important vehicle for developing self-regulation as well as promoting language, cognition and social competence. ~Lev Vygotsky

10. PLAY IMPORTANCE • All development • Active/interactive • Opportunities • Differences • Repetition • Self-regulation • Brain development • Foundational skills • Social and moral • Emotional

11. Rogers Quote Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning. ~Fred Rogers

12. ADULT ROLE • Step back • Intervention • Time, space, materials • Not interrupting • Safety • Problem solving • Scaffolding • Observing

13. Plato Quote You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. ~Plato

14. SCENARIOS

15. ENVIRONMENT • Spacing • Touchable • Fine and gross motor • Soft and hard • Unique combinations • Amount and choices

16. COZY/BOOK • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

17. MANIPULATIVES • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

18. DRAMA • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

19. BLOCKS • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

20. ART • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

21. SENSORY/SCIENCE • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

22. MUSIC • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

23. INDOOR/ACTIVE • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

24. OUTDOOR/ACTIVE • EMOTIONAL • SOCIAL • MOTOR • LANGUAGE • COGNITIVE

25. Ackerman Quote Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning. ~ Diane Ackerman

26. EVALUATION

27. PD CERTIFICATE • This Professional Development session will appear on your PD History on the PA Key website within 2-4 weeks. • You will be able to print your certificate after we have received the Reflection Tool and Survey Monkey evaluation.

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