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play-based, hands-on curriculum, each day provides opportunities to learn about reading, writing, and math through real, meaningful situations.
Through these significant experiences, children begin to understand the number, quantity, size, and other mathematical concepts.
A play based curriculum presents kids opportunities throughout the day to cultivate the ability to think abstractly by understanding real objects using their senses.
Emotional Development
In any group of young children asked to do a writing task some will succeed, and some will be less successful. The successful children may actually comprehend the assignment or may just have guessed correctly. The less successful ones often learn to think of themselves as failures, and eventually may give up on studies or themselves.
Parents Sometimes Report Children Have Overanxious Actions Such As Headaches Or Refusal To Get On The Bus. These Kids Have Determined At An Early Age That School Can Be An Emotionally Traumatic Place
Physical Development
Children are born with a need for activity. They play as naturally as they breathe including running, jumping, climbing, and crawling. When we insist that kids sit still and perform what they may consider a trivial task like a worksheet, we force kids into a position unsuited with their developmental needs and abilities.
On the other hand, if we allow kids to decide their task from among suitable offerings, we may see them as young as three years old spend a half an hour to an hour completely absorbed in building with blocks, hand painting, or engaged in storytelling. When adults arrange for developmentally appropriate activities for kids, they will learn and work hard.
Social Development
Teachers usually state, regarding worksheets, to do your own work and dont look at others papers. There are few situations in the real adult world in which we cant ask a work colleague or friend for help with an undertaking or their thoughts on a problem.
Leaders in business and industry say they need employees who can work in teams to solve problems; however, we ask kids to do what are tough tasks and make them suffer through them solo.
These foundations for social interactions are built in the early years of childrens lives.
This is the time when we find out the roles we may play, the rules for getting along in the world, the consequences for not abiding by rules, and how to form friendships.
The only way to figure out these concepts is to connect actively with others. When we do not allow children enough time to complete basic social tasks, the stage is set for social problems later on.
Developmentally Appropriate Activities
There are many active and far more enjoyable ways for children to begin understanding words and numbers than via worksheets.
A classroom with a developmentally suitable curriculum is a print rich environment. The hallways are enveloped with labels identifying objects, stories kids have read, lists they have produced, drawings they have painted, and charts of projects.
However, there are downsides to these procedures.
Often demonstrations will give students the central idea of how something works, but place less importance on detail.
For children hoping to attain the good grades, they may need to study their subject more to develop a deeper comprehension of it. Students may feel after learning the fundamentals they do not need to do any more studying, which could negatively impact their grades.
Parents and teachers need to go through these exercises with worksheets and hands-on learning:
Is the worksheet the center of the lesson, or is it just a tool for obtaining thinking? If the educational activity is designed around a period of direct training followed by a block of time during which the students finish worksheets, it is likely that your kids are not entirely thinking or engaged in deep and meaningful ways. Figure out how you can spice it up.
Does the worksheet ask kids to complete comprehension questions from a story? You need to find meaningful ways to determine their understanding.
Does the worksheet expect children to recall and list truthful information about science or social studies? Figure out ways children can demonstrate what they understand. Can they make a drawing? Can they build a clay structure? There are endless avenues.
Could the worksheet be substituted by technology? In this day and age, kids have access to smartphones and computers. Mastering technology can prepare a child for work in the real world.
Is there an experience that could replace the worksheet? Instead of completing a worksheet about the formation of a butterfly, could children go into the woods and locate butterflies in the forest? Could they keep a journal and describe what the butterfly is doing over the course of five minutes?
Does the worksheet ask students to draw or label something? You should let them make a complete drawing instead. They are far more likely to recall the appendages of a tree if they draw them rather than tagging a worksheet of clip art.
Is the worksheet full of route math problems and facts? Math and vocabulary worksheets are necessary for different stages of development. Could you try to balance these worksheets with stations and games? They are socially and physically engaging.
The question is not whether we should make use of worksheets in our teaching, but it should be Are you working with children in the most real, captivating learning experience at this time?
Too Often Worksheets Turn Into The Curriculum Instead Of A Carefully Selected Tool Used To Support The Curriculum.
Demonstrating Progress
Worksheets and workbooks should be utilized in schools only when children are older and developmentally ready to profit from them.
Our challenge is to encourage parents and others that in a play based, curriculum children are learning valuable knowledge, skills, and attitudes that will help them be successful in school and later life.
If we fail to demonstrate a students progress with worksheets, how do we provide evidence of learning? Below are a few examples:
Portfolios: A portfolio is a compilation of a childs work; they can include the following:
Observations: Audio and video tape can capture kids doing activities.
Photos: Photos of activities in the classroom should be shown around the school. They give illustrative proof to adults of kids working and learning in an electrifying and fertile atmosphere.
Work Samples: You should embrace keeping samples of the work of students, and they should have a say in what is included. Each sample should be dated to emphasize the progress throughout the year.
Checklists: These can be used to record the skill development of children. Growth in skills like handwriting, letter understanding, and number recognition can be listed and checked off as children understand them.
Proper Worksheets: Children can improve imagination and wonder from appropriate worksheets that emphasize this development.
Subject Labels: Parents can understand what their kids are learning by signs in learning areas detailing the value of work in that subject. Signs assist disbelievers in witnessing what is happening as children work at play.
Parent Bulletins: Teachers can send home recurring parent newsletters which detail the activities kids are doing at school and the teachers goals and objectives. When parents comprehend the importance of developmentally suitable activities, they will feel convinced that their children are growing and learning, not just playing.
There Is A Time And Place For Worksheets And A Time And Place For Hands-On Learning And Do It Yourself Projects; Combining These Methods Will Develop A Well-Rounded Child
Wrapping up, monitor your kids worksheets and what they contain.
Which ones are valuable and worth keeping? Which ones could be replaced with something that focuses more on imagination and wonder?
If you can trade out a few boring worksheets for something more imaginative, you have taken a step in the right direction.
