Inspired By Reggio Emilia Reflecting On Imaginary Play

Creating Learning Environments that Foster Imaginary Play
What you'll learn
Be able to articulate to other adults the importance of imaginary play and cognitive development.
Recognize the difference between different types of children's play.
Create learning environments that lend themselves to imaginary play.
Recognizing and documenting children's learning through their playful and creative activities.
Follow classrooms as they encourage children's storytelling using open-ended materials.
Requirements
This is a second tier course designed for educators working towards their associate or master degree in Early Childhood Education.
Please consider INSPIRED BY REGGIO EMILIA: A New Beginning before enrolling in this course.
Description
3 Hours and 45 Minutes of ContentTARGET AUDIENCE:Higher education faculty and students, early childhood educators, preschools, K-Grade 3 school administration, parents and home schools networks.Celebrating over 16,000 students at Udemy, we release this great course describing the ways learning is driven through imaginary play. It seems every generation of teachers rediscovers the powerful learning that occurs through imaginary play. Vygotsky, over 200 year ago, discovered that it was in this imaginary play space and time that children expand their vocabularies and stretch their social skills. If we are teaching to the whole child, we should be paying attention and creating learning environments that offer and promote imaginary play.IN THIS COURSE WE PROVIDE:1. A concrete example of how imaginary play builds relationships within the classroom, across the school community and between families and the classrooms. Join us for a discussion about at tiny woodland elf living on a preschool playground.2. A review of the contributions to understanding fantasy or imaginary play by author and educator, Vivian Gussin Paley. Paley authored over a dozen books documenting the learning of children through imaginary play and storytelling.3. A quick review of types of play typical throughout child development, followed by a detailed focus on cooperative play. Cooperative play is the highest form of play, often represented through the imaginary. Classrooms that promote and support imaginary play find that children's social-emotional, language and literacy flourish. As social-emotional development, language and literacy are at the heart of our curriculum, we suggest that promoting and supporting Cooperative Play should be a skillset every educator must cultivate. Appropriately in this section, we discuss the landmark work of Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong, Tools of the Mind.4. Lastly, we look at an often overlooked space for imaginary play - the outdoor classroom. Extending classroom learning outdoors results in unique educational opportunities. While science and art activities may be routinely offered as outdoor experiences, providing opportunities for children to enter into imaginary play as an outdoor experience is often overlooked. One of the most important elements in developing literacy skills are adults who stimulate children's interest, scaffold experiences, and respond to children's earnest initial attempts to communicate through verbal stories, drawings and print. In this final section, we share the creation of a Fairy Village on our playground and the learning driven by children's imaginary world of fairies.RESOURCE MATERIALS:Includes book reviews, article reviews, PDF article attachments. Article reviews are provided as a means to foster discussion within teaching teams and learning groups within higher education coursework.
Overview
Section 1: Welcome!
Lecture 1 The Importance of Imaginary Play
Lecture 2 Course Overview and Resources
Section 2: Reflecting on Imaginary Play: The Legend of Notty Elf
Lecture 3 Introducing Notty Elf
Lecture 4 Notty Elf: Where Imaginary Play Checks All the Boxes
Lecture 5 Imaginary Learning Environments: Teaching Across the Curriculum
Lecture 6 Download Teaching Guide: The Legend of Notty Elf
Section 3: Discovering and Observing Different Types of Play
Lecture 7 Learning through Play
Lecture 8 Types of Play
Lecture 9 Cooperative Play: Going to the Vet
Lecture 10 Emergent Curriculum in Practice
Lecture 11 Learning About Worms: Observing and Documenting
Section 4: A Tribute to Vivian Paley
Lecture 12 Introduction to the Teachings of Vivian Paley
Lecture 13 A Child's Work
Lecture 14 Social Cognition: Putting Research into Practice
Lecture 15 Download Paley Book List
Lecture 16 Download Article: A Conversation with Vivian Gussin Paley
Lecture 17 Article Review: A Conversation with Vivian Gussin Paley
Lecture 18 A Strong Image of the Child
Lecture 19 Fantasy, Fairness, and Friendship
Lecture 20 The Last Word
Section 5: A Tribute to Elena Bodrova and Deborah Leong
Lecture 21 Lessons from Vygotsky: Part I
Lecture 22 What Is Tools of the Mind?
Lecture 23 Lessons from Vygotsky: Part II
Lecture 24 What is Executive Function?
Lecture 25 Article Review: Let's Fly Away!
Lecture 26 Article Review: Scaffolding Imaginary Play
Lecture 27 Article Review: Documentation and Assessment of Imaginary Play
Lecture 28 Article Review: Introduction to Carlina Rinaldi
Lecture 29 Article Review: The Relationship Between Documentation and Assessment
Lecture 30 On Review
Section 6: The Hundred Languages of Children: Life within the Atelier
Lecture 31 The Role of the Atelierista - Part I
Lecture 32 The Role of the Atelierista - Part II
Lecture 33 Monsters in the Atelier
Lecture 34 Exploring the Color Wheel
Lecture 35 Harry Potter Airlines
Lecture 36 It's All Happening At the Zoo
Section 7: Interactive Storytelling with Open-Ended Materials
Lecture 37 Reflecting Our Values: Six Traits of Progressive Education
Lecture 38 Download Resource Articles
Lecture 39 Book Review: Stick and Stone
Lecture 40 Interactive Storytelling
Lecture 41 Storytelling in the Block Center
Lecture 42 Fish Tales
Lecture 43 Building on Children's Stories
Lecture 44 Free Book Offer
Early childhood educators PreK-Grade 3, higher education programs interested in putting research into practice, parents and home school networks.,Home schooling programs and parents that desire an authentic childhood for their children.


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