Lifelong Learn Promotes Learning Through Play For Caregivers In Early Childcare Training
By: Seo5 Consulting
Submitted: 2011-06-21 08:30:15 | Word Count: 557
Children love to play, and it would only make sense that they would learn best doing what they love most. Learning though play is a relatively modern approach to teaching, and more early childcare training programs are offering this approach to a child's learning as a staple in teaching methods. Early childhood training courses and workshops promote learning through play because it is becoming more apparent through scientific research and observation that children learn best through play. Through play children develop life-long learning skills that enhance and enrich later academic skills in the formal educational system.
Examples of Learning through Play
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There are many companies taking advantage of the breakthrough in the concept of "learning through play," and vastly increasing their revenue. Parents see learning through play as a means to entertain their children but not mindlessly through television or video games. Learning while engaged in a physical or mental challenge develops skills earlier in life, and sets the stage for an association with learning and fun. This develops quick learners, and children who happily absorb information, and always want to learn more.
Currently in Canada there is the sports program, "Sportball" for children as young as sixteen months. By playing sports at such a young age children can quickly develop their hand-eye coordination, and learn social skills by interacting in groups. Parents participate and assist their babies with their developing skills, watching them progress, while creating a bonding experience. More childhood professionals are using physical activity outside of gym class to develop social skills and body awareness. This differs from the older, reading and transcribing methods from the past.
Music lessons at a young age have been proven to develop multiple skills in young children. In the past children were not exposed to musical instruments until they were eleven or twelve years old, and some children did not have music programming in elementary school at all. Children are now listening to music in the womb, and start taking lessons when they are two to three years old. They use instruments to explore and experiment with musical concepts such as volume, tone, rhythm, or speed, and play sing-a-long games to learn new skills.
Children have an uncanny ability to retain information, and learning a second or third language from a young age is no exception. Early programming should include teaching languages to young children through games such as puzzles, books, props and group or individual activities. Learning a second language is becoming more important in the future of job retention, with more diversified urban cities, and an increased need to travel abroad for work.
Learning Through Play Courses and Workshops
Lifelong Learn offers early childcare training through a variety of mediums such as books, workshops, presentations and seminars. The company believes that young children learn best through play, and have provided early childhood organizations, schools and educational institutions with programs and resources to assist with the development of learning, through their researched and proven teaching methods. For more information on early childhood training visit, Lifelonglearn.
Author Resource:-
Lifelong Learn, lead by expert childcare educator, Dr. Ingrid Crowther specializes in early childhood education by providing consulting services, custom workshops, adult and teacher education. Lifelong Learn also provides education texts and publications for various childhood education stages. For more information please visit www.lifelonglearn.com.
