Learning is Playful Group Goals

Learning Is Playful

In our first session we discussed our goals for successfully defining Learning is Playful.

 

1. Why Play is Important for all Ages:

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” -O. Fred Donaldson

-Play builds community

-Develops social skills

-Develops physical skills

-Allows for practice of real life situations

 

2. Being a Playful Educator:

 

-Go with the flow:

Allow for flexibility in lesson plans and in daily schedule.  Being a playful educator means responding to students needs and being willing to change course when needed.

 

– Be messy

 

-Noncompetitive play/games to build community

3. Goal-Oriented Play:

 

– assessing process versus product

 

– multiple ways to find the solution

 

– deliberate lessons with room for flexibility and self-correcting