Every parent wants the best for their child especially in terms of their learning and it is the teacher’s job to accomplish this and provide this to children. That is what an early childhood day care in Australia wants to achieve and practise. The kinder, Wesley Vale Primary school comes to an attention of lacking in having an interaction with the children individually. The article mentions how the kinder comes to a solution to develop a program of what they call, ‘Project-based learning’. They built this idea from looking back to Reggio Emilia and Kathy Walker’s approach to early childhood learning. An approach of Kathy Walker (2013) is to get the children to pick a topic they have interest in and skilfully relate this to numeracy and literacy.
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In their centre, they mention that the inspiration to create the ‘Project-based learning’ program is through looking back to the approach of Reggio Emilia and Kathy Walker about the early years learning. The article, states that they recognise that the main point of the children’s learning in their whole entire lives is in the early years of 4-5 years of age. That is why Devlin believes “by the time they enter kindergarten they are learning experts” and to achieve this is by deeply engaging the children to the real world. Devlin wants the children to gain skills from “watching, listening, playing, exploring and experimenting” (p 6). The Ministry of Education (1996) can support this argument because they acknowledge in the Te Whariki book, “Children learn through a combination of imagination and logic” (p 21). The article also consist a question for every new paragraph/topic that may be concerning the parents or guardian of the child then answers. One of them is “How will my child learn to read and write if he is allowed to play all the time?” Devin then answers by explaining that through play-based learning is to direct the children from learning with purpose. This means using …show more content…
The statements in the article show the presence of how the school got the idea, awareness of concerns, plans and examples. These points make the article effective for the readers to understand and comprehend. I may have pointed a concern of understanding a point thoroughly, but this does not affect too much on how well the author addresses the topic of how effective is play-based learning as a tool to support children’s development in the school and establish a genuine interest in
In their centre, they mention that the inspiration to create the ‘Project-based learning’ program is through looking back to the approach of Reggio Emilia and Kathy Walker about the early years learning. The article, states that they recognise that the main point of the children’s learning in their whole entire lives is in the early years of 4-5 years of age. That is why Devlin believes “by the time they enter kindergarten they are learning experts” and to achieve this is by deeply engaging the children to the real world. Devlin wants the children to gain skills from “watching, listening, playing, exploring and experimenting” (p 6). The Ministry of Education (1996) can support this argument because they acknowledge in the Te Whariki book, “Children learn through a combination of imagination and logic” (p 21). The article also consist a question for every new paragraph/topic that may be concerning the parents or guardian of the child then answers. One of them is “How will my child learn to read and write if he is allowed to play all the time?” Devin then answers by explaining that through play-based learning is to direct the children from learning with purpose. This means using …show more content…
The statements in the article show the presence of how the school got the idea, awareness of concerns, plans and examples. These points make the article effective for the readers to understand and comprehend. I may have pointed a concern of understanding a point thoroughly, but this does not affect too much on how well the author addresses the topic of how effective is play-based learning as a tool to support children’s development in the school and establish a genuine interest in