Approaches to play and Learning

Approaches to play and Learning

For this assignment, you will use your own state’s Early Learning Guidelines/Standards to write developmental goals for the children in the videos below.

Step 1 - Research: Using your own state’s Early Learning Guidelines/Standards find the section devoted to Approaches to Play and Learning. If your state does not have Early Learning Guidelines/Standards or doesn't have information specific to Approaches to Play and Learning, you can use this link to find one that does.

EARLY LEARNING STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES

You may also use the following learning goals as provided in the North Carolina Foundations of Early Learning and Development (p.29):

Approaches to Play and Learning Goals:

1. Children show curiosity and express interest in the world around them.

2. Children actively seek to understand the world around them.

3. Children engage in increasingly complex play.

4. Children demonstrate creativity, imagination, and inventiveness.

5. Children are willing to try new and challenging experiences.

6. Children use a variety of strategies to solve problems.

7. Children demonstrate initiative.

8. Children maintain attentiveness and focus.

9. Children persist at challenging activities.

Once you had a chance to read about the learning domains, you will need to summarize the overall domain Approaches to Play and Learning. as well as describe each sub-domain.

Step 2 - View the Videatives: Go to the Videatives Streaming Service and watch one video clip per age group (infants, toddlers, twos, threes, fours, and fives).

Login with the following credentials: Password and Username is rasmussen

For each video (6 total) use the goals/standards in your state’s Early Learning Guidelines/Standards(see above step 1). Answer the following:

1. Provide title of video

2. Write a brief observation of what you witness in the video

3. Identify the approach to play and learning goals that the child(ren) were exhibiting. If there is more than one, please include all you witness. Describe how you know.

4. Choose one goal and write one learning objective that would match what you saw happening in the video to facilitate reaching the chosen goal.

Your assignment should be between 1-2 pages long and use section headers to organize. Include an APA formatted title and reference page with a link to your state’s Early Learning Guidelines/Standards used in this assignment.