This document discusses how play is a valuable tool for teaching and learning. It helps children develop important skills like communication, problem solving, and socialization. Play also benefits teachers by helping them teach and evaluate their students' progress. The insights gained from observing children at play allow teachers and parents to understand individual needs and create personalized education plans. The document advocates for using play in educational activities because it engages children and facilitates learning.

1. Play: Tool for Teaching
and Learning
By: Rachael McGraw
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2. What makes play valuable?
 Play is a tool that has the potential to help children
learn skills in various fields of study.
 Through play children develop skills including but
not limited to communication, problem solving,
mathematics, language development and
socialization.
 Not only does play help children learn, it also helps
teachers teach and evaluate the progress of their
students.

3. The benefits of play are
enormous.

4. How can play help
children learn?
 By using play as a tool, teachers can help their
students learn as well as they themselves learn.
 Children learn better when they engage and are
actively participating.
 By aiming activities toward playing, children are
more likely to participate and furthermore reap the
benefits of play as an educational experience.

5. Through play children
create there sense of self.

6. Perceptions of Play
 Opinions and perceptions of play differ among
cultures in eastern countries and western countries.
Many factors are taken into consideration when
examining the perceptions of the parents on the
concept of play. These factors include, but are not
limited to: socio-economic status, education levels,
rural residency versus urban residency, and the size
of the family (Yawkey).

7. Play Environments contribute to the
quality of play you are promoting.

8. Observations and insights gathered
through play can help plan for the
individual child.
 The insights gathered from observing children or a child
playing will allow teachers and parents to understand
personal needs of children socially and mentally that will
help them create a personalized plan for education that
will benefit the children as a whole or the individual
child in a substantial way.
 Personalized education for children that defines and
identifies the weaknesses of the child while harnessing
the strengths will always provide for an efficient use of
the child and teachers time and improve on meeting
educational standards and goals.

9. Play is supposed to be fun
and creative.

10. Some questions and ideas to
ponder about play and
outcomes.
 Without play would there be any inventors, artists,
builders, scientists or discovery?
 That question I feel represents how important play
is to a child, and even the world.
 Also could a more play filled childhood have
helped prevent some of the terrible atrocities
committed by dictators and militant cult leaders like
Hitler and David Koresh?
 Play helps children build social skills and
compassion for others ideals and ways of life.

11. Discover the value of play
for yourself.

12. Did somebody say lets
play?