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Preparation of the environment in daycare centers at home.

September 28, 2023
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Make your home into a safe multi-age learning environment for a group of 8 children at the same time.

You can create a high-quality infant-toddler environment by planning and creating spaces that support development, participation, and overall well-being. For example, a comfortable chair that is spacious enough for a nursing adult to meet the needs of the infants and toddlers in your care.

Design spaces for babies and young children that guarantee safety and promote health, developed, positive relationships, where you can implement activities in different areas.

Blocks area, manipulative area, music area, dramatic area, language area.

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Culture Influences Children’s Play

September 28, 2023
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Nowadays, we have good resources for children who attend schools and daycares in their first years of life, where different programs offer different learning curriculum.

The daycares offer in their activities what we call free play where they give the opportunity for the child to choose their own game.

Play preference reflects the values ​​that children are being raised in within their culture. The individualistic culture may make the child prefer this play time to be alone, sometimes in competitive activities and in smaller groups, in activities that they can do alone.

We can see a difference between children from collective and collaborative cultures who may emphasize inclusion and play in larger groups. For some cultures moderation is important, in other cultures it is to be very expressive which may or may not seem boisterous or aggressive in a room. Another case in the game will vary depending on the role the child plays.

If children are raised in a rural area, they may be playing the roles of farmers taking care of animals, driving tractors unlike children raised in the city, they can drive taxis and buses to act out these roles.

To have in the learning environments books from different cultures, puzzles, music where children can understand and learn words from different cultures.

Considering the impact of technology that has changed the power of books, reading and interest in looking at books.

Don’t just read the story, let the child build a story simulation. Story-related projects can make art sing will help the child understand the culture. Encourage imitation games based on these stories. Provide opportunities for children to sing and dance.

There is much more to the interest of learning through play than just artifacts that you can bring into the classroom.

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Didactic Design in your Child Care

April 16, 2023
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Many times we have spacious rooms with a lot of material which we rarely use. We can use every corner to implement didactic design that promotes the cognitive development of children. Remember, your teaching design can be simple or elaborate. It doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, because what works for others won’t necessarily work for you.

It is important to highlight that an educational learning method is that set of steps to follow to generate a change in the student, so that they can learn and enhance their skills.

It is important that all furniture such as tables and chairs are suitable considering the size of children and preschool children.

Appropriate didactic ideas to implement in lesson plans:

  • Dramatic, sensory, linguistic, mathematical and cultural.
  • This will allow you to do thematic activities per day at different work stations, in which the children can rotate and maintain their constant attention.

1. Corners or an area where you have didactic spaces: Balls that can bounce off while learning. If you have enough space, you could install a small swing, a mini handrail, or a ladder with a slide.

2. Reading area: Large pillows are ideal for a moment of reading

3. Creativity area: Use the table, place a paper and a sheath cover with different temperatures, and seal it with adhesive tape. The little ones can use it to practice writing at the table.

4. Play station for the little ones: A kitchen with wooden toys, a painting easel, building blocks, materials with different textures, are some of the activities that you could implement here.

5. Music territory: Teaching through music wooden musical instruments, multicultural music discs for children.

6. Number space: stacking blocks are great for teaching counting, stacking, sorting by color, and other math-related activities.

Characteristics of the Didactic Material

The characteristics of a didactic material can vary according to the objectives, the characteristics of the students and the study conditions, as well as the infrastructures and access to technologies. For example, a teaching material for the area of mathematics cannot be prepared in the same way as for art history.

Among some characteristics, the didactic material:

  • It can be adapted to be used with or without the help of the teacher.
  • It can be used individually or in groups
  • It’s versatile. A didactic material can be designed for different contexts.
  • It is oriented to motivate. Its design should arouse interest and curiosity for the topic raised.
  • It is a source of information.
  • Establish a work rhythm. A didactic material can mark a rate of evolution or progress in the cognitive development, abilities, interests and other aspects of the student.
  • It allows the student to be able to develop strategies to evaluate, plan and organize their own learning.
  • Proposes a revision or reflection of one’s own knowledge, modifies schemes.
  • It must be available when it is needed.

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