As a home educator I’ll be using variety of developmentally appropriate learning experiences and teaching strategies for children to explore music, movement and the visual arts, and to develop and express their individual creative abilities. Encourages parents to enter children’s dramatic play, to extend and to sustain socio-dramatic role play, recognizes and helps parents understand that the process of creating is as important as the product, to encourages parents to accept and praise children’s creative expressions and ideas and to display their work respectfully, to include children in music, dance, celebrations and other expressive cultural activities and reinforces new ideas and creative expression from parents.
As a home educator I’ll help parents plan creative activities in which children with disabilities can participate easily and enjoy them, models and encourages parents to participate in “messy” activities with children such as water play, sand play, finger painting and cooking.
As a home educator I’ll be working with parents of young and mobile infants also to understand that exploration and discovery by infants through their movements, voice and expression are creative acts, to supports parents in observing and responding to infants’ initiatives to play, move and use materials gradually introducing new things to be combined and used in ways that infants can invent (for example, pieces of fabric of different colors and textures, rhythm instruments or objects that make different noises or assorted empty food containers), also shares infants’ joy in a variety of ways- clapping, smiling, hugging- in order to encourage their spontaneity and creativity.
As a home educator I’ll be working with parents of toddlers and preschoolers to encourages parents to gradually introduce a variety of art materials, allow toddlers time to explore them in their own ways and show interest in what they do, suggests dress-up clothes and other “props”, including