Explain How To Promote Children's Activities For An Early Years
Activities for babies and young children in the early year’s settings are carefully planned to promote holistic development of the child. The role of the early year’s practitioner is to plan and implement activities to facilitate the development of children generally to include cognitive development, speech, language and communication development, physical development and social and emotional development at all stages.
Cognitive Development
It is important for an early year’s practitioner to plan and implement activities to facilitate cognitive development in children.
Active learning is learning that engages and challenges children’s thinking using real-life and imaginary situations. It takes advantage of the opportunities presented …show more content…
Observations should be carefully noted and shared with parents and colleagues
• Remember the sequence of development in thinking so that they can help the child in ways that tap into this.
• Use their observations to make sure that they do not underestimate or overestimate a child’s thinking.
• Offer a wide range of experience.
• Be flexible. Take their lead from the children when judging when a project is finished.
• See children as active learners.
• Try not to expect children to perform tasks that are too difficult for them and therefore discourage them.
• Encourage children to have ideas and to be creative and imaginative.
• Encourage children to try new things.
• Give children sensitive help in carrying out their ideas.
• Help the child while respecting and showing sensitivity to their ideas, helping only when
Cognitive Development
It is important for an early year’s practitioner to plan and implement activities to facilitate cognitive development in children.
Active learning is learning that engages and challenges children’s thinking using real-life and imaginary situations. It takes advantage of the opportunities presented …show more content…
Observations should be carefully noted and shared with parents and colleagues
• Remember the sequence of development in thinking so that they can help the child in ways that tap into this.
• Use their observations to make sure that they do not underestimate or overestimate a child’s thinking.
• Offer a wide range of experience.
• Be flexible. Take their lead from the children when judging when a project is finished.
• See children as active learners.
• Try not to expect children to perform tasks that are too difficult for them and therefore discourage them.
• Encourage children to have ideas and to be creative and imaginative.
• Encourage children to try new things.
• Give children sensitive help in carrying out their ideas.
• Help the child while respecting and showing sensitivity to their ideas, helping only when