What is it about?
Report on teacher training that enables teachers and teaching assistants to: Supervise free play and risk play without imposing their own agenda. Draw benefits for their classroom practice by observing their class engaged in free play and risk play. Recognise the social learning, physical learning and personal learning that occurs during free play and risk play.
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Why is it important?
We report that with support most teachers are able to relinquish control of activities and make good free play supervisors. We report that teachers insight into their own class and each child's learning is increased.
Perspectives
As a teacher and forest school leader I see different aspects of the same children. Those who lead in class are rarely those who lead in play; and the skills of those who lead in play appear more congruent with the skills of those who do well in the world of work and life in general. Enabling teachers to gain insight into children engaged in free play and risky play will enrich their educational practice.
Mr Keir Allan Mitchell
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This page is a summary of: An adaptable persona: training teachers to be playwork practitioners, Journal of Playwork Practice, April 2015, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/205316215x14291083957916.
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