Children are not experiencing the outdoors the way they used to. It used to be that children would look out the window at the world when they went on road trips but now they are constantly absorbed by their electronic devices. The Last Child in the Wood by Richard Louv is making a very strong argument on this topic. Richard Louv is concerned with making sure children make the same connections about nature that many generations have made before them. In this piece Louv used rhetorical questioning to draw attention to his most crucial points.
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) was introduced into England and Wales to try and provide a standard framework for childrenâ€TMs care, learning and development. It followed on from the government report Every Child Matters (ECM) which described how all children should achieve outcomes; • Staying safe • Being healthy • Enjoying and achieving • Making a positive contribution • Achieving economic well-being The government provides funding for every child aged 3 and 4 to receive 15 hours a week Early Years education (38 weeks a year). This follows the EYFS and it enables children from all social backgrounds to have the same opportunity to receive education and therefore more easily achieve the outcomes above.
Within the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) it is enormously important for relationships to be formed and maintained. Relationships should be formed between teachers and their pupils, teachers and parents and between teachers themselves. It is important for relationships to be maintained throughout the EYFS so that the child’s learning and development is effectively taught, so parents and carers knows they can trust the teachers and so teachers can work together successfully. Teachers and their pupils need to have a positive relationship.
SJTAA5007 The role of Teachers and support staff in identifying and implementing interventions that suit children’s individual needs using positive behaviour strategies within a primary setting. For the purpose of this project I will be looking at some of the influences that can impact on children’s social and emotional development as they move through childhood. These can often have a great impact on a child’s learning and ability to make successful transitions at key points in their lives. Difficulties often become apparent within the structured institutions such as schools where large cohorts are expected by society to conform to a certain acceptability of behaviour.
SJTAA5007 The role of Teachers and support staff in identifying and implementing interventions that suit children’s individual needs using positive behaviour strategies within a primary setting. For the purpose of this project I will be looking at some of the influences that can impact on children’s social and emotional development as they move through childhood. These can often have a great impact on a child’s learning and ability to make successful transitions at key points in their lives. Difficulties often become apparent within the structured institutions such as schools where large cohorts are expected by society to conform to a certain acceptability of behaviour.
The two current curriculum documents for children’s education in Australia are the Australian Curriculum (AC) and the Early Years Learning Framework (ELYF). The Australian Curriculum is intended for use with children in their foundation year of formal schooling through to their final senior secondary year. It is a framework designed to guide Australian educators on what skills and knowledge are to be taught and the quality of learning expected as students’ progress through school (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority [ACARA], n.d.). The Early Years Learning Framework is intended for educators of children aged birth to five years of age. This framework offers a vision that “all children experience learning that is engaging
It is important that when practitioners create the indoor environment they take into account of the children and young people’s interest, age and their individual needs. This will help the child to feel valued when going into the setting. The practitioner can plan activities within the environment as this can help a child to learn new skills. A practitioner can do this by using the indoor or outdoor environment, this could be by allowing the child to go on bikes. This will help the child to develop their physical development without them knowing and using play.
Traditional school versus Year round school The idea of year round school is starting to be more the topic of discussion. Many people are for the idea of year round education and many are against it. “If our country began on a year around schedule, it would have seemed bizarre to propose the summer- off schedule as a superior way to educate students” says Principle Hazel Colebank. Although some may feel year round school is great for bettering education, changing what’s considered normal could cause more harm than good.
In today’s society, children lack motivation to explore the outdoors, primarily due to a lack of curiosity. The excitement once associated with the mysteries of the outdoors does not seem to be present in the current generation. This is likely due to several influences. Firstly, as Louv points out ‘We are becoming a more sedentary society (pg. 11)’. Children are observing their parents and other adults not interacting with nature, and these observations form their own experiences with nature.
Understanding the world • The way in which children find out about nature and the world around them. • How children find out about their local communities. • The way in which children develop their confidence when using ICT equipment. Expressive arts and design • The development of children‘s creativity and imagination through art , dance and music . • How children use play to develop these skills Personal , social and emotion development
Consequently, children would be keen on participating in the exploration and learning of a novel environment (Bredekamp et.al, 1992). With interests, children would be able to stay focus and concentrated for a longer period of time (O’Brien and Murray, 2006). Children were basically physically active when they were in the woodland, which aided their development in gross motor and fine motor skills (O’Brien and Murray, 2006). Forest kindergarten offered numerous physical activities, such as climbing trees and balancing on trunks that prompted the strengthening in gross motor skills; handling tools to cut off branches and grabbing ropes to climb up a slope that promoted the development in fine motor
EYE13WB-1.1 Explain the role of the early years practitioner during: • nappy changing • toilet training • washing and bath time • skin, teeth and hair • meal time It is very important to establish a routine as an early year practitioner. Routines will support the physical care needs of children. It should provide a predictable and well-ordered environment, children know what to expect. They are comforting and provide regularity, especially for babies as they enable them to adjust to their own body rhythms.
He claims that some of the primary reasons why children become alienated from the natural world, especially at a young age include lure of the screen, parental fears inclusive of presence of restrictions in access natural areas (Louv, 2008). The author believes that parent’s efforts to protect their children from danger by keeping them indoors has become a severe problem as it acts as a disruption to the child’s ability fully connect with the natural world.
However, Parents now days feel that playing outside would not be safe but, the essential elements of development mostly gain in rustic play (Burdette & Whitaker, 2005). Children then are more exposed inside the house using technology like gadgets since they are not permitted to go outside. Positive
The environment becomes very important to a child as those experiences will reflect as they get
