In your response, ask questions regarding your peer’s actual play personality an
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Question
In your response, ask questions regarding your peer’s actual play personality and the implications it will have on your peer’s play environment. Add one additional suggestion based on your play personality that your peer could incorporate into his or her work with children. Additionally, discuss how your results have or have not changed your view of your play personality. 5 sentences.
My predicted play personality would be a mixture of artist/creator and explorer.
I love to be creative and give children lots of different modalities of materials to create open ended art. Making gifts for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Christmas, birthdays, etc. gets me so excited. I’m not one to get all worried about messes, or using too much of an item, I just let the kids go, when something runs out, they need to think of something else they could use. The explorer play is another play that I absolutely love, being outside, taking walks, looking under rocks, boards, watching how the wind blows, how our shadows move, anything outside is fun. I enjoy going to places that have hands on exploration, or visual exploration that is how I learn the most.
My quiz play personality was the collector.
This would not have been the play that I would have chosen, but I do like to collect items for creating art. Going outdoors and collecting helicopters (seeds from trees), dead flowers, sticks, rocks, anything that doesn’t hurt the outdoors that I can bring inside to create some form of art.
The anticipated implications that my play personality will have in the environment that I will teach is having lots of open ended materials in the art area. Having not only store bought items for collages, but also items brought in from outdoors. Having colored glue, glue sticks, scissors, tape, staplers, crayons, markers, hole punches, colored pencils, and a selection of paper choses to pick gives children lots of different materials to create. Taking pictures of community places the children go to and taping them on blocks in the block area help children to be creative about places they go. Adding items from outdoors that the children have gathered in the science area for exploration with magnifying glass, mirrors, and being able to touch them and see what’s inside things. Using items such as sticks, rocks, glitter, sparkles, of different sizes to add to the play doe table. The best play places for child development centers and schools integrate the indoor and outdoor learning programs, and integrate built and natural materials to match the developmental play needs of children (Frost, J., Wortham, S., & Reifel, S. (2011).
Explanation / Answer
You have beautifully explained your predicted play personality and also the activities that you do with the children. I am sure it hepls the children to have a very exploratory and interesting play environment for them. We all are aware that every child is very different from another, I am curious to know about how you actually deal with the children especially in the cases when some of them are not at all interested in playing games or engaging themselves in these activities. Can you list some of the activities that you actually might use when this situation occurs and also the outcomes it will have.
Based on my personal play personality, I can suggest you a technique/ an activity that you can easily incorporate in your play with peers and make sure the engagement of all the children.
My personal technique is the use of positive reinforcement where the children gets motivation to perform any task or activity happily even when they initially show a lack of interest.
The use of positive reinforcement requires me to know the children very well as it varies for each of them. These reinforcements are used on appropriate inverval schedules to make sure that they dont get habituated to it.
My personal experience has been really great with the use of this technique as this helps me engaging all the children in the play activity which also helps in forming a stronger bond among themselves also with me.
This also plays as a positive reinforcement for me which makes this aspect of my play personality much firm and strong.