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Use this section to post any play you incorporate into your classes, we would love to see your experiments or things that worked well!

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Use this section to post any play you incorporate into your classes, we would love to see your experiments or things that worked well!

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Turnaround - Building Blocks for LEarning

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Turnaround - Building Blocks for LEarning

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Reserve an area in your space for block play without directions

Make it freely accessible

Play there yourself (modelling & sharpening your own play skills)

'Hook' kids by using 5 min loosely-directed warmers at the start of classes ("Build how you're feeling today" or "Build something red" or "Build something watery" or "Build something you remember from last week's class")

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Here are the barriers to play that teachers mentioned:

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Here are the barriers to play that teachers mentioned:

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Children already have some free play time scheduled in their day. Ask students from suggestions on what would make the playground a more playful place.

"What would you like to play outside?"

"Is there anything that stops you playing?"

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Chye and the grade leaders have agreed that we should go ahead this year with Int'l Day of Play. Join me to help organise it!

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Why wait for International Day of Play? Add play to your everyday!
Education Toolkit
If you're looking for a creative activity to try, we've designed one that asks children to think of ways to help more children around the world engage in play.

Designed for informal educational settings, or schools, it takes 45-60 minutes and is for children 7 years and above.

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Helps ensure that every child thrives and reaches their potential through the power of play. Get ready to celebrate play on the 11th June, every year.

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DO this by yourself to become more playful, or do this with students!

Create a resource centre so that students might be able to 'play' on paper in this way in your space.

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The Power of Ugly Art ✨ Creativity Exercise for Dealing with Your Inner Critic in Your Sketchbook

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Joyful

Meaningful

Actively Engaging

Interative

Socially interactive

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Invite families to donate recycled materials year-round.

Playful resources that don't have a specific purpose can always inspire play!

In the video, see example of a 'sticky table', which is just one way to use recycled materials.

This should be open-ended, not an 'activity' done in a fixed 'lesson time'.

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Help kids understand their right to play.

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How to "Play-ify" a Learning Objective? Tips & ideas

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How to "Play-ify" a Learning Objective? Tips & ideas

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Look at your objective and understand it deeply

Ask yourself "is there a real life way to understand this concept/idea?" Often, when we introduce authenticity to an objective, we introduce immersive, hands-on play. e.g. Concept of addition can be taught using a role-play shop/sale or, even better, a real shop.

Ask yourself "How can I make this idea/concept immersive?" Again, when we introduce immersive elements that often leads to play. For example: Concept of time and year dates can be taught by building a pretend time machine where dates have to be dialled in.

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not harder: assessment strategies that motivate kids and help them learn

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educational tests and measurements - united states

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grading and marking (students) - united states

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grading and marking (students) - united states

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Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn

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Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn [Dueck, Myron] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Grading Smarter, Not Harder: Assessment Strategies That Motivate Kids and Help Them Learn

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