Schemas and the 2-year-old

Course outline

Practitioners working with 2-year-olds will see schemas in their exploratory play and investigations. This course is design to help practitioners go beyond merely schema spotting, where a child is just repeating a set of physical actions.

Contents

• Learn how to support the 2-year-olds development based on their first hand experience
• Support the two-year-olds pretend play as they become interested in transporting, rotation, envelopment, and enclosures or the containment schema
• Learn how the two-year-olds represent their actions symbolically and talk about them
• Plan motivating and challenging experiences that are linked to their schematic interest on how things happen and on making things happen
• Sharing knowledge of schemas with parents

Outcomes

• It will encourage practitioners to observe the two-year-olds closely
• It will help practitioners to understand and make sense of what children have been learning
• Help practitioner to provide developmental appropriate challenges that links to their developing ideas
• Provide practitioners with insight into how two-year-olds learn
• Help practitioners complete the 2-year-old progress check
• It will support practitioners to plan and extend learning and identify children’s progress
• It will support practitioners in their work with involving parents in their child’s learning

The Trainer

You can view Stella Louis' biography on her dedicated Associates page.

Speaker/s: Stella Louis

Time: 9.30 - 3.30