Becoming a Playful Educator Online Course
Discover how to make your early childhood centre more playful and active, in support of the health, happiness and wellbeing of the children in your care with Nature Play WA’s engaging online professional learning course, Becoming a Playful Educator.
About the Course
The Becoming a Playful Educator eCourse will inspire you to create enriching, active experiences for children through playful learning outdoors.
Each session will provide you will tools, resources and inspiration for planning and implementing an engaging nature and play-based approach to your outdoor setting.
Available for completion individually or as a team, you can easily work at your own pace through our series of bite-sized, online modules!
The course includes a total of 14 modules across four primary content areas, with each including a selection of video and audio files, questions for stimulating thinking, facilitator notes for learning together as a team, and more.
The modules (with approximate time required) are;
Part 1: The Importance of Being a Playful Educator
1.1 Attitudes towards outdoor play and learning and physical activity (1 hour)
1.2 Children’s intrinsic motivation to play and be physical (1 hour)
1.3 Being playful as an educator (1 hour)
1.4 Enhancing educators’ skills for supporting children’s physical play (20-25 minutes)
Part 2: Creating Active & Playful Outdoor Learning Environments
2.1 Active and playful outdoor learning environments – Space (2 hours)
2.2 Active and playful outdoor learning environments – Resources (3.5 hours)
2.3 Active and playful outdoor learning environments – Time (1 hour)
Part 3: Exploring Play Opportunities
3.1 Exploring how play provides unlimited opportunities for children to improve their physical activity (1 hour)
3.2 Discovering frameworks to guide thinking about play (1.5 hours)
3.3 Child-led and play-based, open-ended physical activity (1 hour)
3.4 Intentional experiences using the Arts as a stimulus (2.5 hours)
Part 4: Planning Cycles and Documentation
4.1 Planning cycles and documentation for active outdoor play – observe then analyse (1 hour)
4.2 Planning cycles and documentation for active outdoor play – make and implement a plan (1 hour)
4.3 Planning cycles and documentation for active outdoor play – evaluate and review (1 hour)
Want to Know More?
Get started on Becoming a Playful Educator today! Full details available now via the Nature Play WA Thinkific online course platform.
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Delivered at your school or early learning centre by our qualified Education Consultants, our On-Site Professional Learning Workshops will inspire your education setting to embrace unstructured outdoor play and nature-based learning.
