Overview
Assessment Guidance
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Aim
The aim of this unit is help learners understand the importance of play in early years settings. It also considers how play can help combat discrimination and stereotyping.
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The aim of this unit is help learners understand the importance of play in early years settings. It also considers how play can help combat discrimination and stereotyping.
Understand the features of a positive learning environment.
Additional details
Some examples of a positive environment may include:
Learners can use the examples to then identify how children learn through the play activities. This may include:
Understand how play can help children’s learning and development.
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Learners need to consider each of the areas of development and outline ways in which they promote development.
Examples may include:
Understand how play activities can avoid stereotyping and discrimination.
Additional details
Learners need to understand the meaning of stereotyping and then give practical examples. One example could be an assumption that boys do not like cooking.
Learners can select materials, resources or activities and identify how they can challenge stereotyping and discrimination. One example could be providing a carousel of activities in which both boys and girls get to try out the full range of activities on offer. Another might be availability of images (books/posters) that show a range of adults carrying out different jobs (e.g. a male nurse, a black police officer, a teacher who is a wheel-chair user).