From birth, children naturally learn through play. They explore the world and interact with materials, with problems, with people, with the world around them. Through play young children gain essential knowledge and skills. Children learn through play. Play is learning. But how to go about this? How to create playful learning experiences, how to create an environment which children can explore and engage with and while doing so, acquire the competences as listed in the competence based curriculum (CBC)?
Training module ‘Numeracy? It’s play! - Learning Numeracy through Play in Pre-primary’ for teachers and headteachers
Teachers are the most important players in improving education quality, also in preschool. This training module ‘Numeracy? It’s play! - Learning Numeracy through Play in Pre-primary’ is designed for pre-primary teachers and headteachers. It helps teachers to better understand learning through play and how it can be applied in emergent numeracy. Additionally, this module helps school leaders to create an enabling environment for pre-primary teachers while they learn and implement learning through play approaches. It guides school leaders and teachers in their interactions with parents on learning through play. The training module is available in English and Kinyarwanda.
Trainer’s manual ‘Numeracy? It’s play! - Learning Numeracy through Play in Pre-primary’
While the training module ‘Numeracy? It’s play! - Learning Numeracy through Play in Pre-primary’ for teachers and headteachers could stand on its own for trainees, the trainer’s manual helps the trainer to translate the content of the training module for teachers into meaningful and playful learning experiences during the training in order to develop new competencies (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in teachers and headteachers. The key principle underlying the training are: play based approaches in all training components; based on and stimulating reflection; try out and practice; and collaborative learning.
