Research That Benefits Children and Families- Uplifting Stories

 

Play, Child Development, and Relationships: A Preschool Teacher in China Shares her Virtual Teaching Experiences

Option 1: Share a positive example of the effects of research on children and/ or families; maybe you are familiar with stories of people who have been positively affected by research; or you came across a published research article concerning children or families which you find exciting and who like to share with your colleagues.

    This article talks about a teacher and her experience with teaching during COVID-19. Amy Silverman has carefully planned a combination of virtual and hands-on learning opportunities for the children in her program. Amy Silverman is a preschool teacher at the American international school in Guangzhou, China, where the rapid spread of the COVID-19 cornavirus  has meant that we've had to take quick action to keep as many people healthy as possible. This article also mentions how Amy found some struggles with incorporating lessons for the children virtually how she would do in person. She had to come up with a program that incorporates all the learning domains.With careful planning Amy was able to create a play-based learning engagements children and caregivers can do together that are developmentally appropriate and that , as much as possible reflects her school standards.

    I found this article to be very informative and it gave me some motivation to look for ways to better improve my remote learning days at school. If you get a chance this is a good article to read/ reference. This article can be found on the NAEYC's website.

Reference

Silverman, Amy, August/September 2020, Vol.13, NO.5. Play, Child Development, and Relationships: A Preschool Teacher in China Shares her Virtual Teaching Experience.

https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/tyc/apr2020/play-child-development-and-relationships

Personal Research Journey

 Personal Research Journey 

Why is Play Important? And How Children and Families Bonds Through Play

For this class, I have decided to do my research on "Play". I chose this topic, due to it relates with what I do everyday. I work in an NC Prek program. This program targets at risk children and families. We use the creative curriculum and it is also play based, meaning that the children are learning through play. Before the COVID pandemic, I have done many parent involvement activities inside the classroom. These activities that were conducted in the classroom were activities that had the children and parents working together or playing to get the desired outcome. What I found challenging about this research is just finding enough information that has different points of view. I guess that is a good thing that the articles touch mostly on the same source or information. It just means that I have to become more creative in the questions that I am asking or looking for. An website that I have been doing some research through is Naeyc. During my research through other class assignments, I found that play, has been one of the focus in other countries as well, especially those who are in poverty cities/ countries. Hopefully during the next few weeks I will have new and interesting information to share with you.