How much time of the school hours should be spent on
playtime and how it impacts the learning and the development of children?
My fifth source comes from the
Atlantic journal, by Esther Entin: “All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More
Anxious, Depressed”. The author claims that For more than fifty years, children's free play
time has been continually declining, and it's keeping them from turning into
confident adults. She emphasize the declining
of play, who and what is interfering with children’s play, five ways kids can
benefit from playtime, and how the loss of play rises anxiety and depression.
My next source was given to me
last Friday by one of the teachers I’ve been talking to about at my work place.
I raised the same question to her and she gave me this source. The Washington
Post “The playtime’s The Thing”, by Emma Brown provides research claiming that play
is an essential determinant for a child’s social and emotional make up. She
also compares test scores from children that attend that attend play-based
schools and those who don’t and points out direct instruction vs play-based
instruction.
My last source for this week,
comes from We are Teachers, “Finland’s A+ Schools. The article compares
students test scores from Finland vs U.S. PiSA results. The article also shows
that students in Finland spend less time in
school and on homework than most nations but still see incredible results. To
end, the article proposes what we can learn from Finland to have more effective
result in schools, which is mainly the addition of more time for play.
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