Communications and Information Technology and Legislation

Aistear is the computer programme framework for children from birth to six-spot years. The Framework supports children grow and develop as confident and competent learners through fun, interesting and challenging experiences. The Aistear Toolkit is the place where you ass access lots of practical resources online to help you get started with utilize Aistear. ace of the topics discussed on the Aistear toolkit is learning through cope with. Children love to play and these resources will help a teacher to support children to learn through their play as suggested end-to-end the course.We will now review unmatchable of the Aistear tellys named Planning and Organising Play. The television receiver is produced by an infant teacher. The teacher looks at pedagogical framing and her experiences of prep and organising her own class path. There are many excellent suggestions as to how to situated up play in a class room purlieu which I will explain next, however there are one or two weaknesses that if I was delivern the opportunity I would deviate to this pic.Overall the motion picture is real assistive and it does give excellent advice from an experienced infant teacher that would be like gold dust to an uninitiated teacher new to this profession. We will name the teacher bloody shame for the declare oneself of this critique as Aistear does not state the name of the presenter. Mary looks at pedagogical framing which she states lays the foundations for play. She calls it behind the scene work. According to Mary it includes the render of resources, arrangement of space, and the establishment of daily routines, thematic planning and assessment.Mary communicates her subject across in an orderly and mannerly trace. She is easy to listen to and reminds me of a teacher that I had many years ago wise and healthy experienced. I would be confident to implement her suggestions just by the tone of her voice. If I had one negative point in relation to the vocalizer that would be that she does not appear at any point throughout the icon. It would be nice to be able to connect with her as she explains her view. The depiction has many strengths and I found many parts in truth helpful for planning play activities in the past.Mary uses her past experiences to help give advice with planning and organising a class room. The video starts by recommending different play plains that could be introduced into the classroom, Mary recommends that the teacher should choose five or six field of views for the academic year. Such as horse sense firmament, water area, block area, smooth world, creative and social dramatic areas. Mary takes each play area that she recommends and explains the benefits of using these for the childrens learning and development.Using her experience she explains that the sand area works very well in her classroom, she goes on to explain that sand areas are excellent for small group play and that it encourages the child ren to use their imagination. Her advice is very helpful when she suggests that the children should select other resources from other types of play e. g. small world. I found her suggestions very helpful when planning my own activities and my learning goals were achieved when using the ideas from this video.The video explains the learning goals that can be achieved using these play areas such(prenominal) as having a sand area in the class room creates a learning environment, children learn sorting, counting and learn mathematical questions naturally. When I was planning activities and trying to introduce the Aistear themes such as Exploring and Thinking I introduced the sand activity to help the children understand concepts such as matching, ordering, counting, sorting, and capableness in an enjoyable and meaningful way.Mary explains that by using a water area for play it arouses the childrens curiosity and that whilst children play in the water area they are verbally interacting t ogether. Asking questions and making comments claim forward ideas and suggestions and helps groups agree on solutions. She talks about real living or imaginative experiences using the blocks area. That play must be purposeful. This is very relevant to Aistear as throughout the Aistear curriculum it is suggested that play must gravel meaning so that the children will achieve there learning goals.Mary explains all the areas of play in great detail and links are evident throughout that the Aistear plan is at the heart of this video, however if you as a viewer were not familiar with the curriculum and were using this video to help you to create your activity plans your plans would not meet the level that the curriculum would expect because the video does not carry any distinct links to the actual layout of the Aistear curriculum. She does not invoke the themes such as Well-being, Identity and Belonging, communication or Exploring and Thinking.The play areas that are mentioned do cover the learning goals for the themes and for an new person training to be a teacher they would not make this connection. If the video had captions throughout of the themes it would link the curriculum and the video perfectly. The Curriculum is intentional around different age groups (birth to six years). The video does not mention the age groups or how each play area could be use for the different age categories. Throughout the Aistear Curriculum examples are given for babies, toddlers and junior children and Mary does not implement this important distinction in the video once.The video suggests types of play that are low cost for materials and easy to serve up using everyday items. The teacher recommends that the play areas be changed per annum to prevent boredom for the teacher and the children. However the teacher recommends that the socio dramatic area should always be present in the classroom but does not explain why. Mary talks about the physical layout of the classro om finally which I savour was not necessary as there is a separate video in the toolkit which explores this topic in great detail.The video in my opinion is not long enough for this topic to be mentioned. This time could have been allocated to the Aistear themes and how they were achieved using the play areas discussed throughout the video. Overall the video has many useful ideas that can easily be taken and utilise to create a playful environment but I feel from all the information available to me that there is not a toilsome enough connection between the actually hard copy of Aistear and the video.ReferencesAistear Curriculum www.ncca.ieAistear Toolkit www.ncca.ie/aisteartoolkitVideo Planning and Organising Play http//vimeo.com/21112275