Reviewing Play-Based Learning
Overview
The purpose of this course is to educate and provide resources to teachers who are interested in play-based learning. In this course you should have learned about what exactly play-based learning is, how it can benefit your classroom, how to implement it into your everyday instruction, various tools and materials helpful for implementation, the positive affects of play-based learning, etc.. My goal was to have you understanding play-based learning and having a clear image of how you will implement play-based learning into your classroom by the end of this course.
Final Assessments
In order to evaluate your understanding of the content presented throughout this course you will engage in a few final projects to show your understanding.
Course Reflection
In order to both improve the effectiveness of this course, as well as reflect on the content covered throughout this course, I have included a jamboard that allows for you to fill in content addressed in the course on a sticky note and attack it to a column being either good, ok, or bad. This will help me the creator reflect on areas that may need more coverage, and can help you as the learner reflect on certain areas you may want to revisit. The link to the jam board is included below, please feel free to include any notes relating to how to better improve this course for future learners as well!
Personal Reflection
For your personal reflection your will be creating a lesson plan meeting the requirements highlighted in the document below titled "Lesson Plan". The lesson plan does not have a specific criteria, you are just expected to include the components listed in the document mentioned above and create a lesson plan on a topic of your choosing. The purpose of using a lesson plan to assess your understanding of the content presented throughout this course is to help you as the learner reflect on the various components of play-based learning addressed throughout this course. It is helpful for the fact that you get to take the information learned throughout this course and relate it to your specific ways of teaching. File:PlayBasedLearningInfographic-1.pdf
The other assignment that will be used to assess your understanding is the creation of an infographic organizer in relation to play-based learning. This is something that can help parents get involved in their child's learning, and is a great way to reflect on the key positives of play-based learning. For reference I have included an example of a play-based learning infographic organizer below.
Play-based Learning Infographic Organizer
Thank you
Thank you for participating in my course and congratulations on making it through!!! I hope you are able to utilize the content covered in this course to better your classroom instruction and to provide your students with the best opportunity for learning.