Nursery World - Learning & Development: Characteristics of Learning

Lisa Sancisi and Margaret Edgington look at how to support the
characteristics of effective learning.

In planning and guiding children's activities, practitioners must reflect on the different ways that children learn and reflect the characteristics of effective learning in their practice. Three characteristics of effective teaching and learning are:

The characteristics of effective learning are important because they:

PLAYING AND EXPLORING

Play is a particularly important vehicle for learning for young children. This wonderful quotation, found on the website http://quixoteconsulting.com/Blog/2013/09/20/ play-and-learning-quotes-part-5/ (along with many others), sums up why it is so crucial in helping children to become lifelong learners: 'It's not so much what children learn through play, but what they won't learn if we don't give them the chance to play.

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