Learning Through Schematic Play

Facilitated by Elise Waghorn

Are you an early childhood educator looking to deepen your understanding of:

  • Schematic Play
  • Different types of schematic play
  • The age that schematic play develops
  • The benefits of loose parts
  • How to support children within their play

 

Learn how to support infants and toddlers in schematic play.

This self-paced course will empower educators with a deeper understanding of schematic play processes and how planning for schematic play can enhance children’s holistic growth and development.

Gain practical strategies and professional confidence to plan for infants' and toddlers' learning and development within their play.

Become an expert at planning for Schematic Play

Learn how to confidently foster infant and toddlers play

  • Respond to children's urge to engage in schematic play.

  • Develop holistic play experiences.

  • Understand different types of schema and the many benefits of schematic play.

  • Deepen knowledge of symbolic play.

  • Unpack strategies to support schematic play.

Course curriculum

    1. How to use this platform

    2. Student walk through video

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Agreement

    4. About your facilitator - Elise Waghorn

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Recorded Webinar - Learning Through Schematic Play

    1. What is a Schema?

    2. Piaget's Schema: How we change information to fit our brain space

    3. Toddler Play Videos

    1. Schematic Play in Early Years – What it is and different types explained

    2. A guide to schema play in toddlers

    3. Heuristic Play Materials: Unstructured play materials for infants and toddlers.

    4. Raising Children Network

    1. Schematic Play

    2. Loose Parts Poster

    1. Schematic Play Reflection

    2. Final reflection

    3. Get in touch with the team at Phoenix Support

    4. Other Professional and Personal Development Opportunities

About this course

  • $48.00
  • 18 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Link theory, research, and evidence to your practice and planning

This course will show you how to incorporate the following theories into your planning

  • The Phoenix Cups

    A shared language, an approach, a revolutionary framework. The Phoenix Cups is a philosophical framework that your team can use to share ideas, language, and understandings about human behaviour.

  • The Guidance Approach

    The guidance approached is centred on the idea that children’s behaviours are driven by an attempt to meet a need. Dan Gartrell stresses that an effective learning community is one that fosters creativity through autonomy.

  • Scholarly literature

    Each course is informed by contemporary references to peer-reviewed scholarly articles and highly credible sources, so you can be assured the content is valid, trusted, and reliable.

Bonus material

You will get instant access to a resource library as well as a two hour live presentation

  • Videos

    This course includes video content to provide further depth to your knowledge and understanding.

  • Downloadable PDF's

    Downloadable resources that every educator needs for understanding how to support infant and toddlers schematic play.

  • Internet resources

    Web links to key learning material and helpful educator resources.

Your Facilitator

Phoenix Support for Educators

Facilitator, Education and Care Mentor Elise Waghorn

Elise is a huge advocate for giving children a voice in things that directly affect them. She has a passion for play-based learning and uses a strength-based approach with coaching and mentoring. Elise believes she gets the best out of educators by recognising their individual strengths and making sure they can be incorporated within their practice. Elise is the person you want in your corner! She recognises and empathises the challenging (and wonderful) job that educators have, having worked in services previously. Elise joined Phoenix Support for educators in 2016 bringing with her a wealth of knowledge and experience in education and care. In fact, Elise has taught over 21 units in The Bachelor of Early Childhood and Primary and Masters of Early Childhood and Masters of Education. In addition to her coaching and mentoring with Phoenix support for educators Elise is a collective mentor to students in the graduate program at the University of Melbourne. She is also a PhD candidate, and her studies explore scholarly Habitus in children's lifeworld's by exploring high stakes testing and educational capital. All her workshops are theory-based, as Elise heavily researches the literature to provide as much current and peer-reviewed information as possible. Elise currently delivers a number of courses and workshops including the Holistic Infant and Toddler Development series, the Fostering Children’s Wellbeing series, the Protecting Children’s Rights educator training bundle, the Educators' Toolkit for Behaviour workshop, and the Documenting to Discover workshop. She loves developing content-specific information for individual services to meet their needs.

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FAQ

  • How long do I have access to the course?

    You have access to this series for 6 weeks. We estimate it will take you about 4.5 hours to complete the whole series, so we have allowed for 1.5 hour per week and an extra week for catch up for each course.

  • Will I get a certificate?

    To receive your certificate, you must click on 'Complete & Continue' on every page of the course. Once you've done this your certificate download button should come up in the top left corner of your course, where the progress bar is.