Online Children Care and Playwork Course

Go through the lessons of this course to understand how playwork contributes to a child’s learning, development, and sense of self. Also, learn about various strategies for encouraging and integrating play into different children’s activities.

Children’s early years are particularly important to their development. The stimulations they receive and experiences they gain during the first five years of their life form the foundation of their brain’s development and shape their future health, learning achievement, social and emotional abilities, and general functioning throughout life. Due to these, it is necessary for parents and childcare workers to invest in the early years of children to ensure their future success. Part of this investment is to support, encourage, and integrate play into children’s activities.

Play is perceived as an activity that is meant to foster enjoyment and recreation. While some do not think that it has serious or practical purpose, the truth is it is integral to the emotional and intellectual development of children and strengthening their mental health resilience. In fact, play is often regarded as the ‘language of childhood.’ It is therefore a necessity to facilitate children’s play and provide opportunities and effective environments through which it can be carried out.

This Online Children Care and Playwork course will let you in on the fundamentals of childcare and playwork. It will give you insights into how children develop and how play influences their development process and outcomes. It will also acquaint you with playwork principles, which thoroughly explains what play is and what makes it unique and serve as the professional framework for playwork practice. The course will also provide you guidance on developing and maintaining positive relationships with children, exercising active listening and good communication, and designing and providing challenging play and play environments for children.

Course Units

Some of the topics that will be discussed in detail within the course include:

• Understanding the Value and Role of Play in Child Development
• Different Play Theories
• Describing Playwork Principles
• Approaches to Promoting Positive Relationships
• Establishing and Maintaining Relationship with Children and Young People
• Understanding and Making Use of Body Language
• Practicing Active Listening
• What Good Communication is and Why It Matters
• Providing Positive Role Models
• Facilitating Effective Communication
• Techniques for Providing Challenging Play Environments
• Making Sense of Inclusive Practice
• Understanding Children’s Law
• What the Human Rights Act is About
• Managing Playwork Provision
• Getting to Know the ‘Every Child Matters’ Initiative
• Putting Reflective Practice Into Action

Expected Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how a child develops and know how play contributes to and influences a child’s development process and outcomes.
• Know the key principles of playwork and figure out what they are for and how to put them into practice.
• Develop the skills to effectively establish, promote and maintain positive relationship with children.
• Know how to facilitate active listening and effective communication when dealing with children.
• Learn various strategies for supporting and encouraging play and developing a challenging play environment for children.
• Make sense of reflective and inclusive practice and know about the laws and provisions that protect children’s rights.

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