The first Bronze level SchemaPlay workshop series for 2025 will be offered at Treasured Tots Piara Waters on 5 Saturday Mornings (9:30-12:00): 15 February, 22 February, 8 March, 15 March, 22 March at Treasured Tots Piara Waters, 76 Novelli Parade, Piara Waters.
Schemes are patterns of thinking and behaviour that help children (and adults!) make sense of the world as they try to find out how things work. Schemes are ‘short cuts’ for thinking about a collection of concepts and powerful motivators for repetitive action.
Schemes are visible in, and supported by, play. In turn, play is supported and validated by an understanding of the research evidence underpinning schemes.
Building on schemes engages children in their learning and helps them develop more complex concepts and skills.
Are you observing children, for example, repeatedly:
- Deliberately dropping things?
- Moving things from one place to another?
- Constructing fences and barricades to enclose themselves or animals?
- Twirling and spinning around?
- Covering and hiding things?
You are seeing schemes in action!
In this series of workshops you can expect to learn about:
- Schemes and schemas
- Behavioural schemes
- Environments that support behavioural schemes
- Observing schemes
- SchemaPlay ZPDF model
- Free flow play
- Seeding environments
- Providing information to families
- Concepts underpinning schemes
- Documenting schemes
- Using schemes in routines and transitions
- Supporting schemes with songs, rhymes and stories
- Fostering self-esteem, developing confidence
Come and learn more!
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