1.

With reference to the various approaches to ECE select any two which
you think are most appropriate for young learners. Support your answer
with relevant explanation.

Approach 1
All about Playbased learning
 Play based learning promotes the complete development like
physical, social, emotional, cognitive and creative of a child.

 Play-based learning also provides opportunities for children to

actively engage with people, objects and the environment.

 The representation is a critical aspect.

 When playing, children may be organising, constructing,

manipulating, pretending, exploring, investigating, creating,
interacting, imagining, negotiating and making sense of their
worlds.

 It may also support the numericals skills for the children.

 If utilised effectively, possible characteristics may include active,

agentic and creative.

Playbased learning
What can be done?
Teachers may do things such as,

 We teachers may construct opportunities for play within the learning

environment.
  We teachers may make connections between play and

Curriculum.

 We Teachers may make model, support, initiate and generate play

to include the use of, for example, puppet, media, block, sand and
water.

 We teachers may actively engage in and guide the play before,

during and after.

Children may do things such as,

 Engage in a learning about environment that progressively

withdraws structure as mastery is increased.

 They may try modelled language and behaviours within meaningful

classroom contexts.

 They may move towards applying skills, strategies, concepts and

rules independently.

 They may transfer new knowledge to broader teaching and learning

contexts.

 They may identify when, and from whom, help can be sought.
Apporach 2
All about Eventbased learning
 This learning provides opportunities to connect children’s home
knowledge to school knowledge

 This event based learning has positive impacts on literacy and

numeracy learning.

 This learning has an interactions to focus on the curriculam.

 This learning can be used to develop a common language and

understanding for teachers of their decision

 If utilised effectively, possible characteristics may include agentic,

collaborative, language rich, narrative and playful.

Event based approach

What can be done?
Teachers may do things such as,

 Teachers discuss and model the skills to facilitate young learners.

 Teachers may evoke children’s interests and experiences them

towards the event.

 The teacher may conduct cultural events ( mother’s day

Grandparents day) ,planned excursions,(science centre, museum,
puppet, farm) show and school based events
  The teacher may conduct various competition such as,watercolour
painting, clay modelling, digital drawing connecting to assessment.

Children may do things such as,

 They will respond to news,community occasions and cultural

celebrations,

 They will participate in sports and cultural events.

 Children’s may share their thinking throughtout the event based on

curriculam.

 Children may identify the thinking used to solve problems in given

situations.

 They may express their opinion to plan events in real life contexts.