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Play Defense Assignment

Read the following scenario.

In your Kindergarten classroom, you have students working in a variety of centers while you, the teacher, work with a small group of 4-5 students on writing instruction. Some of the centers include: A science center with students examining ant farms and creating tunnels in the sand table; an art center where some students are painting scenes and others are building 3-D models of ants; a mathematics center with small plastic ants of multiple colors that the students are sorting, counting, patterning and playing with; a dramatic play area in the kitchen that has included ants and small plastic shovels, a block center with small 2 inch sized plastic ants and cars added to the area as well as a variety of pictures of ant tunnels, and a reading center with science books on ants and insects, fiction books with ants as main characters and other print out pictures of ants.

Your school administrator walks into the classroom and disapprovingly looks around. He asks you to meet him in his office after school. You have a sense that he will want to talk to you about the students not being engaged in “learning activities”. You walk into the office and your administrator says, “I am really concerned by what I saw in your classroom. What were the students doing playing during instructional time? You know we have to meet AYP (adequate yearly progress) this year. How can you justify the students spending all of this time playing?”

Write a defense

Prepare a 2-3 page defense of your teaching strategies based on the course information. In your response, be sure to address why you have set up the learning environment in this fashion, why the students are engaged in these activities (use specific examples), what the students are learning by participating in these activities and how you know the students are actually learning. You may feel free to make elaborations to the scenario that may better describe effective classroom strategies. Be creative, professional, and complete in your response. Remember many administrators (and parents) do not understand the importance of play.

Play Defense Rubric

Exemplary

Highly

Proficient

Proficient

Approaches

Proficient

Does Not Meet Expectations

5 points

4 points

3 points

2 points

0-1 points

Overview of Teaching Strategies

  • Exceptional overview of the teaching strategies embedded in the play-based learning environment.
  • Outstanding introduction of the body of the paper and sets a professional tone for the rest of the piece
  • General overview of the teaching strategies embedded in the play-based learning environment.
  • Introduces the body of the paper and sets a professional tone for the rest of the piece
  • Limited or missing overview of the teaching strategies embedded in the play-based learning environment.
  • Vague introduction of the body of the paper fails to set a professional tone for the rest of the piece
  • Clear and well developed overview of the learning environment
  • Insightful examples of how the learning environment promotes growth and development
  • Strong evidence of the learning environment being consistent with best practice
  • Demonstrates exceptional understanding of the role of learning environment to support purposeful play
  • Overview of the learning environment is provided
  • Examples are included of how the learning environment promotes growth and development
  • Rationalization of the learning environment being consistent with best practice
  • Demonstrates understanding of the role of learning environment to support purposeful play
  • Overview of the learning environment is provided is minimal or lacking
  • Insufficient examples are included of how the learning environment promotes growth and development
  • Missing a rationalization of the learning environment being consistent with best practice
  • Fails to demonstrate understanding of the role of learning environment to support purposeful play
  • Specific examples of student engagement are provided and deeply connected to best practice.
  • Student engagement is skillfully linked to purposeful play and aligned to standards-based learning.
  • Examples of student engagement are provided and connected to best practice.
  • Student engagement is linked to purposeful play and aligned to standards-based learning.
  • Examples of student engagement are not provided or connected to best practice.
  • Student engagement is not linked to purposeful play nor aligned to standards-based learning.
  • Few to no minor errors in standard written English that do not interfere with understanding
  • Writing is easy read and understand
  • Paper is properly formatted
  • Most sources are referenced appropriately
  • References page follows APA style most of the time with minor errors
  • Few to no minor errors in standard written English that do not interfere with understanding
  • Frequent and/or severe errors in standard written English that interfere with understanding
  • Paper is formatted incorrectly
  • Most sources are NOT referenced appropriately
  • References page does not follow APA style or is missing

(Evidence in both columns 3 and 5 present)

(Evidence in both columns 1 and 3 present)

5 points

4 points

3 points

2 points

0-1 points

Learning Environment

(Evidence in both columns 3 and 5 present)

(Evidence in both columns 1 and 3 present)

5 points

4 points

3 points

2 points

0-1 points

Student Engagement

(Evidence in both columns 3 and 5 present)

(Evidence in both columns 1 and 3 present)

5 points

4 points

3 points

2 points

0 -1 points

Conclusion

Conclusion provides an exceptional summary and defense of play with purpose.

(Evidence in both columns 3 and 5 present)

Conclusion provides a summary and defense of play with purpose.

(Evidence in both columns 1 and 3 present)

Conclusion fails to provide a summary and defense of play with purpose.

5 points

4 points

3 points

2 points

0-1 points

Writing/APA Style
  • Writing is free from errors and is easy to read and understand
  • Writing is of an exceptional level, beyond masters level expectations
  • Exemplary use of APA formatting with in-text citations
  • Error-free reference page

(Evidence in both columns 3 and 5 present)

(Evidence in both columns 1 and 3 present)

website from lesson: http://www.nifplay.org/science/pattern-play/

You tube video from lesson

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