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Post by Laura Hull on May 1, 2017 16:17:47 GMT -8
Many programs may fail to provide the recommended sixty minutes of structured and sixty minutes of unstructured play for a few reasons, such as: -large numbers of young students make transition times difficult. For example, getting coats on fourteen two year old children, making sure they all still have their shoes on, dealing with last minute accidents or surprise dirty diapers, and convincing them all to drop their toys so that they can go outside for some unstructured outdoor play time is a huge amount of work. Sometimes a transition like that can take much longer than anticipated, leading to a decrease in actual time spent in structured or unstructured play. -a teacher can't always know whether or not a structured play activity will be engaging to the children. If it doesn't catch their interest, it may be hard for her to justify stretching the time out to sixty minutes. -when children behave disruptively or are being mean to each other, some teachers decide to interrupt an unstructured play time in order to redirect children so that they will not make negative choices.
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