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Aistear is the course of instruction framework for children from birth to six years. The fashion model admirers children grow and develop as positive(p) and competent produceers through and through fun, interesting and challenging lives. The Aistear Toolkit is the place where you can access lashings of practical resources online to serve up you get started with victimisation Aistear. One of the things discussed on the Aistear toolkit is development through touch. Children love to carry and these resources will help a instructor to support children to learn through their sportswoman as suggested end-to-end the computer programme.We will now review virtuoso of the Aistear word pictures named Planning and Organising Play. The scene is produced by an babe instructor. The instructor looks at pedagogical enclose and her experiences of plan and organising her possess classway. There be m each excellent suggestions as to how to desexualize up play in a class room e nvironment which I will develop next, however at that place argon one or dickens weaknesses that if I was given the opportunity I would change to this video.Overall the video is actually face-saving and it does give excellent advice from an experienced infant instructor that would be alike(p) gold dust to an inexperienced teacher new to this profession. We will name the teacher bloody shame for the purpose of this critique as Aistear does not state the name of the presenter. bloody shame looks at pedagogical framing which she states lays the formations for play. She calls it down the scene work. According to bloody shame it includes the training of resources, arrangement of space, and the establishment of daily routines, thematic plan and assessment.bloody shame communicates her mess shape up across in an orderly and mannerly sapidity. She is blue-blooded to listen to and reminds me of a teacher that I had many years ago sweet and well experienced. I would be convinc ed(p) to implement her suggestions just by the tone of her voice. If I had one negative run in relation to the speaker that would be that she does not appear at any point passim the video. It would be pure to be able to connect with her as she explains her view. The video has many strengths and I open many parts genuinely helpful for planning play activities in the past.Mary uses her past experiences to help give advice with planning and organising a class room. The video starts by recommending varied play argonas that could be introduced into the classroom, Mary recommends that the teacher should choose five or six areas for the academic year. Such as anchor area, water supply area, block area, keen world, creative and social dramatic areas. Mary takes each play area that she recommends and explains the benefits of utilize these for the childrens learning and development.Using her experience she explains that the sand area works real well in her classroom, she goes on t o explain that sand areas are excellent for abject group play and that it encourages the children to use their imagination. Her advice is very helpful when she suggests that the children should select different resources from other types of play e. g. small world. I found her suggestions very helpful when planning my own activities and my learning goals were achieved when victimization the ideas from this video.The video explains the learning goals that can be achieved using these play areas such as having a sand area in the class room farms a learning environment, children learn sorting, reckoning and learn mathematical questions naturally. When I was planning activities and trying to introduce the Aistear themes such as Exploring and Thinking I introduced the sand action to help the children understand concepts such as matching, ordering, counting, sorting, and capacity in an enjoyable and substantive way.Mary explains that by using a water area for play it arouses the child rens curiosity and that whilst children play in the water area they are verbally interacting together. inquire questions and making comments bring forward ideas and suggestions and helps groups oblige on solutions. She dialog about current life or imaginative experiences using the blocks area. That play must be purposeful. This is very relevant to Aistear as throughout the Aistear curriculum it is suggested that play must have significance so that the children will achieve there learning goals.Mary explains all the areas of play in great detail and cerebrate are evident throughout that the Aistear political program is at the heart of this video, however if you as a viewer were not familiar with the curriculum and were using this video to help you to create your activity plans your plans would not ensure the level that the curriculum would expect because the video does not make any limpid links to the actual layout of the Aistear curriculum. She does not watch over the the mes such as Well-being, Identity and Belonging, communication or Exploring and Thinking.The play areas that are celebrateed do cover the learning goals for the themes and for an inexperienced soulfulness training to be a teacher they would not make this connection. If the video had captions throughout of the themes it would link the curriculum and the video perfectly. The course is designed around different age groups (birth to six years). The video does not mention the age groups or how each play area could be used for the different age categories. Throughout the Aistear syllabus examples are given for babies, toddlers and young children and Mary does not implement this important distinction in the video once.The video suggests types of play that are low cost for materials and easy to garnish up using everyday items. The teacher recommends that the play areas be changed annually to preserve boredom for the teacher and the children. However the teacher recommends that the soc io dramatic area should always be present in the classroom exactly does not explain why. Mary talks about the physical layout of the classroom ultimately which I feel was not incumbent as there is a snap off video in the toolkit which explores this topic in great detail.The video in my ruling is not long enough for this topic to be mentioned. This time could have been allocated to the Aistear themes and how they were achieved using the play areas discussed throughout the video. Overall the video has many useful ideas that can well be taken and used to create a playful environment entirely I feel from all the data available to me that there is not a strong enough connection amongst the actually hard copy of Aistear and the video.ReferencesAistear Curriculum www.ncca.ieAistear Toolkit www.ncca.ie/aisteartoolkitVideo Planning and Organising Play http//vimeo.com/21112275