LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, students should be able to: plan playful educational activities, adapting them to the different children’s ages and school grades; choose games and animation techniques that can foster the selected educational objectives; launching and conducting games appropriately; evaluating recreational and playful activities with children and peers.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The purposes of the course are:

1. You have to know, project and manage appropriately entertaining games;
2. You will acquire skills about effective comunication, build significant educational relationships through th use of game and entertainmenet methodologies;
3. You will manage some dynamics about small group

TEACHING METHODS

Students will be involved and made actors of some group-works, simulations and practices (“mettiamoci in gioco”) and of the following think moment. 

We will use videos and slides to present some themes and to support activities.

Aulaweb will be useful for teacher to upload some files and for students to support your personal  path and to give some file to the group.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Students will be involved and made actors of some group-works, simulations and practices (“mettiamoci in gioco”) and of the following think moment.

Especially we will deal with:

1) GIOCO E ACCOGLIENZA: presentation games, small and big games, create games;

2) GIOCO E APPRENDIMENTO : mathmatical games, word games,story-telling games;

3) GIOCO E ARTE: play with art

4) GIOCO E NATURA: play with nature.

Being a laboratory where the learners will be required to actively participate.

Contents are set on play base learning relating to Scuola Infanzia and game play learning relating to different subjects for Scuola Primaria.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

During the workshop, material will be provided (it will also be included in the aulaweb for better sharing) useful for in-depth analysis of the themes tested to promote the circularity between practice and reflection on practice.