Explain how the Early Years practitioner provides for: group learning, socialisation

Qualification: Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Educator
Unit: Unit 3.4: Contribute to enabling play environments
Learning outcome: 2 Understand how the Early Years practitioner supports children’s behaviour and socialisation within play environments
Assessment criteria: 2.4 Explain how the Early Years practitioner provides for: group learning, socialisation

• Group learning refers to play activities in which children learn together as part of a group
• This is effective for older children who are are learning to play alongside one another and play cooperatively together as they develop their social skills
• Younger children will not show as much interest in playing with their peers and may not have the attention span to focus on the play activity
• Socialisation refers to the skills, behaviours and values that children develop to enable them to interact and mix with others and behave in a way that is socially acceptable
• Therefore, the practitioner must take the age and social development of children into account when planning activities
• Group learning activities can include reading a book together and discussing it, arts and crafts, sensory play and role play.