My chosen topic for the simulation is recess. Why did I chose recess? "It taught me how to get along with others-whites, African-Americans (Scholastic, 2016). The lack of recess has caused children not to socialize in groups. There is a growing amount of obesity rates amoung young children. Recess let children burn off energy. Children are better focus when they are allowed to run around and swing on the monkey bars.
School systems started to cut back on recess in the 1980 to allow more instructional time. The decision on reces time is decided on the local level. The trend accelerated with the passage of the No Child Left Behind in 2001 and was particularly widespread in urban school with high number of children from marginalized populations (Jarett 2003: Roth et Al. Necs 2006). School reduce recess because of law suites from playgrounds injuries. Recess has been cut by academic pressure for more instructional time or as punishment.
I remember looking forward to recess when I was in school Me and my friends would play on the swings, merry go round or the monkey bars. We would take turns on the swings, merry go round, and the monkey bars. Recess lets you form close relationship with members in your classroom and also you were able to make friends from different classes. The importance of recess can not be stressed enough. "Free play helps to develop problem solving and critical thinking skills" (NAYEC 2009).
What are you thoughts on recess? Do you think that we should bring it back into our school? Studies show that by reducing recess have not increased academic scores. I have listed two of my resources for this blog and I would like to you do you have any insights or resources o this topic. Recess must be brought back into our classroom because it help open up children's mind and form bonds.
References:
Adams, Caralee. (2016). Recess Make Kids Smarter.
National Association Education of Young Children. (2009). Recess-It's Indispensable.
Larry
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful topic! While I work in a child care center with very young children, I do know that even the children in our 4K class have very limited outside time. I do feel that play and outside time do help children develop many of the social and emotional skills they need. And I would also have to agree that the lack of outside time has caused many issues like obesity with the younger population. I have also heard that your brain needs exercise to learn, so I feel that we do need to increase the amount of time that children have to engage in free play and outside time.
If I come across anything I will share it with you!
Cindy
Larry,
ReplyDeleteI too believe that recess is an integral part of education. Even now, as we study we see the importance of taking a break from studying. Recess doesn't even really have to be a break from learning. Children just have to think that it is. I remember coming up that we didn't have recess. We had PE. It was structured but we got to play things like duck, duck...goose and jump rope. We were active but we learned things like the importance of following ruls and procedures and teamwork.
Larry,
ReplyDeleteYour topic is so important to children and the opportunities to learn. Children learn best when given the opportunity to move freely and take risks. Children learn best when they can do so through multi-sensory experiences and they do this more during recess and other times where gross motor activity is allowed.