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Framework and Overview of
On-site Training Support at School
Parent Seminar
The seminar allows parents to have first-hand experiences with interactive games, follow up with an explanation session which includes practical tips and techniques on parent-child interactions for playing games at home. Supported by the research of Dr Sylvia Liu on the current social competence in the community, this session aims to help parents to understand further what Play Education is by identifying the positive relationship between playing interactive games and social-emotional learning.
Parent Workshop
The experiential learning workshops provide both technique illustrations and practices of Play Education with our professional game trainers. The parents would learn different skills, from giving instructions to lead game activities, encouraging children with positive reinforcement, facilitating reflections, to designing interactive games in order to develop children’s social-emotional learning. The parents would also be able to reconnect with their innate joy, sensitivity and playfulness as a child by participating in these interactive games with children. This workshop would be complemented with feedback from our trainers during the debriefing sessions.
Parent In-class Practice
The in-class practice sessions provide valuable opportunities for the parents to apply and hone the Play Education concepts and techniques learned from the parent workshops. The parents will be guided to rehearse the games and apply the skills under different themes each session, and will receive a recap and some feedback from our professional game trainers afterwards. This session aims to boost parents’ confidence and skills in facilitating interactive games with children.
Teacher Seminar
The teacher seminar would provide academic theoretical concepts on Play Education for the teachers with the illustration of the “Social Star Mirror Model” (「社交閃星星」學習概念模型) (Liu, 2015). The seminar will also demonstrate these concepts and techniques by presenting possible ways for teachers to incorporate interactive game elements in daily teachings, thus prepare them for the teacher workshop.
Teacher Workshop
The workshop would illustrate the applications of Play Education in the form of different activities. Teachers would experience gamified teaching activities and construct their own approach of integrating game elements to their current teaching plans under the guidance of our professional Play Education specialists, providing abundant game examples and case studies as references.
Class Observation
The Play Education specialists would observe how teachers integrated the elements of interactive games into their daily teaching and provide feedback accordingly so as to facilitate teachers to further improve their play based learning activities.
Play Ambassador Training
Teacher and parent participants who have potential would receive further training with an aim to develop future Play Ambassadors who can contribute to the community in the future.
Parent Support Training
The Project also provides positive behaviour support training for parents, teachers and parent volunteers of children who may need extra guidance during interactive game activities.