Correct Answer - Option 4 : I, II and III
All children love to play. Play is a natural instinct of children. It is the natural expression of their needs. It develops the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional growth of a child. Friederich Froebel, the pioneer in childhood education, was of the view that the education of young children should be based on play. He believed that creative play had to be designed so that it could be transformed into creative work.
Advantages of the Play-way method of teaching in a classroom are as follows:
- Playing games is a natural instinct with young children. They not only participate in the games spontaneously, but they can also organize the game effectively.
- Children can create a new game; they devise the rules for playing the game and observe strictly the self-created discipline.
- This helps to nurture the creative skills of children along with the development of several life skills like problem-solving, leadership, rational thinking, self-expression, communication skills, cooperative learning, group living, etc.
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Learning becomes a natural, joyful, and energizing experience. As play is a natural activity, instinctive and joyful, children do not feel learning as a burden and stressful but participate in it voluntarily.
- It provides sufficient scope to the children to fulfil their physical, emotional, and cognitive needs.
- Physical development and acquisition of motor skills depend upon the maturation of the parts of the body and the opportunities available to the child to practice these skills. Play provides the child with opportunities to practice.
- Play situations provide opportunities to handle and examine objects and explore the surroundings which help children to find answers to the questions in their minds and to understand the reason why things happen the way they do. By allowing children to play as they like, will help them in learning.
- Play allows children to discover and learn for themselves. To discover means to find out about things and events for oneself
- It helps to build healthy student-teacher and student-student relationships.
- In a play-way method, learning takes place through activities and learners remain active, not passive.
From the above, it is clear that all the statements mentioned in the question regarding the advantages of the play-way method are true.
