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TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGY OF ADAPTATION
PROBLEM AND SCHOOL FEAR
Examples from the process
Example 3 - France
WE PLAY WITH BOXES
The pedagogical choice is to welcome and support the spontaneous
activity of children in a motor exploration situation with material usually not
used in school – cartons of various sizes and fabrics. These allow a wide
diversity of learning in the following areas: language, becoming a student,
acting and expressing oneself with one's body and discovering the world.
Children are provided with cartons of all sizes. The game is free form.
Children have to respect 3 rules – do not hurt or harm others, do not
damage cartons, we play and we pretend.
The session is divided in 3 parts:
1. Regrouping children – welcome, hello and a reminder of the rules,
2. Time to play. The adult observes, takes notes, makes sure the rules are
respected, encourages and reassures.
3. Time to regroup and talk about what happened (symbolization – we
pretended to ..., we built a house, a tower...), reminder of the rules when
they were not respected, talking about emotions (when we were afraid,
when we were hurt, when we imagined new games with the boxes).
Each session lasts about 35 minutes.
Benefits of this technique: a better management of the heterogeneity and
the taking into account of students with special educational needs thanks to
a better collaboration with the RASED, the development of oral language,
communication and imagination and the development of rules of life and
respect for others.
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