Sandtray Play World Course 2

Sandtray Play Work for academic learning & development

The outcomes and learning of this course for teachers includes:

• Identify how to support children using verbal and non-verbal communication techniques
• Integrating STPW expressive strategies to improve learning
• Learn how to structure the learning and social environments (classroom or STPW area) to best cater for the needs of their children
• Group Practice Sandtray Play Work Room Setup
• Develop teaching programs for academic, emotional and social skills in STPW
• Develop knowledge of a range of strategies to enhance student learning
• Awareness of the types of behaviours frequently exhibited by children with behavioural issues and strategies to manage these using STPW
• Creating Contracts with Children using templates –in order to develop appropriate and proactive environments and behaviour management strategies
• Identify, in the sand worlds of individual children, verbally and non-verbal communication to understand nonverbal communication
• Develop appropriate programmes, to support student understanding, participation, engagement and achievement using STPW framework
• The importance of a pedagogical framework when using Sandtray Play Work – ZPD