School Playground: your Biggest Wasted Resource?

Date: Tuesday 8 May 2012
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Location: Greymouth
Contact: For further information regarding this event, please contact Rebecca McIlroy by sending email to edplus@canterbury.ac.nz or by calling 03 367 0700
Audience: The general public

playground audit to make their playground a positive place and a valuable curriculum resource. Data gathering informed the changes which included attitudinal changes by teachers to duty, and most importantly, the active participation of all students in a play-filled
playground.

Take another look at your playground! This is the natural context for developing skills in social competence but, for many students, it is where they are vulnerable and unhappy. It is the place where inclusion is vigorously tested for those students who can manage their behaviour in the classroom but not in the playground.Cost $238. For enrolment information please contact UC Education Plus.