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KGT-26-03 Completed

Is Your Classroom a Classroom, or a Learning Playground?

17 Oct 2026 6 hours KG / Early Childhood Educators TS Narayanan Guruji Ashram, AGY, Pudupakkam (Main Hall)

About this Session

  • Transform the physical and instructional environment into an active learning space.
  • Use purposeful play, movement and exploration to deepen learning.
  • Design learning corners and experiences that invite participation and choice.
  • Connect classroom resources to clear developmental outcomes.

Key Learning Areas

  • Learning centres and activity zones
  • Multisensory teaching strategies
  • Movement, music, manipulatives and storytelling
  • Low-cost and locally available learning materials
  • Choice, collaboration and learner agency
  • Observation of learning during play

Professional Outcomes

  • Plan a more interactive early-years learning environment
  • Select activities aligned with intended learning outcomes
  • Increase meaningful child participation
  • Use classroom spaces and materials more purposefully
  • Observe and document learning through activity

Take-back to Practice

Learning Playground Blueprint: redesign one classroom area into a purposeful learning zone with activities, materials and expected learning outcomes.

Programme Schedule

Saturday, 17 Oct 2026
9:15 AM
Invocation & Welcome Opening, orientation and programme briefing
9:30 AM
Session 1 Understand: Learning centres and activity zones
11:00 AM
Morning Break Refreshment break
11:15 AM
Session 2 Practise: Multisensory teaching strategies & Movement, music, manipulatives and storytelling
12:45 PM
Lunch Lunch break
1:30 PM
Session 3 Apply: Low-cost and locally available learning materials
3:00 PM
Afternoon Break Refreshment break
3:15 PM
Session 4 Create & Implement: Choice, collaboration and learner agency
4:45 PM
Reflection & Closure Reflection, key takeaways and commitment to application

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