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Why play?
Why play?
The world never stops changing, so how do we prepare children to navigate it? We let them PLAY. Children thrive on PLAY. Given the chance to think, negotiate, adapt to new rules and try again when things don’t go to plan, children develop essential skills that’ll last a lifetime. When children play it unlocks their curiosity - setting them up to become lifelong learners. Play boosts mental well-being in children and play is how children learn naturally.
The evidence keeps growing that playing helps children master all the skills they need to thrive in our fast-moving, ever-changing world.
Why Engineering?
Why Engineering?
Engineering tackles problems in the world and how we, as humans, create solutions for them by leveraging multiple disciplines like science, math, psychology, and many more. Students of all ages are capable of engineering, and their ideas can be used to inform their design.
Engineering education emphasizes open-ended iterative problem solving and encourages children to learn from failure. It allows students to identify problems, research and brainstorm solutions, create and test prototypes, make improvements and share their work.
About the TeaCoP Conference
About the TeaCoP Conference
The conference seeks to rethink education in South Asia through play and engineering. It will provide educators with a platform to understand engineering-based playful learning and explore how it can be implemented in our classrooms. The TeaCoP conference seeks to explore what Learning through Play and Engineering education means in a South Asian context and how educators can integrate play into their everyday classrooms.
The two-hour-long conferences will have 2 keynote speeches, hands-on workshops on playful engineering-based learning, and teachers' experience sharing on implementing playful or engineering-based learning in their classrooms.
About TeaCoP (Teaching Community of Play)
About TeaCoP (Teaching Community of Play)
TeaCoP is a community of practice where members of TeaCoP gather every week to discuss, share, reflect, learn and explore different play based teaching/learning approaches. The collaborative learning experience in the weekly gathering is co-developed and co-facilitated by Karkhana Samuha, Karkhana Samuha’s partners, and members of TeaCoP as they work to create a self-sustaining community of practice and establish equity-centered playful learning environments. At present, the community has been curated by Karkhana Samuha, and we plan for the community members to gradually take over the running of the community. The community works towards achieving the following goals
Teachers as Researchers
Enabling teachers to experience learning through play
Strengthening a culture of openness and ownership in teaching
Building a platform to share the joys and frustrations of teaching
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