Facilitating play skills: Efficacy of a staff development program |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Sciences I, Room D440, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4800, USA;2. C.N.R.S./Université Paris-7 UMR 7099, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13, rue Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, F-75005 Paris, France;3. Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1218 Natural Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-3900, USA;1. Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States;2. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States;3. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States;1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States;2. Child & Adolescent Services Research Center, San Diego, CA, United States;3. University of California, San Diego, CA, United States;4. Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego, CA, United States;1. Department of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA;2. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation, University of Florida-Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, USA |
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| Abstract: | Staff members of a day care center took part in a year-long training program designed to help them facilitate a child's ability to learn through play. This paper briefly describes the training objectives and methods used in the first two workshops of this program. An evaluation of the effectiveness of those methods is presented, based on pre-training and post-training observation of interactions between caregivers and children in the day care center. Results indicate that the training was very effective in increasing caregiver verbal involvement with children during play, but was less effective in reducing the number of verbal directives delivered by caregivers in interacting with the children. A negative relationship was found between caregiver's level of education and amount of verbally directive behavior after training, but not before training. |
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