What does facilitating play mean?

Question

I am doing a paper for my Child Development class and I'm suppose to discuss the teacher's style of facilitating play. But what does it mean?!? Any examples of what it is?

Answer 1

Facilitating - making possible, giving facilities to enable something :)

a·cil·i·tate     Audio Help   /fəˈsɪlɪˌteɪt/ Pronunciation Key - [fuh-sil-i-teyt] Pronunciation Key -

–verb (used with object), -tat·ed, -tat·ing.

1. to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.): Careful planning facilitates any kind of work.

2. to assist the progress of (a person).

Answer 2

You are bascially the person who is responsible for making play possible and supervising, but not interacting. Most pre-school students will not interact when they first meet or at many times throughout their day unless the activity is first modeled to them. It's a lot like being a wedding planner. You set up mostly the entire thing, then stand back and watch others have fun. You only intervene when you need to, but are otherwise just an observer.