Kindergarten Independent Game Sharing Research

The teacher and children can exchange, communicate and share experience when the play activity is over. We call this as play sharing activities, which is also called play evaluating or play commenting. Play sharing activities are an important part of play. It is helpful in combing and promoting children's scattered experience and enhancing the level of children's play. Observation, experience summary and case study are used in this study. Based on 47 play sharing activities, this study intended to bring to light the process of play sharing and teacher's response. Then dialogue theory is used to analyze these activities from a new perspective.The study analyzed the process of play sharing activities from the following parts: the ways of starting the topics, topics which are talked about, the time of every activity, strategies which are used and the content of these activities. This study found that most activities are started by teachers and children together; play materials and play plot are the major kinds of topics; the time is different for different age groups; some strategies are used to help children to perceive or experience; children can acquire experience of five areas in play sharing activities.Teachers'response consist of reply, comment, repeat, extend, press and so on. On this basis, the study described and analyze the status of teachers'response. Then it summarized the strategies which are used by teachers. Teachers should give voice back to children by asking more questions. To help children to comb scattered experience, teachers should give extended response to children. To tap children's experience in depth, teachers should be ready to drill down into details in play sharing activities.Play sharing is the interaction between children and teachers. Indeed it is exchanging, communicating and dialogue. By using dialogue theory, this research found that the characteristics of play sharing activities are free, reciprocal, experiential and generative. The main forms of dialogue in play sharing activities are dialogue between children and teacher, dialogue between children and children and dialogue between children and themselves.It is found that the play sharing activity is a kind of activity which is of great value. Teachers can help children to share more by using effective response and strategies. And the play sharing activity, essentially, is the process of dialogue. So the teacher should make sure the dialogue environment is open and free and respect children's interest fully. The further discussion is necessary in play sharing activities, because it can help children learning more. Teachers play an important role in providing environment to help children acquire abundant play experience. All those help to realize the value of play sharing activities.