SIX BRICKS TRAINING LEVEL 1
This Level 1 is a 1-day course designed to engage participants with short activities which focus on hand muscle training and body coordination. You will be guided to build simple tasks, share, listen, and learn a new modality to enhance the quality of learning.
You will experience the element of play in developing the critical domains in learning. The activities that will be explained and demonstrated in this training course are designed to develop children’s
- Perceptual skills
- Language skills
- Numeracy skills
- Executive functions
- Problem-solving skills
- Working memory and attention span
Besides a whole repertoire of hands-on Through facilitated discussions throughout the course, you will explore in specific ways how this versatile, and scalable tool could be used for your own audience.
You will receive a training package which include materials and activity cards.
Learning Outcomes for Level 1: (SKILL, KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCIES)
- Understand what is SIX BRICKS
- Understand the importance of play
- Understand what the importance of executive functions
- Experience a set of basic Six Bricks activities
- Able to conduct simple Six Bricks activities
- Understand the concept of playful learning through this set of basic activities
- Able to design a range of basic activities that suit your target audience
- Enjoy being playful
With this course,
- Become a play advocate and a Six Brick practitioner in your fields
- Design curriculum to suit target audience in your area of needs
- Enhance the learning outcomes of your target audience
- Learn a new play modality as a Play Therapist
- Join the community and be a Six Brick Trainer
Course Pre-requisite:
- Basic English Proficiency
- Willingness to play
- Mandatory to progress the course from Level 1, to Level 2 and Advance.
Detailed Course Write Up:
| Components | Content for LEVEL 1 |
| Ice Breaker – 15mins | High 5 Greeting |
| Introduction- 1 hour | What is 6 Bricks? |
| Executive Function & Development Areas | |
| Workshop Activities – | |
| 1 hours | Tactile Activity |
| How do we learn? | |
| Colour Fun | |
| Favourite Colours | |
| Listen & Do | |
| Tea-Break (15min) | |
| Workshop Activities – 1hr | Move Your Body |
| Blind Build | |
| Tricky Tower | |
| Topsy Towers | |
| Remember it | |
| More Memory Games | |
| Lunch Break (1hr) | |
| Cover it (Use dice) | |
| Creationary | |
| Moving Around Mat | |
| Crossing the B-Line Mat | |
| Tea-Break (15min) | |
| Assessment (1hr) | Focused Group Discussion and Design of Task |
| Evaluation (1hr) | Presentation of Assignment |
| Feedback (15min) | Sharing and Survey |