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Effective Curriculum Planning for Early Childhood Education

Learn how to plan engaging lessons, develop curriculum, and identify child interests and needs. Understand curriculum standards and practice. Explore thematic teaching, developmental skills, and activity planning steps for effective instruction in early childhood education.

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Effective Curriculum Planning for Early Childhood Education

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  1. Chapter 4 Instructional Planning

  2. Objectives • Complete a written activity or lesson plan • Describe approaches to curriculum development

  3. Objectives • Describe a teaching unit (theme) approach to early childhood instruction • Outline preparation steps in theme construction

  4. Curriculum Standards and Practices • Well-known standards • Nationally legislated standards • State standards • Purpose of standards • Educator’s task

  5. Identifying Child Interests and Needs • Young children’s attitudes and learning behaviors • Using child interest and improvising • Curriculum models

  6. Curriculum • Child-centered • Child-initiated • Active learning

  7. Curriculum • Constructivism • predict and manipulate objects • pose questions and research answers • imagine, investigate and invent • Developmentally Appropriate Practice

  8. Curriculum • Activity resources • Curriculum design • Activity planning • Assessment and curriculum planning

  9. Objectives • Instructional objectives • More general in nature and may defy measurement • Specific behavioral objectives • More detailed and measurable

  10. Developmental Skills • Planning for skill attainment • Getting started • Procedure • Discussion • Application • Evaluation after presentation

  11. Other Activity Plan Areas • Promoting cognitive skills • Using community resources

  12. Other Activity Plan Areas • Pitfalls with lesson plans • Teaching tips • Room environments

  13. Thematic Teaching • Possible instructional benefits • Possible limitations or weaknesses • Thematic subsections

  14. Thematic Teaching • How to construct a thematic unit • Saturated environment • Project approach • Planning outdoor activities • Work ethic activities

  15. Summary • Planning, presenting and assessing activities is part of student teaching • Written activity plans allow close examination of planned activities • Consultation with cooperating teachers and college supervisors aids in development

  16. Summary • Discussed • Preparing a lesson plan • Thematic unit teaching

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