Early Childhood Education Lesson Planning Essentials

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Date of lesson planning:_________________________ Classroom grade:_________________________ Date of lesson implementation:____________________ School/center:____________________________ Cooperating teacher signature:____________________ Name of the lesson segment:________________ Field supervisor signature:________________________ Content areas:____________________________ Context of The Lesson (1) Briefly explain how is this lesson related to the classroom’s ongoing curriculum and where does this lesson fit in a sequence of lessons? (2) Provide a brief description of your knowledge about the personal/cultural/community assets of this group of children and their prerequisite skills related to language and literacy development. Why am I having this lesson...think about what was going on in the classroom and how my lesson fits in. This is based on children in classroom at this moment…Make a statement about the background of the children. Central Focus of The Lesson List 2-3 professional learning standards (see websites below) that your lesson will meet: Primary lessons: Illinois early learning standards (http://www.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/pdf/early_learning_standards.pdf) Primary lessons: Illinois common core standards (http://www.isbe.net/common_core/) All lessons: Illinois social/emotional learning standards (http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_emotional/standards.htm) for all lessons: Infant/toddler lessons: Illinois early learning guidelines for children birth to age 3 (http://illinoisearlylearning.org/guidelines/index.htm) Please articulate: (1) what SPECIFIC, measurable core concepts, skills, and vocabularies from the learning standards that children will learn from this lesson (e.g., children will identify five different shapes, including square, rectangle, oval, octagon, and pentagon)? What do you want to accomplish in this lesson? (2) What content area does this lesson fit into? Pre-Assessment of Core Concepts/Skills (1) Assess what children already know about the specific core concepts, skills, and vocabularies that you aim to teach in this lesson BEFORE its implementation. Revise the central focus of the lesson if it is too hard or too easy for children based on the assessment. (2) The assessment can be formal or informal, and in the format of rubric, rating scale, checklist, frequency count, anecdotal recording, and etc; Check off to confirm: _______The pre-assessment has been done before the lesson implementation. Design an assessment to evaluate exactly where children are in terms of the skills that you aim to teach in the lesson (you will evaluate again after the lesson implementation to see how much children have learned). Planning for Instruction Describe the ways in which the lesson addresses the active and multimodal nature of children’s learning and language/literacy development (e.g., multiple senses, multiple methods, multiple developmental domains, and interdisciplinary context). Think about Gardner’s multi-intelligence and developmentally appropriate practice.... Describe the developmentally appropriate materials supporting the central focus/learning goals of this lesson. (2) How would you use the educational and technological resources available within the community if that applies (e.g., museum, library, fire station). (3) List possible resources for both teachers and children (make sure to include references in APA style). Describe materials needed to complete this lesson. #2 and 3 should be addressed when appropriate. (1) Describe at the beginning of the lesson, how would you introduce its central focus to children and engage their interests? (2) Describe at the end of the lesson, how would you summarize and loop back to ensure that children understand its central focus and extend their language and literacy development? How are you going to introduce the lesson and how are you going to wrap up by the end? (1) What kind of active and multimodal activities would be available for the variety of learners...