1. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.1 Chapter 8: Exploring Your Role in Planning for Children’s Learning

2. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.2 Importance of Planning What do you feel are the most important concepts to consider while planning classroom activities?

3. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.3 Types of Planning Long Term  Yearly  Semester  Quarterly  Unit or Project Short Term  Weekly  Daily

4. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.4 Essential Components of Good Planning Know the children  Child development and learning  Individual needs, abilities, and interests  Social and cultural contexts Know the content and concepts to be taught Plan a variety of experiences for diverse learners Plan appropriate methods of assessment Plan to reflect on your teaching Allow time to plan ahead

5. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.5 Elements of Effective Planning Goals and objectives Processes and procedures Activities and lessons Assessment and evaluation Differentiation

6. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.6 Planning a Project Phase 1: Getting Started  Have several discussions to select and refine topic  Brainstorm ideas and make a web of topics and questions to be answered Phase 2: Field Work  Provide many opportunities for direct investigations Phase 3: Culminating and Debriefing Events  Prepare and present the results of the investigations in various ways

7. Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 8.7 Planning an Integrated Unit 1.What is the core concept? 2.What is the topic or unit focus? 3.What are the content areas that will be integrated? 4.What are the materials, resources, and field trips needed? 5.What is the culminating activity? 6.How will the unit be introduced? 7.How will children’s learning be assessed? How will the teacher be evaluated? How will the unit be improved?