Assignment task: For your initial post, you will share with your classmates how you currently create lesson plans if you are in an early childhood setting. If you are not currently in an early childhood setting, you will share with classmates how you would create them if you were currently working with children.
In your initial post, discuss the following items. Give specific detailed examples. Also, feel free to share lesson plans or templates you use.
1. How do you plan with goals and objectives in mind? Explain your answer.
2. Do you use the traditional lesson plan with the five days across the top and centers/areas down the side with activities filled into the grid? Explain your answer.
3. Do you sit with the children daily and use the Plan-Do-Review with them? Explain your answer.
4. Do you use a computer-generated curriculum such as Creative Curriculum? Explain your answer.
5. Does your program provide a lesson plan already filled out for you and you just follow it, or do you use another tool? Explain your answer.
6. What else you would like to share with your peers about curriculum design and lesson planning?