Chapter 4 Instructional Planning

1. Chapter 4Instructional Planning CD 23 Dr. Gallegos

2. Activity In your table groups, identify which activity plan section needs greater attention (put a 1 with the activity that needs immediate attention) by the student teacher in the following situations and come up with resolution for each. • A. Danielle is presenting an activity with her collection of seashells. She has repeatedly requested that children look while she explains the details of the shells. Most of the children who started the activity are showing signs of disinterest. • B. Francisco introduced a bloat-sinking activity that has children excited to try it. The children start pushing and shoving and crowding. • C. Dean prepared an activity with paper airplanes landing on a tabletop landing strip. Children are zooming loudly and running about the room, interfering with the work of others. The situation is getting out of hand. • D. Clarrie's activity involves making a greeting card. Many children are disappointed because Claire has run out of the metallic paper used for her sample card/ Others are requesting help because their fingers are sticky with glue. • E. Kate’s activity making cinnamon toast until Joey burns his finger on the toaster oven, • F. Sanjay has given detailed verbal explanation of how children should finish the weaving project he has introduced. However, the children see, to have lost interest. • G. During Ann’s project, paint gets on the door handles and the children are unable to turn on the faucets because of slippery hands.

3. Identifying Child Interests • Many experts suggest young children’s attitudes and learning behaviors are the foundation of children’s success. • Adults can encourage or discourage these positive approaches and teacher observation can discern children’s needs for special support and assistance. • Burman (2009) cautions an educator to avoid a curriculum that does not interest or excite, or that does not support children’s thinking or learning styles. • Using children’s interest and improvising • http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/06/22/482768041/the-problem-with-teaching-preschool-teachers

4. Developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) • Constructivism a term relating to constructivist theory based on the belief that children construct knowledge for themselves rather than having it conveyed to them by some external source. This theory is often attributed to the work of Jean Piaget. • A constructivist takes the position that learners must have experiences with hypothesizing and predicting, manipulating objects, posing questions, researching answers, imagining, investigating and inventing for new constructions to be developed. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGls-Z4e6OI

5. Curriculum Continuum • Activity Resources • Curriculum • Preparation for Kindergarten • Assessment • Goal Statements • Monthly, weekly, daily • Play and learning • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XriN7Ks6j84 • Investing in Children • http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/12/12/504867570/how-investing-in-preschool-beats-the-stock-market-hands-down