Quality Rating 2: Planning

Lesson Planning Process

In the hustle-bustle of your daily routine, you may never take time to appreciate the careful thought and effort that goes into planning a simple activity so the children in your program experience success. You make it look easy. Yet, all providers and educators realize it is anything but easy to provide purposeful activities for children throughout the day, day after day.

Take a moment to sit and think about all that goes into your lesson planning process. You know so much about the children in your program. How do you use that knowledge in planning activities? How do you make sure that each and every child’s individual needs are met? How do you translate your curriculum into daily lessons and activities?

This section guides you to think about the process you follow in developing purposeful activities and meaningful experiences for the children in your program. To meet the requirements for Developmentally Appropriate Learning and Practice: Planning: DAP 5.2 (DAP 4.2 – School-Age Only), you will submit a statement that describes your lesson planning process.

Select the Requirements tab to learn about key information to include in your statement.