Quality Rating 4: 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 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 and explain the process you follow to plan activities and learning experiences for children. You will submit a statement that describes your planning process as documentation for Developmentally Appropriate Learning and Practice: Planning: DAP 4.4 (School-Age Only).

Select the Requirements tab to learn about key information to include in your description of your lesson planning process.