Individual Education Plan for Early Childhood Learning

This article discusses the importance of an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for early childhood learning. It provides a case study of a fictitious child named Zifa and constructs an inclusive education plan for her. The article includes a description of the child, an IEP form, and comments on the data. It also includes SMART goals and a reference list.

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Individual Education Plan

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Table of contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Description of the child...................................................................................................................3
Individual education plan form........................................................................................................4
Comments on the data...................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
Appendices....................................................................................................................................12
Reference list.................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
Early childhood learning education plan is an effective tool to nurture little children with basic
learning process. The education plan is developed on observing the child and identifying the
strength, abilities and area of interest. This piece of information will help the educator to develop
education plans by identifying specific needs of the child. Moreover, the plan will also help to
establish certain goals that bring natural development to the child. The entire process of IEP
learning involves collaborations of teachers and parents. Data contributed by the stakeholders
helps the educator to develop the child socially, emotionally and cognitively. This paper will
throw light on a provided fictitious child Zifa and construct an inclusive education plan for her.
Description of the child
Zifa is a 4yrs 9 month old girl who goes to an early childhood setting in Melbourne. Zifa has a
2yr sister and lives with her mom and dad. Zika enjoys family time in her holidays visiting new
places. Zifa’s mother reports Zifa to be stubborn and feisty. Zifa makes unusual perspective at
times that is totally imaginary. For instance, she narrates things as if she has remembered every
incidents while being part of it. She narrates her experience when she was born. She is slightly
challenged in her auditory processing. Zifa is very much fond of Ballet and can catch TV for 2
hours continuously. Zifa tries to perform ballet but often falls short of concentration.
Zifa is a beloved daughter and the same is reciprocated from her end. She prefers to socialize by
interacting with people. It is a very good sign that at such as young age she developed a sense of
socialization with people that is something her peer rarely understands. Zifa, having great humor
sense has also a keen interest towards knowing new things. She speaks confidently with people
thrice her age and while placing opinion to anybody she is determined. Unlike other children of
her age, she is not scared of needle neither she weeps when she is sick. She can remember things
from her past years. Zifa’s attendance to school is worth mentioning, Zifa likes to go to school
every day. Zifa is an obedient child who listens to her parent. Without much delay she gets
ready for school whenever she is asked for. Throughout the way she talks about her daily
activities and extra-curricular classes after school. This implies that she enjoys her learning and

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day care activities. Zifa has interest towards indoor and outdoor games; she creates her
imagination and plays role in it.
Zifa is a caring sister as noted from the case study. They share toys, room and various other
things. Zifa shows interest on e-learning since finds fun in reading eggs with her sister. Her
character shows she cocoons Saskia and shows compassion when she was unwell and helping
her with parents knowledge. Regardless, Zifa sometimes jealous over Saskia because her child
psychology makes her feel left out. This time she is furious and lashes out Saskia.
Zifa blends well with unfamiliar people around her. She stays active for most of the time of the
day. She prefers to follow a routine based work but hates repetition of it. For this reason she is
tricked by her patents and is taught the same topic every day but from different book. She finds it
less attractive to open same book everyday even during bed time stories however she prefers to
stay at large from puzzles and books. In recent days Zifa is taking interest on sports as well such
as swimming, gymnastics. Her excitement mounts while expecting to top Loreto on swimming.
Her auditory challenges have never been an obstacle in her dreams and life style (Arishi et al.
2017). Hence setelling in a regular school won’t be a problem for her since it would have a
regular routine what she likes and there she has some of her known peer group.
Individual education plan form
Understanding the child
Child’s name: Zifa Date ……/……/……
Child’s Strengths
Beloved daughter, socialize, interactive, talkative, creative, active learner, eager to know more
Child’s Interests
Painting, ballet dancing, reading stories, swimming, learning through video, playing outdoor, and
playing indoor with sister. Zifa takes more interest these days in sports such as gymnastics and
Confident to come first in everything.

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EDUCATION PLAN
Child’s name: Zifa Date ……/……/……
Sl.no Goals Why are we
planning
this
Strengths
Related to
Goal
Strategies to
Achieve Goal
Actions
& Time-
Line
Evaluation
procedures
1 To develop
sense of
responsibility
Zifa
sometimes
misbehaves
with her
sister in
order to seek
more
attention
from her
parents.
Hence it is
important to
develop a
sense of
responsibility
in her
(Ametepee &
Anastasiou,
2015)
Zifa loves
her sister
Saskia
She is an
obedient
girl
listening
to parents
and
teachers.
She would be
involved more
into in role
play actions
where the
children will
play role of
family member
to understand
the
importance. It
will also
develop a
sense of
responsibility
(Holmberg &
Jeyaprathaban,
2017).
1 week The
outcome
can be
evaluated
through
parent
teacher
interaction
in the next
meet.
2. To develop
sense of unity
During role
play in
observation 1
Zifa is
interactive
and loves
Zifa along with
other children
can be
1 week The
outcome
can easily

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it was
observed
Zifa was less
responded to
her
questions.
Other
children
were busy
with their
play so
developing a
sense of
unity is
important
where the
children will
learn that
they share
equal and
same
belonging
making
new
friends
introduced to
an interactive
sessions where
every children
will be taught
listening skills
be evaluated
by kinder
teacher any
time on
exposure to
a similar
situation.
3. To enhance
taking
responsibility
Zifa was
confused
while
making the
mask
regarding
cutting eye
area. So
reflecting on
Zifa has
Strong
passion
for
creativity
The kinder
teacher can
assist Zifa to
seek
suggestions
from her
friends. This
would also
benefit her
Single
day
It can be
evaluated
with the
repetition of
same
classroom
activity on
the other
day

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her own
work she
could invite
suggestions
from her
mates for any
other
alternative
designs
collaboration
and social
communicative
skills
(Petersen,
2016). Asking
suggestion
from peers will
also diversify
her knowledge
like what other
kind of masks
she can make.
4. Learn to deal
with dynamic
scenarios
Zifa finds
difficult to
adjust herself
to cope up
then there in
a breakdown
in
predictability
and
constancy.
Zifa is
obedient
and a
social
learner
Zifa will be set
with examples
of her friends
who never do
such things.
She will be
counseled so
that she
develops a
sense of
similar
belonging with
other learners.
She can be
engaged into
attractive
activities such
as coloring and
Few
weeks to
months
Evaluation
of the
outcome
requires
cooperation
of her
mother.
Building
certain
situations
purposefully
will benefit
achieving
the goal

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making
animals with
clay.
5 To improve
attention
skills
Zifa was
inattentive in
the group
and more
focused in
physical
contact with
her friend.
She believes
crying can
help sorting
things easily
Zifa should be
permitted to
everything she
desires.
Among so
many friends
preferring a
single one
distracts unity
in children.
She should be
made to realize
everyone is a
friend there so
she should
share
everyone.
with few
weeks to
months
Rotational
sitting
arrangement
of the
children
6 To educate
acting as per
situation
Zifa is too
young to
understand
time, place
and
situations
hence she
cannot
differentiate
between a
play center
Zifa is a
quick
learner.
She thus
easily
catches up
things
what she
sees in her
friends.
She can be
made to
understand the
differences
between timely
activities. She
should be
trained to do
independently
without
indulging into
Few
days
Zifa’s
actions and
responses
are
evaluated
everyday

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and home.
For this she
often
demands
such things
that are not
possible
during the
time (Engsig
& Johnstone,
2017).
other actions.
She can be
shown
different
examples
where children
can make lot
of fun after
kindergarten
class is over.
She can even
encourage
leaving early
for her hobby
classes.
To build
sense of
understanding
and identity
It will help
the children
to explore
their skills
and
creativity
Zifa has
creative
mind,
loves
drawing
Zifa can be
given art work
to do so that
she can
improve
herself more.
She can be
excelled in
clay modeling,
drawing and
coloring. This
will also help
her to develop
a pattering and
coloring
knowledge.
months Individual
assessments
and
assigned
tasks will
help to
evaluate the
progress
(Gebhardt
etal. 2015).

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Review Date:............................................
Comments on the data
observations analysis
general Zifa likes to socialize with
new people. She has good
listening skills. She pays
attention to her parents when
she is explained something
new. She has keen interest to
learn new things making new
friends. She acts bravely when
her sister is ill and defends her
from nasty peers.
Observation 1
Role play
Zifa has strong sense of
responsibility she obeys her
teacher. When she asked to
clean the table, without going
into arguments, she simply
joined other children in the
process. Moreover she neither
disarray things in the office.
She learns mannerism from
the educators by sharing
tables. Zifa enters into role
playing game and agrees to
play role of a big sister
without prioritizing her choice
Observation 2 Zifa’s creative nature motives

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Mask making her. Since she has a good
memory, she remembered
mask making shown in TV
and tries the concept by
herself. The kinder teacher
encouraged her for self-help to
finish the process. She did
everything very sincerely
while handling the scissors.
However, She encountered a
few problems in finding things
but her enthusiasm never
stopped her. Finally the mask
was not up to her expectation
but she renamed it as per it’s
looks. While doing her work
she even answered other’s
query. Her craft was to perfect
but she was confident with her
job and engaged in playing.
Observation 3
narrative
Zifa is not very much
pampered child but she is very
much attached with her
parents emotionally. She feels
something important missing
from her daily schedule when
she missed to say her mother
goodbye. Her stubborn nature
gets expressed on failing her
predictability. Hence she is
ignorant of any professional

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behavior.
Observation 4
Sitting arrangement
Zifa is little destructive to
other children and inattentive
sometimes. She favors and
demands for her preference,
failing upon which starts
crying. So one more time her
adamant nature is
preponderance.
Conclusion
The education plan created for Zifa will help the tutors to correct her and develop her growing
process. It will also prevail a learning environment that promotes sense of unity among learners.
If the children develop their sense of responsibility earlier and learn to act accordingly in social
circumstances, she can easily get admitted to a regular school. Inclusive education plan helps the
parents of the child to know them better for instance, how they behave socially or what kind of
panic is bothering the child. Hence this can be established that inclusive learning plan is an
essential tool for both learners and educators in order for self-assessment and developmental
process.

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Appendices
SMART goals
Specific Think more deeply before implementing
necessary actions that will bring behavioral
change in Zifa
Measurable The desired changes will be assessed by
frequent interaction with kinder tutor and
Zifa’s parents
Achievable Yes it is achievable through cooperation of
teachers and parents
Relevant Zifa is too young hence she can be modified to
learn mannerism and skills while in school
therefore the goal is relevant
Time based Few months from the date of implementation

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