Early Childhood Education Curriculum Design

This document provides a detailed template for designing an experience or activity for young children within an early childhood education setting. It guides users through identifying learning standards, engaging children, scaffolding their learning, assessing progress, and refining the activity for continuous improvement. The template includes sections on context, learning experiences, resources, assessment strategies, and suggestions for making the activity more effective.

Experience/Activity Curriculum Design Template
Step 1
What knowledge, skills and behaviours do you want your children to be able to
demonstrate at the end of this experience/activity?
Knowledge Skills Behaviours
Number,
shapes and
colours
Grasping, holding
Communication with
educators
The Standards
What levels, which domains, which dimensions will be addressed by this
experience/activity?
This activity will improve learning and development activities such as numerical
abilities, motor skills and memory of children. Physical development and health and
general competencies will be addressed by this activity.
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Experience/Activity Curriculum Design Template
What elements of this experience/activity are critical for the children to understand?
Play and learn activities must include physical space of play, safe environment, active
engagement, and intrinsic motivation
What are the relevant curriculum objectives for this experience/activity?
To improve physical development of children
To develop creativity through play
To develop language development through play
To improve social development
To improve cognitive development
Step 2
Determine what counts as acceptable evidence of the knowledge, skills and behaviours,
listed in Step 1, you want children to learn. Explicitly list them below: (You can share these
with your children to give them a clear picture of what they will be learning)
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What will count as evidence of learning?
Improved communication and socialize with peers and educators, improved physical activities
such as holding pencils and other objects
List knowledge, skills and behaviours students will demonstrate if they display an
understanding of this activity/experience.
Evaluation of their activities that has been targeted and the present activities they have been
performing will enable the educators identifying the gap. Their improved skills, knowledge
and behaviours will be marked in assessment sheet
What assessment tasks will allow the students to show their knowledge, skills, behaviours
and understandings of this experience/activity?
Their classroom performance and activity
Step 3: Consider where the learner is at in relation to the desired capabilities and evidence
you identified earlier in Step 1:
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What evidence do I currently have of the children’s knowledge, skills and understandings
about this experience/activity?
List the actual evidence and what it shows, include anecdotal observations.
The children have been showing improvement in their communication and they also are
more socializing with other learners as well as will the staffs. Previously some of the children
were not willing to mix with the educators. Children further understands the instructions and
different play methods that they are engaged in for their learning and development. Children
have developed their cognitive skills by identifying objects, colours and the procedure of play
and learn.
Do I need to find out anything else about the learner before I start planning? How will I get
this information?
I must identify educational needs of a child so that I have adequate understanding about
his/her learning disability. This information I can obtain from the parents or medical records n
reports if available. If no information is available, I need to identify learning abilities and
disabilities through observation and communication with other staffs in the education and
development institute.
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Step 4 Plan learning experiences that will enable learner/learners to achieve the standards
identified.
How will I engage the children into this experience/activity?
I will design new game plans to achieve targeted objective and engage the children in the
new game plan
What Contexts, Learning experiences, Assessment For/As Learning and resources will they
need to effectively learn?
Contexts Learning
experiences
Assessment
For/As Learning
Resources
Learning ability
improvement
Improvement
evaluation
Assessment
plan
Within and
outside centre
List the strategies you will use to coach and scaffold children’s learning
Use of first language
Use of gesture or modelling
Graphic organizers
Visuals and relia
Read aloud
Sentence structures
Connect to background knowledge
Small group work
Check a range of learning styles are catered for in this experience/activity. List below:
Auditory learning style
Visual learning style
Kinesthetic Learning Style
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Check if children will be engaged in deep levels of thinking through the experiences in this
experience/activity. List the elements that will challenge the learners.
The learners will be affected by previous negative experiences that he has obtained
previously. Additionally it is very time consuming as the learners need to get the previous
incidents that has happened in order to develop knowledge and skills.
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Step 5 How will this experience/activity be assessed
Criteria – develop criteria from the standards identified in Step 1, write/type them in the
criteria row, one criteria for each cell.
Strong knowledge and understanding of child development
Know individual children
Social and cultural expectations of the community in which the child live in
Effective planning and teaching practice of child development
Scaffold children’s learning
Use of variety of teaching methods
Identify approaches that will differ and change
Be a lifelong learner
Step 6 How could this experience/activity be improved
Suggest ways to improve/adapt this experience:
Use different methods for supporting styles of teaching
Speak aloud
Appropriate use of planning and implementation of learning
Evaluation and assessment of learning
Engage learners in the learning process
Use of sequential, simultaneous and structured approach
Break learning into small steps to achieve final objective
Model instruction practices and well designed practice
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