As a teacher, I'm a planner and the idea of the children coming each in day and not knowing what we will be doing that day just doesn't compute with me! I know that as Early Education educators we are supposed to base everything on the children's interests and as much as I love this I also need to ne prepared! Will I follow my plan for the day to a tee? Absolutely not! Will I extend the activities based on children's interests? Most definitely! If my children are suddenly all about dinosaurs, then of course I will provide lot's of activities about dinosaurs but not having a plan means I don't have materials organised, I would scrambling to find them all and as a result, I just don't think my activities could be as meaningful as possible.
So, I downloaded a few different planning/programming templates but I didn't really get them or they seemed too complicated. I love the Starskills planners and how they have the EYLF outcomes across the top but I also loved Arlee's (from My Small Potatoes) S.P.I.C.E acronym for how she plans her day. So mushing these altogether in a workable program, I created this template for myself and here is my first week of planning organised (Normally I'm open 5 days but we were on holidays the first two days)
Love the idea of having the picture of the craft on programming as I'm a visual person.
So do you have a simpler way of programming? I would love to hear yours!
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