Early Childhood Education Lesson Planning Essentials

Early Childhood Education Lesson Plan Teacher Candidate:_______________________ Date of lesson planning:_________________________ Classroom grade:_________________________ Date of lesson implementation:____________________ School/center:____________________________ Cooperating teacher signature:____________________ Name of the lesson segment:________________ Field supervisor signature:________________________ Content areas:____________________________ Context of The Lesson (1) Briefly explain how is this lesson related to the classroom’s ongoing curriculum and where does this lesson fit in a sequence of lessons? (2) Provide a brief description of your knowledge about the personal/cultural/community assets of this group of children and their prerequisite skills related to language and literacy development. Why am I having this lesson...think about what was going on in the classroom and how my lesson fits in. This is based on children in classroom at this moment…Make a statement about the background of the children. Central Focus of The Lesson List 2-3 professional learning standards (see websites below) that your lesson will meet: Primary lessons: Illinois early learning standards (http://www.isbe.state.il.us/earlychi/pdf/early_learning_standards.pdf) Primary lessons: Illinois common core standards (http://www.isbe.net/common_core/) All lessons: Illinois social/emotional learning standards (http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_emotional/standards.htm) for all lessons: Infant/toddler lessons: Illinois e