Early Childhood Lesson Plan Template 2024
Early Childhood Lesson Plan Template 2024
Early Childhood Lesson Plan Template 2024
Child/Children’s Background Knowledge: What is your starting point – what does the child/children already know, what have they done before, how does
this experience connect to or build on their existing knowledge/ interests?
Teacher Focus/ Intentionality: What areas will you concentrate on eg; teaching strategies, EYLF practice principles, interests, equity?
Environment and Resources: What resources and materials will you need to have collected? Where will the experience take place? Considerations for
time, space and teacher support? How will the environment be prepared?
Assessment Strategies: How will you identify what the child/children have learnt and how will you record this?
Stage Approx. Pre-Service Teacher’s Actions Child Actions /Tasks
Plan for all stages Time (full What will you do during this time? What prompting What will the children be doing during this time?
of the experience day? questions might you need to prepare? How might you
Morning? assess and record learning? How will you cater for
Specific individual differences?
time? Eg 12-
1pm)
Stage 1
Introduction
How will you
introduce the
experience/concept(s
) and engage the
interest of the
child/children?
Stage 2
Main Body
Describe the
experience; what will
children be doing?
How will concepts/
issues be explored?
List at least three
focus questions
relating your learning
objectives to be
asked of the children.
Stage 3:
Conclusion
How will you
conclude the
experience? Reflect
on learning with
children? How will
you encourage a
smooth transition to
the next experience
Evaluation and Self Reflection: Did your experience meet your learning objectives? Why/ why not? What aspects of the experience worked most
effectively? What aspects could be improved and how could they be improved? E.g. flow, resources, teaching strategies, environment, assessment of
learning etc
Follow-up: Are there any areas that you would like to follow up on? Emerging interests/concepts to explore further?
Supervising Teacher Comments: Pre-service Teacher final reflection: