Learning Experience Plan Template
Instructions:
Use this template when
writing your Learning Experience Plan for Assessment Item 3. Please use the
bold, numbered headings below as the headings in your Plan. You can write each
section as short paragraphs or using dot points. Don’t forget to remove these
instructions, and the instructions in each section, before including this template
in your assessment.
1.
Date of planned
experience
In this section, make up
a date that you will implement the plan (you do not need to implement the plan,
but it is good practice to learn how to include a date that the plan relates
to).
2.
Learning Focus
In this section, clearly state what mathematical, science, and/or
technology concept/s
you want the children to learn as they engage in your planned experience. This
learning focus must link logically to Part 2 of your assessment (your
summary of the children’s interests, the Bishop’s mathematical activities, the
5Es and the mathematical/science concepts evident int their play).
Hint: Be realistic
about how much you can teach (and how much the children can learn) in one
planned experience. It is fine to focus on mathematics OR science OR
technology.
3.
Early Years
Learning Framework (EYLF) (Version 2) Learning Outcome/s
In this section, clearly state what EYLF (Version
2) Learning Outcome is relevant to your learning focus (so it must link to
the mathematical, science and/or
technology concepts you chose to focus on). You should also explain why that EYLF Learning Outcome
is relevant.
You may choose more than one Learning Outcome.
However, it must be relevant to your learning focus. You must also assess the
children’s learning in relation to all of your chosen Learning Outcome/s so be
careful not to choose to many (see the Plan for Review section below).
4.
Set up and
resources
In this section, write how
you will set up the planned experience and what resources you need. Include
information such as where you will locate the experience (eg: indoors,
outdoors, in a quiet corner, on a table etc..), and details of how you would
like the resources displayed (if appropriate). Think carefully about the type
of information that other staff might need to know if they had to set up the
experience without your help (this often happens when you are teaching in a
busy early childhood service and it is important that you learn how to tell
other staff how you want resources set up for children, and what you want the
children to learn).
5.
Details of the planned experience – what is your
planned experience and what will you do?
In this section, describe your planned experience.
What is it, and what will you do? You may find it helpful to write this
section as a procedural text (sort of like a recipe). Some important points to include are:
·
A description of your planned experience.
·
Information about how you will engage the children in the
experience.
·
The teaching strategies you will use to support the
children’s learning in relation to your chosen learning focus, including the
questions you are going to ask. Links to several good books have been provided
on Interact 2 in the Assessment 3 section to help you to choose teaching
strategies.
·
Information about how you will finish the planned experience
and help the children to reflect on their learning (helping children to reflect
on their learning is a requirement in the EYLF V2 – see page 25 in the EYLF in
the section ‘Assessment as learning’).
6.
Plan for review
(indicators of learning)
In this section, write what
evidence you will look for that will help you to know that the children have developed
understandings in relation to the mathematical, science and/or technology concept/s
that you set out to teach.
Some important points to include are:
·
Information about what the children
might say or do that tells you they have developed understandings about the mathematical,
science and/or technology concept/s you set out to teach.
·
Information about what the children
might say or do that tells you they have developed understandings related to
the EYLF Learning Outcome/s you chose.
