Reference no: EM133684357

Assignment: Lesson Plan

Competency Title/Statement: CPD- Plans and implements, in partnership with families, culturally, individually, and developmentally responsive curricular strategies and interaction that nurture infant/toddler development, learning, and mental health, and well-being.

Summative Competency Assessment

In this assessment, you will be developing and implementing a week-long learning experience plan for a group of infants or toddlers. Your planning will encompass five days and the implementation of literacy, math, and science experiences based on the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines. The purpose of this assessment is to determine your competency in the area of developing daily curriculum in partnership with families that incorporates relationships and play and is responsive to young children's emerging understanding of literacy, math, and science.

Part A: Observation

Your planning must be informed by knowledge of the young children within your environment or who you have selected for your learning experience plan. Young children should be between the ages of 6 weeks and 3 years.

First, identify the age group you are working with:

1) 6 weeks to 9 months
2) 7 months to 18 months
3) 16 months to 24 months
4) 21 months to 36 months

Observe the children you have selected. Use the Observation Form to summarize your observation (see below). Collect data for each of the developmental domains for which you are planning experiences. Based on the data collected and the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines for Children, Birth to Age 3, identify both developmental skills the child appears to be working on as well as factors in the environment that hold the child's interests. Be sure that developmental skills are identified across each developmental domain.

Observation Form

Number of Children:             Date:
Children's Age Range:          Time:

Observation data (1 or 2 children):

1) What developmental skill(s) appear relevant to the children's growth and development at this moment?
2) What holds the children's interests in the environment?

Part B: Family Interview:

This portion of your summative assessment requires that you interview family members to plan experiences that respect family culture, beliefs and values, and the individual needs, preferences and abilities of infants and toddlers. If you were a teacher in and infant and toddler environment, this is process you would undertake with family members throughout your environment. For this activity, however, you will interview one of the family members of a child with whom you will be planning experiences. The following are suggested questions that serve as a foundation. Feel free to add additional questions over the course of your interaction with the family member. Keep in mind, your overall goal is to gain relevant family information that will help in planning your learning experiences. Consider family culture, beliefs and values, and relevant information about children's preferences and temperaments.

Family Interview:

1) How does the child seem to prefer to interact with the world?

2) What skills or activities appear to lead to frustration or challenge?

3) Are there daily routines within the home that are soothing to the child?

4) Does the child have preferences in terms of interactions?

5) What would you want someone to most know about your child?

6) What would you want someone to most know about your family?

Part C: Learning Experience Plan Development

Your Learning Experience Plan should include the following components:

1) Observation data

2) Description of how the learning experience will nurture infant/ toddler development, learning, mental health, and well-being

3) Knowledge about this group of learners that justifies presenting this learning experience in the proposed manner

4) Identification of how the learning experiences nurture young children's developing self-regulation skills, are responsive to their unique approaches to learning, and are supportive of each young child's social and emotional development; physical development and health, language development; communication, and literacy; and cognitive development

Develop a learning experience plan based on the developmental, cultural, and linguistic needs of the children. Be sure that your learning experiences are based on the Illinois Early Learning Guidelines for Children, Birth to Age 3: