6N1944: Design A Document That You Could Hand Out To Parents Of The ECCE Room: Childhood Curriculum Module Assignment, TUD, Ireland

Section 1 –

Design a document that you could hand out to parents of the ECCE Room at the beginning of the year that explains the following information:

1. Describe Siolta.

2. Describe the principles behind Aistear.

3. Outline your plans to facilitate and extend the child’s learning based on the Early Childhood Curriculum. Giving examples of activities that would extend learning.

Section 2 – 

Learners are required to plan four appropriate learning activities that they can incorporate into an ECCE setting.  The following areas of Aistear must be covered – one in each skills demonstration.

Well-being, Identity and Belonging, Communicating, Exploring, and Thinking.

In addition, learners are required to role-play the four skills demonstrations, learners must give evidence of the following in their written work:

1. Effective planning of each learning activity

2. How to collaborate with team members in the ECCE setting

3. Details of the implementation of appropriate learning activities suited to the age range and development of the child and inclusive of all children.

4.Critical reflection on each learning activity and your role in supporting learning.

5. A comprehensive evaluation of each activity with evidence supporting the themes of Aistear and Siolta.

6. Relate theory to practice using relevant learning theorists to support your work (a minimum of two theorists linked in each activity).

These activities can be done with a sibling/child in the home environment (social bubble). If there are no children within your home setting you will need to role play with the activities and carry them out with members of your social bubble. Photographic evidence must be provided to support the activities to show that they were conducted.

Section 3 –

(Short- & medium-term planning) Inclusion of a weekly schedule & daily schedule outlining the tasks.

Design a weekly curriculum plan template in conjunction with four activities for the four themes of Aistear The plan must clearly show the activities you completed with the children highlighted on the days and dates they took place.

Create a daily a weekly curriculum schedule:

A daily schedule (short-term plan) is part of the weekly schedule it outlines the activities prepared for a day in the ECCE setting. It should match the same date and day on the weekly schedule.

The weekly schedule (Medium-term plan) must clearly show your activities incorporated into the weekly activities in the regular curriculum.

Section 4 –

Create a 4-week curriculum plan and evaluate it.

Your four-week plan should run consecutively i.e., October (Week 1, Week 2, etc.) from 14^th September through to 17^th October. The plan should be completed for each day of the week and your activities should be on this plan for the week you completed them. The weekly plan already completed in section 3 can be counted in this plan.

when you have completed your four-week curriculum plan, critically evaluate how well you have met Aistear and Siolta themes and the difficulties you faced and how you could improve your understanding of Aistear and Siolta meeting the themes within the curriculum and in your own learning goals. Outline how others in the team can improve their skills with regard to the implementation of Aistear and Siolta.

 Reflect on the process of using long-, medium- and short-term planning when implementing an early year’s curriculum based on your own values and beliefs about curriculum planning, how adults supporting learning, and theories on how children learn.