👀 Start With Observation
Identify children's interests, strengths, questions, skills, relationships, and emerging needs.
HEAD START • ELOF • INTENTIONAL TEACHING
📝 Teacher Planning
Support intentional planning by connecting children's interests, observations, developmental goals, learning experiences, materials, and family connections.
PLANNING CYCLE
Plan From What You Know About Children
Use a simple cycle of noticing, reflecting, planning, implementing, and revisiting to make classroom experiences responsive and intentional.
🎯 Choose a Focus
Connect the observation to developmental goals, learning objectives, or school readiness priorities.
🧩 Plan the Experience
Select materials, environment, interactions, questions, and experiences that can extend learning.
🔄 Revisit
Observe children's responses and use the evidence to adjust future experiences and next steps.