Embedding Schedule Resources

One of the paradoxes of Pre-K (i.e., the rub we feel between DAP and rigor) is how to be intentional while following children’s lead.

How do we create intentional learning opportunities while allowing children long periods of self-directed and sustained play?

 

One solution is to use embedding schedules.

Click here for video with an overview of embedding schedules as the solution for intentional teaching through play (13:04).

• Additional videos on embedding schedules
  • Focused Instructional Strategy Unpacked [video]
  • Introduction to activity schedules [video]
  • Evolution of activity schedules [video]
  • Next generation of activity schedules [video]
  • Overview of ELOs: Chapter 4 Blended Practices [video]

Directions for a Make’n Take Activity

1. Watch this video (19:12) on how to make embedding schedules
2. Decide if you want to make an embedding schedule to teach common outcomes, targeted or individualized outcomes
3. Decide and define your outcomes and put them across the top of your matrix
4. Identify your daily schedule, including routines within routines
5. At the intersect (where an outcome meets an activity) decide how you will teach/support learning
   • Suggestions on “how” to teach
     • Universal strategies [pdf1] [pdf2]
     • Focused strategies for teaching elements of self-regulation
       • Podcast on teaching self-regulation [link]
         • Transcript [pdf]
       • Self-regulation games [pdf]
       • Attention and focus strategies [pdf]
       • Recall progression [pdf]
       • HSKT [pdf]
     • Systematic strategies [pdf]

Resources Needed for the Activity

• Option 1: Teaching Common Outcomes
  • Sample Big Ideas for Early Learning Glossary™ [pdf]
• Option 2: Teaching Targeted Outcomes
  • Self-Regulation Rubric [pdf]
    • Directions for Using Self-Reg Rubric [pdf] dynamic version [google DRIVE]
• Option 3: Teaching Individualized Outcomes
  • IEP worthy outcomes [video]
  • Creating ARCs [Part 1 video] [Part 2 video]

Other Embedding Related Resources

• Blank templates for embedding schedules [DRIVE]
• Printable blank embedding schedule [pdf]
• Completed IIS for Kendall [pdf]
• Head Start Inclusion ELO resources (including PPT with photo of matrix with sticky notes) [link]