Title: Create a schedule of activities, routines, and transitions appropriate for the child’s abilities.
Course: Early Childhood, Education, and Services I (19153-I) > Section: Exploring Curricula Responsive to Children’s Needs

Creation should include

- establishing activities, routines, and transitions
- explaining the importance of a daily schedule and routine
- ensuring that a visual schedule is posted for children’s understanding of the day’s routine, including adapting the schedule to be accessible to children with exceptional needs
- ensuring developmentally appropriate schedules to reflect the program’s objectives, length, and size; the facility; and the children’s ages and interests
- explaining the importance of transition techniques to move smoothly from one activity to another (e.g., gross-motor stretching activity, finger plays, music, visual and auditory cues)
- creating a resource file containing many different activities, routines, and transitions.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the benefits of using routines and transitions for young children?
- How can schedules be adapted to cope with unexpected situations?
- What factors should be considered when developing a schedule or routine of activities?
- What are some examples of effective transition-time activities?

Communication

- How can children be prompted to move from one activity or routine to another?

Leadership

- How might routines and transitions reinforce the problem-solving/decision-making skills of children?

Management

- What operational factors may limit the schedule?
- How can technology be used to assist in scheduling?