If you work for a commercial or public preschool, your “schooling” hours are set for you. I often feel like this is barely enough time, and am actually considering lengthening the preschool day to three or three and a half hours. I teach for two and a half hours twice a week, for each class. The first step is to determine your hours for preschool. Even Teacher Tom has a designated time during the day where he gathers all his students at once to have a community building, and sometimes lengthy, circle time. Some prefer more traditional scheduling with designated activities based on a specific time frame during the day.Įither approach is fine, as long as it is meeting the needs of your students or children.Īnd let me be clear, even the most play-based cooperative schools, such as Teacher Tom’s preschool, has some scheduling. Some believe in allowing children to set their own schedules, taking their guidance and direction and allowing the day to form around their interests in that exact and single moment. Let me begin by stating that there are several different thoughts about preschool scheduling. How to Create a Preschool Schedule That Works It’s one of the greater advantages of owning my own preschool, but even if you work in a commercial or public preschool, it’s amazing what even the smallest changes in a schedule can do for learning.īut what should you change? Well, keep on reading. What works at the beginning of the school year may not work as well as the year progresses, so instead of getting frustrated or irritated that things are not working as well as they used to, I’ll tweak the schedule. Often times, my preschool schedule will change even as the year goes on. Just as your children change as they grow, just as your students change frequently, you might find that the perfect preschool schedule is also changing. The problem may lie in wanting a single schedule for all your classes, or for all age groups, or the same schedule from year to year or even from day to day. A Changing Scheduleīut let me be completely honest here. What if our daily schedule must change due to differing nap times or school pick up times? How do we make sure to include all the “important” stuff without excluding all the “fun” stuff? The questions go on and on, and can sometimes leave us even more confused or uncertain. We question if our children and students are getting enough of one thing or too much of something else. As parents and educators we question what to include and for how long and how frequently. And, what you find in this post may indeed be very surprising!Ĭreating a preschool schedule can be such a daunting task! There are so many important decisions to make. Well, no more! Today, due to reader demand, I am sharing the daily preschool schedule I refer to as I teach. In several posts, it is clear that I have one, however I have never spent the time to actually describe it. Recently I’ve had requests from several readers that I share my daily preschool schedule.
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