Planning and Organising for Learning and Positive Behaviour

This chapter discusses how to plan effectively for children’s care and education between the ages of 0-8. The chapter benefits from a range of critically reviewed theories, statutory and non-statutory curricula guidance and practice-based evidence. The chapter also draws from debates and dilemmas when planning for the unique needs of children and promoting positive behaviour. The chapter contains case studies, suggestions for planning and projects, alongside opportunities to pause for thought, reflect and read wider. It is important to note that planning is a distinctive part of practice for each professional and workplace. Students and professionals, should remain responsive to the unique needs of cohorts of children, and equally as responsive to the context in which they are working. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to planning, there is no explicitly wrong or right way to plan, planning is simply that, a plan. Therefore, reading on, the chapter will elicit and provoke new thoughts and ideas for practice pertaining to planning but will not necessarily instruct on the preferential approach to planning – it is you that writes that part of your chapter.