This article includes information about planning templates in Canada. For planning templates in New Zealand or Australia, click the country. Find information for general templates.

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A planning template is a plan that is pre-populated with regularly used content, from which you can start a new plan. Planning templates are found in your planning templates library and are designed to save you time - so don't have to start from a blank slate every time you want to create a plan.

The My region tab is home to templates specific to early childhood requirements in your area. You can also access all other templates (i.e. not specific to your region) by clicking the All regions tab.

Designed to help educators getting to know about a child and their family. Educators can work with the information shared by family, which can be added to over time as the child develops and grows.

Incorporate curriculum areas to support your center’s planning. Link documentation, photos, resources and comments to your weekly plans.

Share all your center's events with families, keeping them up to date each month. This plan can also be used as an educator-only events calendar to inform and remind your educators of important events, meetings and time-bound actions.

Create your agenda and record your center, room, group, or meeting minutes. This plan supports the recording of items covered, attendee, actions required and progress of actions.

Providing a weekly timetable schedule that you can fill in to ensure your center or room program incorporates all required routines throughout the week.

A plan and record for individual children. Through this plan, parents can share their knowledge of and aspirations for their child. While also incorporating your centre’s records of the child’s emerging interests and learning, and educators’ plans to support and extend on this.

This CLP plan enables you to record your professional goals, activity and timelines. Thus supporting of evidence of growth and development.

This plan builds on the PLP encouraging you to record and reflect on your learning.

Connecting, recording and reflecting on your goals, development and the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice

Connecting and incorporating the foundations and goals of How Does Learning Happen? and your program planning to support environments and experiences that are meaningful for children.

This plan provides a structure to support the documentation and planning for an individual child's Living Inquiries and Pathways from BC ELF.

📝 Other articles you may be interested in:
​Educators: An introduction to the planning area
​Educators: Working with planning templates
​Educators: Create a plan
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