Childcare plan preparation support system

The childcare plan creation support system addresses inefficiencies in nursery school planning by automating the generation and organization of childcare plans, reducing redundancy and workload through an input-output system that aligns with predefined goals.

JP2025012232APending Publication Date: 2025-01-24小林修

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Application Number
JP2023114936
Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2023-07-13
Publication Date
2025-01-24

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Technical Problem

Existing childcare planning systems in nursery schools require significant effort due to repetitive content creation across different plans, such as annual, monthly, and weekly instruction plans, leading to inefficiencies and increased workload.

Method used

A childcare plan creation support system that includes an input reception function and an output unit to generate and organize childcare plans based on predefined goals, reducing redundancy by associating and selecting required entry information for each plan.

Benefits of technology

This system significantly reduces the burden of creating repetitive content by automating the generation of childcare plans, ensuring consistency and efficiency in plan creation while minimizing overlap, thereby enhancing visibility and ease of document preparation.

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Abstract

To provide a childcare schedule preparation support system capable of jointly preparing related parts of each schedule.SOLUTION: A memory unit 40 of a childcare schedule preparation support system 1 memorizes in advance a plurality of required input information items included in overall schedule information, annual schedule information, monthly schedule information, weekly schedule information, and daily schedule information and set based on an achievement goal predetermined based on childcare policies, and a main control unit 30 selects the required input information associated with any one of the overall schedule information, annual schedule information, monthly schedule information, weekly schedule information, and daily schedule information as input information by an input / output unit 10.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present invention relates to a childcare plan creation support system for creating a childcare plan regarding the developmental level of children in a nursery school. [Background technology]

[0002] For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a system intended to support operations at a nursery school.

[0003] Additionally, in childcare facilities, it is stipulated that documents regarding overall plans, annual teaching plans, monthly teaching plans, weekly teaching plans, and daily teaching plans must be prepared individually for each child who is the subject of childcare as stipulated in the Nursery School Childcare Guidelines (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare).

[0004] Then, according to each plan, the child's progress is monitored, and they are encouraged to develop further by checking what they have been able to do and what they still cannot do. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0005] [Patent Document 1] Patent Publication No. 2022-72432 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0006] The above-mentioned plans are highly related to each other, and there are many overlapping parts in the documents when they are prepared. Therefore, in the process of preparing each plan, it is time-consuming to repeatedly write the same or similar contents, and preparing the plans requires a lot of effort. For example, if the goal of the overall plan is set as "feeling at ease with the caregiver," the goals related to the content of "feeling at ease with the caregiver" such as "enjoying playing with the caregiver," "playing your favorite games with the caregiver," or "trusting yourself to the caregiver" are set and included in the annual teaching plan, monthly teaching plan, weekly teaching plan, and daily teaching plan other than the overall plan. Plans prepared in this way are to be prepared every year, month, week, and even day.

[0007] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a childcare plan creation support system for creating a childcare plan based on a nursery school's childcare policy. [Means for solving the problem]

[0008] The present invention provides a childcare plan creation support system that includes an input / output unit having an input reception function for receiving input information required for creating an overall plan, an annual teaching plan, a monthly teaching plan, a weekly teaching plan, and a daily teaching plan in a childcare guideline for a childcare center, and an output function for outputting predetermined output information related to the overall plan, the annual teaching plan, the monthly teaching plan, the weekly teaching plan, and the daily teaching plan, a memory unit in which predetermined information is stored, and a main control unit having control content for generating the output information based on the input information received by the input / output unit and the information stored in the memory unit and outputting the generated output information by the input / output unit, and is used to create a childcare plan consisting of the overall plan, the annual teaching plan, the monthly teaching plan, the weekly teaching plan, and the daily teaching plan, and the memory unit stores overall plan information corresponding to the overall plan, annual teaching plan information corresponding to the annual teaching plan, monthly teaching plan information corresponding to the monthly teaching plan, weekly teaching plan information corresponding to the weekly teaching plan, and daily teaching plan information corresponding to the daily teaching plan. and when outputting plan information other than the plan information, the main control unit has a control content that outputs the plurality of necessary information items associated with the plan information and allows the selection of any one of the plurality of necessary information items to be filled in and accepts the selected necessary information items as input information, and when outputting plan information other than the plan information, the main control unit has a control content that outputs the necessary information items associated with the plan information and allows the selection of any one of the necessary information items to be filled in and accepts the selected necessary information items as input information, and when outputting plan information other than the plan information, the main control unit has a control content that outputs the necessary information items associated with the plan information received as input information in the plan information as output information.

[0009] In this configuration, the information on items to be filled in for each plan is stored in advance in the storage unit, and when creating another plan based on the information on items to be filled in selected for any one plan, the previously associated information on items to be filled in is extracted and output, making it possible to dramatically reduce the burden of creating the other plan. As a result, when the contents of the plans are similar or overlapping, it is only necessary to write the information in one plan, and the content is reflected in the other plans, making it possible to reduce the effort required to create documents for each plan. Effect of the Invention

[0010] The childcare plan creation support system of the present invention has the excellent effect of supporting the creation of each plan. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0011] [Figure 1] 1 is a schematic explanatory diagram of a childcare plan creation support system according to an embodiment; [Diagram 2] 1 is an explanatory diagram showing the relationship between an overall plan, an annual teaching plan, a monthly teaching plan, a weekly teaching plan, and a daily teaching plan. [Diagram 3] FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an output form of overall plan information according to the embodiment. [Figure 4] FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an output form of annual teaching plan information according to the embodiment. [Diagram 5] FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an output form of monthly teaching plan information according to the embodiment. [Figure 6] FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an output form of weekly teaching plan information according to the embodiment. [Figure 7] FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing an output form of daily teaching plan information according to the embodiment. [Figure 8] FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of child evaluation information according to an embodiment. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0012] Hereinafter, a detailed description will be given of an embodiment of the childcare plan creation support system according to the present invention. Note that the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described below, and the design can be modified as appropriate.

[0013] As shown in Figure 1, the childcare plan creation support system 1 (hereinafter, also referred to as system 1 as appropriate) comprises an input / output unit 10 constituted, for example, by a mobile terminal, a main control unit 30 connected to the input / output unit 10 via a specified network line 20, and a memory unit 40 capable of exchanging data with the main control unit 30.

[0014] Predetermined input information can be input to the input / output unit 10, and output information based on the input information is output. Specifically, the input / output unit 10 corresponds to a mobile terminal, a PC, or the like used by a caregiver.

[0015] The main control unit 30 has a control function for generating predetermined output information based on input information inputted to the input / output unit 10 .

[0016] The storage unit 40 stores various information in advance, including information on required items to be entered, which will be described later.

[0017] Specifically, the main control unit 30 and the storage unit 40 are realized by a management server 50 connectable to the network line 20 .

[0018] Here, the nursery school childcare guidelines require the creation of an overall plan, annual teaching plan, monthly teaching plan, weekly teaching plan, and daily teaching plan for each child.

[0019] To go into more detail, for example, as shown in Figure 2, an overall plan may be established for a one-year-old child, such as "having the caregiver accept his or her feelings and feeling close to him or her and feeling secure," and this is recorded in a written document as the overall plan. Then, as an associated annual teaching plan, plans (goals) incorporating more specific content such as "enjoying contact with the caregiver," "playing as desired near the caregiver," "trying to communicate one's thoughts and needs," and "trying to express one's emotions in a rich way" are established and recorded in a written document as part of the annual teaching plan.

[0020] Furthermore, in contrast to the plan (goal) written in the annual teaching plan, such as "enjoying interactions with caregivers," the written monthly teaching plan contains more specific plans (goals), such as "feeling safe with caregivers" and "being able to live an emotionally stable life."

[0021] In addition to the plan (goal) of "feeling safe with caregivers" written in the monthly teaching plan, the written weekly and daily teaching plans contain plans (goals) that specify what was accomplished and what was not, such as "being able to surrender oneself when held by a staff member," "feeling safe when a staff member is nearby," "looking at a staff member to feel safe," "approaching a staff member on one's own to feel safe," "feeling safe and comfortable with the caregiver," "being able to spend time without crying except as a physiological indication," "being able to find something to play with without crying except as a physiological indication," "being able to do what one wants without crying except as a physiological indication," "being able to play even when a staff member is not around without crying," or "playing using one's whole body."

[0022] In this embodiment, each of these entry contents is pre-stored in the storage unit 40 as required entry information.

[0023] Then, in the main control unit 30, based on the input information input from the input / output unit 10, overall plan information, annual teaching plan information, monthly teaching plan information, weekly teaching plan information and daily teaching plan information required to create the above-mentioned overall plan, annual teaching plan, monthly teaching plan, weekly teaching plan and daily teaching plan are generated as output information.

[0024] The procedure for a caregiver to use the childcare plan creation support system 1 will be described below.

[0025] First, the caregiver displays an input page for creating an overall plan on the input / output unit 10. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 3, the input / output unit 10 displays overall plan information 60 for creating an overall plan. Here, the input page displays in advance the character string "Overall Plan", the character string "Childcare Plan", and the character strings "0-year-old", "1-year-old", "2-year-old", and "3-year-old". On the other hand, when the caregiver creates the overall plans for each of the "0-year-old", "1-year-old", "2-year-old", and "3-year-old", the caregiver directly inputs characters of the overall plan for each age in the right column of the character string indicating each age. Specifically, for example, the overall plan for a 1-year-old is set as a goal of "having the caregiver accept the feelings of the child and feeling familiarity and security", and this is input as age-specific childcare goal information 61. As a result, the age-specific childcare goal information 61 is accepted by the system 1.

[0026] Next, the caregiver causes the input page for creating an annual teaching plan to be displayed on the input / output unit 10. Specifically, as shown in Fig. 4, the input / output unit 10 displays annual teaching plan information 70 for creating an annual teaching plan. Here, as shown in Fig. 4, the input page is output with age-specific childcare goal information 61 already filled in the age-specific childcare goal column, which is "have the caregiver accept the child's feelings and develop a sense of familiarity and security" that was input in the overall plan information 60.

[0027] Furthermore, the objectives of Period I, the first of four periods into which the year is divided, are displayed in advance in the annual teaching plan information 70, and in the corresponding column, multiple selectable childcare goal information 71 for each period are displayed, namely, "enjoy playing with the caregiver," "play as you like with the caregiver nearby," "try to communicate your thoughts and needs," and "try to express yourself emotionally in a rich way."

[0028] Here, by selecting (checking) the “Enjoy interacting and playing with caregivers” column from the multiple childcare goal information by period 71 displayed, the input of the selected childcare goal information by period 71 is completed, and the childcare goal information by period 71 is accepted by system 1.

[0029] Next, when the periodic childcare goal information 71 is accepted by the system 1, multiple pieces of annual childcare goal information 72 are displayed based on the periodic childcare goal information 71. Specifically, the content that embodies "enjoying playing with a caregiver" as the periodic childcare goal information 71 is displayed as multiple pieces of annual childcare goal information 72 in the right column of each character string of "care and education" and "nutritional education". Specifically, in the column related to "preservation of life" corresponding to the information of "care and education", multiple pieces of information such as "playing freely with a reliable caregiver", "adjusting daily rhythm in a reliable environment", "deepening relationships and developing affection and trust", and "feeling the joy of spending time with familiar people in a reliable relationship" are displayed in advance as annual childcare goal information 72. That is, the corresponding annual childcare goal information 72 is associated in advance with each periodic childcare goal information 71, and multiple corresponding annual childcare goal information 72 are displayed as selectable candidates based on the input periodic childcare goal information 71.

[0030] In addition, with regard to the annual childcare goal information by item 72, in addition to information regarding "preserving life," information regarding "emotional stability," "health," "human relationships," "environment," "language," and "expression" is also pre-displayed.

[0031] Here, if necessary, in the annual childcare goal item information 72, for example, in the "preservation of life" column, a check can be placed to select the column corresponding to the information "playing freely with reliable caregivers." By placing a check, the annual childcare goal item information 72 is accepted by the system 1.

[0032] Then, as shown in Fig. 5, when the caregiver displays an input page for creating a monthly teaching plan on the input / output unit 10, monthly teaching plan information 80 is displayed as output information on the input / output unit 10. Specifically, in the column corresponding to "preservation of life" in the monthly teaching plan information 80, monthly childcare goal item information 81 such as "feeling at ease with the caregiver" and "being able to live an emotionally stable life" is displayed in advance. Here, such monthly childcare goal item information 81 is information of contents associated with the information "playing freely with a reliable caregiver" accepted as the annual childcare goal item information 72.

[0033] In addition to the information on "preserving life," monthly childcare goal information 81, which is made up of information on such things as "emotional stability," "health," "human relationships," "environment," "language," "expression," and "basics of the ability to manage one's food," will also be pre-displayed with information associated with the information that has already been checked (selected) in annual childcare goal information 72.

[0034] In addition, in the column corresponding to the "objectives of the period" in the monthly teaching plan, the period-specific childcare goal information 71 "Interact with caregivers and enjoy playing" received in the annual teaching plan information 70 is already displayed.

[0035] Then, when completing the creation of the monthly teaching plan, the caregiver checks, for example, the information "feeling at ease with the caregiver" in the "preservation of life" column of the monthly childcare goal information by item 81. Also, in the "emotional stability" column, checks the information "feeling at ease with the caregiver", in the "health" column, checks the information "being able to live an emotionally stable life", in the "human relationships" column, checks the information "sharing the space", in the "environment" column, checks the information "moving freely", in the "language" column, checks the information "enjoying picture books and stories", in the "expression" column, checks the information "sharing the space", and in the "basics of eating skills" column, checks the information "enjoying meals".

[0036] Next, when weekly teaching plan information 90 for creating a weekly teaching plan is displayed as output information on input / output unit 10, as shown in FIG. 6, in the column of weekly teaching plan information 90 corresponding to the information on "weekly objectives," information that has been accepted as monthly childcare goal item information 81 in monthly teaching plan information 80, such as "enjoying meals," "feeling at ease with caregivers," "living an emotionally stable life," "moving freely," "sharing the environment," or "enjoying picture books and stories," is pre-displayed.

[0037] When the information "Move freely" and "Enjoy picture books and stories" are selected (checked) as the weekly goal, weekly childcare goal information 91 associated with the information "Move freely" and "Enjoy picture books and stories" are displayed as selectable candidates in the "Date" column that is displayed in advance.

[0038] Specifically, in association with the monthly childcare goal item information 81 "moving freely", weekly childcare goal information 91 such as "sitting up", "sit on the floor", "roll over", "crawl", "stand up while holding on", "stand without support", "walk", "walk around freely", "run", "jump", "gallop", "skip", "play with arms and legs", and "play using whole body" are output for each "day" information. In addition, in association with the monthly childcare goal item information 81 "enjoying picture books and stories", weekly childcare goal information 91 such as "getting interested in picture books read aloud", "understanding picture books and the story told by the caregiver", "understanding picture books and the story told by the caregiver and enjoying the world of the story", and "imagining a story from a picture book or story and expressing it in words" are output for each "day" information.

[0039] Here, each time the child achieves each goal defined in the output weekly childcare goal information 91, the childcare worker can display an input page for creating a weekly teaching plan, directly select each weekly childcare goal information 91, and have the system 1 accept it. In another embodiment, for example, as shown in FIG. 7, an input page for creating a daily teaching plan may be displayed, and the daily teaching plan information 100 may be output to the input / output unit 10 as output information. Specifically, when the daily teaching plan information 100 is output to the input / output unit 10, each content of the weekly childcare goal information 91 and the symbols "◎", "◯", "△", and "×" corresponding to each content are displayed in advance. Then, according to each content, if it is judged that the child can do it well, "◎" is selected, if it is judged that the child can do it, "△" is selected, if it is judged that the child can do it sometimes, or "×" is selected, and the system 1 accepts it.

[0040] Meanwhile, the evaluation of the child in the weekly teaching plan or the daily teaching plan can be displayed separately using a graph. For example, among the weekly childcare goal information 91 in the weekly teaching plan, the weekly childcare goal information 91 selected as determined to be possible and the weekly childcare goal information 91 selected as determined to be impossible can be scored with different values, and the child's development can be graphed based on the score of each weekly childcare goal information 91. Also, for example, in the daily teaching plan information 100 in the daily teaching plan, each symbol of "◎", "◯", "△" and "×" can be scored with different values, and the child's development can be graphed based on the score of each weekly childcare goal information 91. In addition, the contents of the weekly childcare goal information 91 can be classified into any one of the elements, for example, "physical development", "mental development", "language", "numbers" and "nature", and the achievements of each element can be added and displayed in a graph.

[0041] Specifically, as shown in Fig. 8, the input / output unit 10 has a "physical development" element display section 111, a "mental development" element display section 112, a "language" element display section 113, a "number" element display section 114, and a "nature" element display section 115 formed as child evaluation information 110, and each display section 111-115 may display individual achievement calculation amount information (solid line portion in the graph) according to the respective developmental state and standard achievement amount information (dashed line portion in the graph) showing the average developmental state of the same age. Specifically, for the child "Okazaki Taro", the individual achievement calculation amount information is greater (larger) than the standard achievement amount information for "physical development", "mental development", and "language", whereas the standard achievement amount information is greater (smaller) than the individual achievement calculation amount information for "number" and "nature". From this, it can be determined that the child in question is more advanced in terms of "physical development," "mental development," and "language" than children of the same age, but is somewhat behind in terms of "numbers" and "nature."

[0042] In this way, related items are automatically selected and displayed in the overall plan information 60, annual teaching plan information 70, monthly teaching plan information 80, weekly teaching plan information 90, daily teaching plan information 100, and child evaluation information 110, so that the caregiver can greatly reduce the effort of creating documents. Also, the developmental state of each child can be confirmed at a glance, making it easier to plan future educational policies. The created plan information can then be stored in the storage unit 40 as appropriate, or printed on paper by an output means (not shown) such as a printer, and submitted to various places as necessary.

[0043] In addition, in the above-mentioned age-based childcare goal information 61, period-based childcare goal information 71, yearly childcare goal item-based information 72, monthly childcare goal item-based information 81, and weekly childcare goal information 91, a configuration is proposed in which information not selected from each of the plan information is excluded (hidden) from candidates displayed in other plan information. As a result, when creating other plan information, information that is not associated is not displayed, eliminating the problem of unnecessary information being seen by the childcare worker and causing confusion. In addition, each plan information is also displayed and organized with only necessary items, which has the effect of improving visibility. In addition, in the past, the work procedure was to first determine the contents of the daily teaching plan based on the childcare situation at the site, and then to create higher-level teaching plans in order by conceptualizing them in order, but in the present invention, the work procedure is to create lower-level teaching plans in order from the higher-level teaching plan, which has the effect of preventing the contents of each teaching plan from deviating from the contents of the overall plan that is the basis.

[0044] The above-mentioned overall plan information 60, annual teaching plan information 70, monthly teaching plan information 80, weekly teaching plan information 90, daily teaching plan information 100, and child evaluation information 110 may be read-only so that guardians can view only information related to their own children. In other words, the guardian output unit 120 shown in FIG. 1 allows guardians to view the developmental state of their own children in real time.

[0045] Here, the necessary entry information according to the present invention is made up of the age-specific childcare goal information 61, the period-specific childcare goal information 71, the yearly childcare goal item-specific information 72, the monthly childcare goal item-specific information 81, and the weekly childcare goal information 91. The input information according to the present invention is made up of the character information entered in each item and the information of the item selected (checked) from among the multiple items. [Explanation of symbols]

[0046] 1. Childcare planning support system 10 Input / output section 20 Network lines 30 Main control unit 40 Storage section 60 General Planning Information 61 Age-specific childcare goal information (required information) 70 Yearly Teaching Plan Information 71 Childcare goal information by period (required information) 72 Annual childcare goal information by item (required information) 80 Monthly lesson plan information 81 Monthly childcare goal information by item (required information) 90 Week Lesson Plan Information 91 Weekly childcare goal information (required information) 100-day lesson plan information 110 Child Evaluation Information

Claims

[Claim 1] an input / output unit having an input reception function for receiving input information required for creating an overall plan, an annual teaching plan, a monthly teaching plan, a weekly teaching plan, and a daily teaching plan in the childcare guidelines for childcare centers, and an output function for outputting predetermined output information related to the overall plan, the annual teaching plan, the monthly teaching plan, the weekly teaching plan, and the daily teaching plan; A storage unit in which predetermined information is stored; a main control unit having a control content for generating the output information based on the input information received by the input / output unit and the information stored in the storage unit, and outputting the generated output information from the input / output unit; Equipped with A childcare plan creation support system used to create a childcare plan consisting of the overall plan, the annual teaching plan, the monthly teaching plan, the weekly teaching plan, and the daily teaching plan, The storage unit includes: Overall plan information corresponding to the overall plan, annual teaching plan information corresponding to the annual teaching plan, monthly teaching plan information corresponding to the monthly teaching plan, weekly teaching plan information corresponding to the weekly teaching plan, and daily teaching plan information corresponding to the daily teaching plan are stored as plan information, and each piece of plan information is individually associated in advance with a plurality of pieces of required entry information determined based on achievement goals determined in advance in accordance with the nursery school childcare guidelines, and further, the required entry information in any one piece of plan information is also associated in advance with the required entry information in other pieces of plan information other than the said plan information, The childcare plan creation support system is characterized in that the main control unit has a control content that, when first outputting any one piece of plan information, outputs multiple pieces of required information associated with the plan information, and allows the selection of any one piece of required information from the multiple outputted required information, and accepts the selected required information as input information, and when outputting plan information other than the plan information, outputs as output information the required information of other plan information other than the plan information associated with the required information received as input information in the plan information.

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