Intentional Teaching The right way to teach. An Ideal? At your table, use the chart paper and markers to draw your interpretation of a good teacher….

Intentional Teaching

The right way to teach

An Ideal?

• At your table, use the chart paper and markers to draw your interpretation of a good teacher….

• We will add more tools that will make our teacher ‘ideal’ as we go through the next hour and a half

• Discuss

What is Intentional Teaching?• Now, at your tables list:–What you think it means to be intentional–The qualities you believe we need to be

intentional as teachers

• Discuss

Intentional Teachers and Children…

• What do we have to know about children?–Areas of development• Physical• Cognitive• Language• Social and emotional

More on children…

• What do you have to know about what children need to learn?–Content•Math• Science• Language and Literacy•Art•Drama•Technology• Small and large motor skills

More about children…

• Individual needs

• Learning styles

• Children’s dispositions

• Individual interests

Helping children learn…• Scaffolding learning through • Adult guided and Child directed experiences–Planning learning –At Small Group–Large Group–During Choice Time

• Having discussions• Setting up the environment for learning

Bag Check• At your tables, get out the materials that are

hidden in the bag• How could you use these to plan–An adult guided experience?–A child directed experience?

• Also think about–When and where would you use them?–How would you introduce them to the

children?

Intentional Teachers and the Environment

Belonging

Routines

Welcoming

Organized

Exciting places and quiet spaces

Intentional Teachers and Where We Work• What do intentional teachers have to know

about where they work?– The curriculum– The assessment system – Individual child

profiles–Policies and procedures–Colleagues’ skills and abilities– Supervisors’ expectations–And the daily routine…

A day in the life…• To be intentional is to…• Plan – –Using what we know about children–About how they learn–About what they need to learn–About what they like to do–About their individual needs–About how best to use the environment

to enhance their learning

A day in the life…• To be intentional is to…• Do – –Carry out your plans in appropriate

ways to encourage and enhance learning–Using the environment–Using the materials–Observing the children–Interacting with the children

A day in the life…• Review – –Reflect on how the day went–Whether you met your goals for children–What the children learned–What learning experiences went well– What excited and interested them–What to do next

Video: A day in the life…

• Watch the video and write down how–Teachers are being intentional during each

part of the day–How teachers are enhancing children’s

learning

Discuss