Transcript Intentional Teaching PowerPoint

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