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  • “You are knowledgeable.
  • You have a relationship with each student.
  • You adapt to new challenges.
  • You plan from your goals.
  • You assess students and incorporate the assessment results in your planning.
  • You reflect on your teaching.
  • You do not give up.
  • You see yourself as a lifelong learner.”

Why should you be an intentional teacher?

an Intentional Teacher acts with knowledge and purpose to ensure that young children acquire the knowledge and skills (content) they need to succeed in school and in life. Intentional teaching means teachers act with specific outcomes or goals in mind for all domains of children’s development and learning.

What is an example of intentional teaching?

For example, teachers: encouraging curiosity, investigating and problem-solving in everyday situations. challenging children to make links between ideas and experiences. identifying and imagining ways to use voice, language, gestures, costumes and/or props related to roles in dramatic play.

Why intentional teaching is important?

Intentional teaching sessions allow our educators to be deliberate, purposeful and thoughtful when considering possible learning outcomes and making planning decisions for the children in our care. Each experience is an extension of learning that reflects the observed thinking and learning of the children.

What does it mean to be an intentional teacher?

It requires an awareness of and being deliberate, thoughtful, considered and purposeful in your teaching behaviours. It means actively planning and acting with specific goals or outcomes for children’ learning in mind so that you can select the most appropriate ways to interact and extend children’s thinking and development.

How are intentional teaching techniques contribute to children’s learning?

Intentional teaching techniques such as scaffolding and extending children’s learning are found to contribute to greater learning and positive outcomes for children.

Who is the author of the intentional teaching style?

Although education professor Robert J. Menges first published a book on the intentional teaching style back in 1976, it was not until recent years that the concept took off when other authors began writing about this theory. Educators teach, guide and equip students from preschool all the way through college.

When to use play based learning in intentional teaching?

When quality play-based learning is considered to involve social relationships, interactions, and modelling, intentional teaching can be balanced with child-centred and play-based environments in which children are perceived as intentional learners.