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Intentional Teaching Reflection
Use this document to reflect on your intentional teaching plan. This is your opportunity to make sure you have each of
these ECE professional interactions covered in your plan.
You can link this document to your plan or copy and paste the information directly to the reflection box.
Instructional
Strategies
Example 1
Intentional
Teaching
The teacher asks open-ended questions to help their brains navigate through the
lesson. Like “what could be water”. The teacher helped move through the lesson but
still let the children lead by choosing their animals and how they want to create their
ocean.
Child Choice
The teacher had a variety of items that belong in the ocean and don’t belong. This
allowed them to choose items to resemble the ocean and how they wanted their tray
to be displayed. The children were able to identify the animals that live in water and
they had the chance to put them in on the try with their ocean created by sand.
Expanding
Language
through
questions and
comments
The teacher asked questions to help expand their knowledge like “are there any ants
in the ocean for the anteater to eat?” The children quickly responded with no. This
helped expand their knowledge on habitats and adaptations. This can help them
recognize if they can’t eat in a certain habitat they probably can’t survive there. The
teacher spoke about the items sticking together and prompted starting the word and
letting him finish.
Positive
Relationship
You can see that the teacher and the 2 students have a positive relationship because
they are conversing together. They have a relaxed conversation and it flowed
smoothly. They were receptive to the questions and how the activity played out. I love
how the teacher was complimenting the children on their choices and how they
Instructional
Strategies
Example 1
created their sand tray. It was a great lesson and you can tell the kids really enjoyed
themselves through the play based learning activity.
Definitions and examples of each listed below:
Intentional teaching
:
Play] gives [children] opportunities to develop physical competence and enjoyment of the outdoors,
understand and make sense of their world, interact with others, express and control emotions, develop their symbolic and
problem-solving abilities, and practice emerging skills. (NAEYC 2009, 14)
In
The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children's Learning
(Epstein 2014), the author
describes adult-guided experiences as those in which teachers introduce information and model skills. These experiences
proceed "primarily along the lines of the teacher's goals, but [are] also shaped by the children's active engagement" (3).
As the figure illustrates, discovery and free play could be seen as child-guided experiences; scaffolding and guided play
are adult-guided experiences. Significantly, according to Epstein, the definition of child-guided experience includes
"strategic teacher support" (3)
Child choice:
When children choose how to play for themselves, they experience freedom in making those choices. They
also begin to see connections between choice and the consequences or results of that choice. The type of toys or
materials parents offer can help their children make more meaningful decisions. Open-ended materials can be used in
many ways so children can decide for themselves how to use them. For example, a child can imagine a block to be a fire
truck or any number of things. A toy fire truck, on the other hand, is usually used as a fire truck. Foam pieces, little
wooden sticks, ribbon scraps, and other reusable resources are all open-ended materials that inspire creative thinking and
delight when children use them to make something no one has ever made before.
Expanding
Language through the use of intentional questions and comments
: It is important to use both commenting and
questioning strategies when engaging with young children. When you do use questions be sure to use questions that
encourage children to expand their thinking and perspective on a subject. Here is a wonderful strategy to use when
interacting with children use 5 comments to every 1 question. Check out this
video
Positive Relationship:
Be authentic and genuine through actions like smiling, making eye contact, and having social
conversations with students. Allow time for children to talk to you and vice versa.
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