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Characteristics of Intentional Teachers
December 28, 2017
The most responsible way to live is that you're playful with life.
-Sadhguru, yogi, mystic and author
-Sadhguru, yogi, mystic and author
The authors of The Thinking Teacher provide the following list of characteristics of intentional teaching to help experienced teachers identify it in their work, and to support college students or new teachers to ensure its use:
"You are knowledgeable. You understand child development, and you know the early learning standards, individual content areas, and proven methods of instruction.
You have a relationship with each student.
You adapt to new challenges. You adjust your instruction to the different learning needs of students…
You plan from your goals. You write goals based on your knowledge of the students’ needs…
You assess students and incorporate the assessment results in your planning.
You reflect on your teaching. You regularly reflect on your assessment to determine if you have met your goals.
You do not give up. You use problem solving to address new challenges…
You see yourself as a lifelong learner."
A Framework for Intentional Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom |
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Displaying 1 CommentCSBC
Denver, CO, United States
This piece produces two immediate responses from me. The first is that I believe one critical characteristic of an intentional teacher is the expectation that they will get support and encouragement from their supervisors. No-one can function
alone, and I think we do a huge disservice to teachers when we do not expect their superiors to provide sensitive, enlightened, and supportive leadership. The second point has to do with assessment. Far too many teachers of young children - many very experienced - seem to want to assess them and then label them with some kind of disability. Not only is this not a teacher's job, it can be unethical. I much prefer the word observation to assessment.
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