Intentional Teaching Terms

To act purposefully, with a goal in mind and a plan for accomplishing it

The knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors and skills teachers emply in their work with learners

The knowledge and skills teachers are expected to teach, children are expected to learn, and plans for the experiences through which the learning will take place

The ways teachers promote children's development and learning

The process of determining how children are progressing toward expected outcomes of learning and development

The subject matter that teachers teach, and the object of children's learning - the knowledge and skills in an area of learning

The language used in a content area

The "big ideas" - important ideas or principles within a content area

The specific abilities needed within a domain of learning and development

proceeds along the lines of children's interest and actions, with strategic teacher support

proceeds along the line of the teacher's goals, buit is also shaped by the children's active engagement