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How-To Guide for Teachers
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Teaching with an Intentional
Teaching Experience/Opportunity
Each Intentional Teaching experience/opportunity includes step-
by-step “What You Do” instructions and an embedded, color-coded
teaching sequence that oers guidance on how to adapt the
experience/opportunity for each individual child.
Children’s names appear within the teaching sequence based on
the most recent preliminary ratings or checkpoint ratings that
you have entered. The guidance that appears alongside children’s
names can be used to promote each child’s development and
learning for the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the experiences/
opportunities primary objective/dimension.
If children join mid-experience/opportunity, include them by simply
choosing their names in the Teaching Sequence and selecting SAVE.
Intentional Teaching Experience/Opportunity Navigation
Within an Intentional Teaching experience/opportunity, the left-
hand navigation bar provides helpful resources to assist your
teaching practice.
• Objectives/Dimensions lists the
primary objective/dimension and
any related objectives/dimensions
for the experience/opportunity.
• Materials oers a list of the
materials needed for the
experience/opportunity.
• Including All Children oers
guidance on including children with
special needs or children who are
English- or dual-language learners.
• Questions To Guide Your
Observations helps you focus
your observation planning; these
questions also appear in the
“Assess” feature.
• Make A Family Connection
oers the option to print or share
LearningGames
®
with family
members.
• Additional Ideas And Background
Information provides further
guidance to support your teaching.
• Print oers the option to print the
Intentional Teaching experience/
opportunity with the children’s
names embedded in the Teaching
Sequence.
• View in Spanish reveals the Spanish
version of the Intentional Teaching
experience/opportunity.