Educators respond to children’s ideas and play and use intentional teaching to scaffold and extend each child’s learning.

Quality Area 1

1.2.2 Educators respond to children’s ideas and play and use intentional teaching to scaffold and extend each child’s learning. 

Suggestion: Make a poster with the definition of intentional teaching on it and some examples of how to extend activities further within each age group.  This can be placed near your programming area so that both Educators and Parent can see it and understand it a little better.

Help the children feel as though they belong – do they have a pet? Would they would like to bring a photo in and display in a frame?  Use this pic to start a story: one day I went walking……..