Chapter 5

Teaching with Intent to Promote Learning with Intent

In this chapter, you will learn:

three dimensions of teaching with intent including engaging activities, thoughtful questioning, and meaningful feedback
instructional practices that foster student ownership and learning with intent
a framework that integrates intentional teaching practices and opportunities for deep and self-directed learning as part of PDI

Key Ideas

Teaching with Intent

In the context of PDI, teaching with intent ideally means designing opportunities for children to build knowledge and transfer that knowledge into action through active participation and digital creation. Teachers plan for ways of working intentionally toward these goals. This chapter offers ideas for how to adapt digital texts and resources and build in supported opportunities for children to assert their autonomy and ownership of new ideas.

Learning with Intent

Our PDI framework integrates four core sets of PDI practices that are designed to foster students’ intentional learning through intentional teaching. Over time, students internalize what is modeled and are expected to begin learning with intent.

Study Guide Resources

Discuss, consider and implement ideas from Chapter 5 (view pdf)

Think About It: Teaching and Learning with Intent
Talk It Through: Expectations for Learning and Teaching
Try It Out: Digging Deeper

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