The Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children’s Learning, Third Edition

Seminal Text Updated and Revised

Teachers of young children have turned to this book again and again for guidance on how to intentionally engage young children in meaningful learning across domains and content areas. Updated by subject matter experts and based on current thinking in each content area, this third edition provides invaluable advice to help teachers make thoughtful, intentional use of both child-guided and adult-guided learning experiences that build on children’s interests and focus on what they need to learn to be successful in school and in life.

Highlights of the new edition include

• Practical, equitable teaching strategies that support each child’s learning

• Ways to integrate the social, cultural, and linguistic contexts of children and families into classroom curriculum and learning experiences

• Considerations for children with disabilities or delays and for dual language learners

Plus, new features provide

• Learning objectives in each chapter

• Updated classroom-based examples, including illustrations of culturally responsive strategies

• Connections to developmentally appropriate practice

With this new edition, beginning and experienced teachers alike will find timeless and timely approaches to knowing when to step in and when to step back.

Amy Schmidtke, EdD, is director of program development at Buffett Early Childhood Institute, where she conceptualizes and leads systemic approaches to reducing achievement and opportunity gaps in early learning and education settings, birth through Grade 3. Schmidtke previously served at the Institute as bilingual educational facilitator for the Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan, program specialist with the program development and professional learning teams, and director of professional learning. She spent 18 years with Omaha Public Schools and is an adjunct instructor in early childhood education in the Teacher Education Department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Schmidtke has an Ed.D. in educational administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). She also earned a master’s degree in education at UNO with endorsements in early childhood education and English as a second language, and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Contributors: Marie Masterson, Michelle Mazzocco, Keri Giordano, Lori Meyer, Susan Bennett-Armistead, Holland Banse, Cindy Hoisington, Crystal Wise, Betül Demiray Sandıraz, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, Julia Luckenbill, Keely Benson, Jennifer Hofsommer, Melany Spiehs, Darcy Heath, Kimberlee Telford, Tonya Jolley