Type of assessment Administration of Assessment Legal Parent/Community Involvement Expectations/Outcomes Interactive Activity Evaluation
Agenda
Assessment Type
Document the childs social communication assessment to observe record progress.
Assessment include files documentation on passed evaluation, interviews and parents professionals testing.
Provide parents data feed back on what the child can do, and how the child learns.
Each child have their own capacity on how they learn and keep with they own learning .
keep list of all learning evaluation practice that are very beneficial to students and their learning process.
According to the NASYC & NAECS /SDE uses assessment methods of learning. Assessing early childhood development methods, and developing supportive learning and teaching methods to uses childrens potency progress, and needs, use assessment methods that is develop appropriate, culturally and linguistically responsive, in daily children activities, supported by families and associated to specific purposes. (1) making sound decisions regarding teaching and learning, (2) identify any concerns that may require focused intervention for individual child, (3) helping programs develop their educational and developmental intervention( NASYC & NAECS / SDE ).
A group of administrations and teacher, social workers, teacher assistance and other educators take educational goals, and check how children improve at home and school, to evaluate and take legal consideration grades.
Assessment should be done at the beginning of the year, at the end of the first and at the end of the school year. In other occasions assessment should be done more often, depending on a the child, All children should begin enrolled in an early childhood program a few weeks early prior an assessment being completed, it is best practice allow child to adapt to their teacher, classmates and classroom
Administration of Assessment
Chapter three are defined as professional ethics and confidentiality, but keep in mind that every child care facility will be different. The principles are relevant to unique circumstances if you're in a formal child setting, the staff will be familiar with aspects and ethical conduct for proper behavior, ( Warren).
Assessment should be a specific purpose and should be reliable, valid and reasonable for the right purpose, (The National Education Goals Panel).
Information should be confidentiality-Not sharing information of students or personnel.
Legal Consideration-negligence, abuse, etc.
Legal Considerations
Guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice in this article is give this statement terms study on childs development and learning knowledge basis in the educational value in early child education. There are five keys areas of practice: ( 1) creating a caring community of learners. (2) Teaching to enhance development and learning. (3) Planning curriculum to achieve important goals. (4) Assessing children development and learning. (5) Establishing reciprocal relationship with families, (NAEYC, ).
Parent teacher conference after they review the results of the assessment, and discuss about how children work at home, and teacher will be send a home work for Monday to Friday and review on Monday.
Explain parents information about children and why. Create a plan and example of the childs skills. Involve family, communities and assist children in they learning activities. Involvement
Discuss how often and in what ways the new teacher will communicate with you as a parent about your childs progress.
Assessment with diverse children by putting in place appropriate procedures to determine which language will be used during the assessment process and to ensure that the screening, and assessment instruments and procedures being used are appropriate for the child, interpreters must be available if needed and professional conducting the assessment should be skilled and knowledge about cultural and linguistic differences, ( Shaw, Goode, Ringwalt, Ayankoya ).
Appliance curriculum that is has been planned, interesting and engaged developmental appropriate practice, cultural and linguistically approachable, and comprehensive and guide positive outcomes for all young children. Once the evidence has been collected will be interpret the information and filled out the checklist will be confirmed by the local assessment policy. Expectations/ Outcomes
Assessment should be include many sources of work and evidence, and report to parents and teachers. Assessment should be included with parents as part of the children process and invited parents in their children education goals, ( teaching Strategies).
Assessment for young children should be choice early learning and development, including Physical and development motor skills, social and emotional development, methods of learning, language development and cognitive and all general skills. Methods of assessment should be familiar with children needs, their parents and community be involved in context in order to demonstrated their talents and knowledge to help children in continue in task in their writing abstract paper and pencil. When showing difficult for children demonstrated what they know ( The National Education Goals Panel).
Invited parents and families to be involved with their children activities, like reading in their children classroom, cooking , enjoyed meals with their children, etc students improvement and grow.
Interactive Activity
How has my child improve his writing skills? How has my child has been improving his literacy and language?
How has my child use his social and emotional development skills?
How children communicate in school, and with other peers. I really like the strategies that you use to teach my child.
Special help my child may need.
How teachers used testing progress in an important aspect for teachers work and society assumes it to be done well. Evaluation
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Shaw, Evelyn, Goode, Susan, Ringwalt, Sharon, & Ayankoya, Betsy. ( 2005) Early Identification of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children ( Age 0-5): Early Intervention Early childhood Special Education. Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8040.
NAEYC& NAECS/SDE (2003). Early Childhood Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Evaluation. National Association for the education of young children, and the national Association of early childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education. Copyright 2003.
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