Milestones 37
Summary
TLDRThis script delves into the integral role of assessment in early childhood education. It emphasizes that teachers continually evaluate children's knowledge, interests, and interactions, using this insight to inform their teaching strategies. The importance of both formal and informal assessment strategies is highlighted, with a focus on creating a supportive community for educators to discuss authentic assessment practices. The goal is to provide a comprehensive understanding of each child's development to make informed decisions about their educational needs.
Takeaways
- 📝 Teachers constantly make assessments in the classroom by observing children's knowledge, interests, and interactions with peers, using this information to plan their teaching strategies.
- 🔍 The assessment process involves the use of specific tests and skill profiles, which may require specialized training to implement effectively.
- ⏰ Teachers can utilize downtime, such as nap time, to document their observations and assessments, which helps in maintaining a record of each child's progress.
- 👶 Developmental assessments are crucial for understanding the child's cognitive growth and emotional and social development, which are essential for designing instructional programs.
- 📈 Assessments can be both targeted to identify specific skills or developmental milestones and ongoing to provide a comprehensive picture of a child's growth over time.
- 🌟 It's important for teachers to be part of a supportive community where they can discuss and refine their assessment practices with colleagues.
- 📚 Informal assessment strategies are integrated into daily teaching and include brief jottings, running records, and anecdotal records.
- 📊 Formal assessments are more specialized and used periodically, such as child development screenings, to ensure typical development progress.
- 🔑 The key to effective assessment is making it a regular part of the curriculum and viewing it as integral to the success of teaching and learning.
- 💡 Assessments help in identifying the best environment and challenges to support a child's growth and development, which is a collaborative effort between teachers and the community.
- 🤔 Teachers should consider how to make assessment a manageable part of their daily routine, such as setting aside specific times or using available moments like rest periods for documentation.
Q & A
What is the primary role of teachers in the assessment process?
-Teachers make assessments by observing children in the classroom, judging their knowledge, interests, and interactions, and planning educational programs based on these observations.
How do teachers use their knowledge in the assessment process?
-Teachers use their understanding of child development, pedagogy, and classroom environment to inform their assessments and interactions with children.
What are some specific tools or tests that might be used in assessments?
-Teachers may use particular skill profiles or tests that require specific training to implement effectively.
How can teachers find time to document their assessments during a busy day?
-Teachers can utilize rest or nap times, set aside 10 minutes daily, or come in early to jot down notes and documentation.
Why is it important to collect snapshots of a child's development over time?
-Collecting snapshots over time provides a cohesive and complete picture of a child's development, allowing for informed decisions and evaluations of educational strategies.
How does understanding a child's individual needs impact the assessment process?
-Understanding individual needs helps in tailoring the educational environment and challenges to support the child's growth and development effectively.
What is the significance of assessing a child's attitudes and preferences in addition to cognitive growth?
-Assessing attitudes, dispositions, and preferences is crucial for designing instructional programs that cater to the holistic development of young children.
What is the role of a supportive community in the context of teacher assessments?
-A supportive community allows teachers to discuss and refine their assessment strategies, which is essential for improving educational practices.
What is the difference between formal and informal assessment strategies?
-Formal assessments involve specialized instruments used periodically, while informal assessments are daily practices interwoven within effective teaching.
How often should formal assessments be conducted for different age groups according to the script?
-Formal child development screenings and assessments should be done four times a year for infants and toddlers, and twice a year for preschoolers.
Why is it essential for assessment to be integrated across the curriculum?
-Integrating assessment across the curriculum ensures it is a regular part of teaching, contributing to the success and adaptability of the educational program.
Outlines
📝 The Integral Role of Assessment in Classroom Teaching
This paragraph discusses the continuous assessment process that teachers engage in while interacting with students. It highlights how teachers use their knowledge of child development and pedagogy to make judgments about children's skills, interests, and social interactions. The paragraph also touches on the use of specific tests and skill profiles in more rigorous assessments. It suggests that teachers should allocate time during the day, such as during rest periods, to document their observations and assessments. The importance of understanding individual children's development over time and the impact of the environment on their behavior is emphasized, along with the need for teachers to be part of a supportive community where they can discuss authentic assessment practices.
📚 Balancing Formal and Informal Assessment Strategies
The second paragraph delves into the distinction between formal and informal assessment strategies. It describes informal assessment as an integral part of daily teaching, which may include brief note-taking, compiling records, and anecdotal records. The paragraph stresses the importance of integrating assessment into the regular curriculum to ensure its effectiveness. In contrast, formal assessments are characterized as specialized instruments used periodically, such as child development screenings. The frequency of these assessments can vary depending on the age group of the children. The paragraph concludes by emphasizing the need for assessment to be interwoven across the curriculum to support the developmental progress of children.
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Keywords
💡Assessment
💡Child Development
💡Pedagogy
💡Classroom Environment
💡Anecdotal Records
💡Skill Profiles
💡Instructional Program
💡Vulnerabilities
💡Supportive Community
💡Formal Assessment
💡Curriculum
Highlights
Teachers make ongoing assessments in the classroom based on observations of children's knowledge, interests, and interactions.
Assessment involves planning programs and interactions with children using knowledge of child development and pedagogy.
Specific tests and skill profiles may require rigorous training for effective implementation.
Teachers can utilize rest or nap times for documentation and assessment activities.
Recommendation to set aside 10 minutes daily for assessment, focusing on one child at a time.
The importance of documenting and assessing children's development over time for a cohesive picture.
Assessment data can be influenced by children's vulnerability to environmental factors.
The necessity of getting to know individual children for effective assessment and decision-making.
Assessing children's attitudes, dispositions, and preferences is crucial for instructional program design.
Targeted assessments may be conducted to determine readiness for kindergarten or emotional and social development.
The significance of a supportive community for teachers to discuss and refine assessment practices.
Informal assessment strategies are integral to daily teaching and involve regular jottings and records.
Formal assessments use specialized instruments and are conducted periodically for developmental screening.
The role of assessment in supporting the curriculum and its importance in educational success.
Assessment should be interwoven across the curriculum for a comprehensive understanding of child development.
The challenges of implementing assessment practices as a lone teacher and the need for administrative support.
The importance of connecting with others for discussions on authentic assessment to improve teaching practices.
Transcripts
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frankly teachers make assessments every
every time they're in a classroom and
interacting with a child they are making
judgments about what that child knows
what that child enjoys how that child
interacts with other children and are
planning the program and how they'll
interact with that child whether
individually or in a group based on what
it is they see so
teachers use their knowledge about child
development
about quality pedagogy about classroom
environment to
help them in their assessment process
to the extent that there is a specific
assessment that's ongoing there are
particular tests that may be used with
children there are particular
skill profiles that may be used with
children
those may have some very rigorous other
expectations for you to be trained in
order to how best to implement that
particular
profile that you're trying to use or
that particular assessment device that
you're trying to use
if they could take a time during the day
now many programs have a rest time or a
nap time and that's typically whenever
teachers can do their jottings
do their anecdotal records put it in the
child's folder
even if they could set aside 10 minutes
every day
and do a child every day or if they feel
like they're really overwhelmed and you
are i mean as a teacher there are so
many things that you have to do and that
documenting and that assessment is just
one more thing so even maybe doing a
child a day
um looking at what the child is doing
jotting some notes down or having a
notepad that whenever you see children
at play you make some notes about
specific children and then trying to
take 10 minutes out of the nap time or
10 minutes at the end of the day the end
of the day i think it's hard because
you're tired
if you have a rest time that is perfect
or even maybe coming in 10 minutes early
in the morning
and you made some notes the day before
and then you're going to transfer those
to the child's folder in the morning but
you almost have to plan for it because
it does get lost with everything else
you have to do
you know if we look at development on a
day-to-day basis if we look at
supporting an individual child with
young children first of all we're
looking at changes dramatic changes over
time in terms of development we're also
looking at
more vulnerabilities to the environment
you know i'm i might get hungry and i'm
not likely to dissolve into tears
whereas a one-year-old might and that's
really going to impact the assessment
data and so the idea that we're
collecting these snapshots over time to
give us a
cohesive complete picture of the child
that we can then make
decisions based on and then evaluate our
decisions appropriate does this seem to
be effective as far as this child this
individual child is concerned all of
that really comes from getting to know
the individual child
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we may think of assessment as being
something like to understand whether or
not where that child's cognitive growth
and development is but assessing a
child's attitudes a child's dispositions
a child's preferences is just as
important in designing any kind of
instructional program
or environment for for young children so
so when you do assessment um sometimes
it's targeted um there may be times
where you want to know does this child
have the basic skills necessary to enter
kindergarten ready to learn um does this
child have particular
emotional
um have they developed emotionally and
socially appropriately for their age
group so you may do that kind of
targeted assessment but really
assessment particularly in young
children because the skills are so the
skills and their developmental levels
are so intertwined that you could be
assessing for any number of a variety of
reasons
some cases for placement more often than
not more appropriately
to really figure out what's the best
environment and how to challenge that
child and help them continue to grow and
develop
probably though the thing that i believe
is the most important is that
teachers are involved with a supportive
community where they're talking all the
time about authentic assessment and they
have other colleagues they can discuss
their
assessments with
and that's hard to do if you're a lone
teacher in a class by yourself but if
you
if your administration isn't providing
that for you then
trying to figure out ways to to find
other people to connect with and have
those discussions i think is really
important
we can think of formal assessment
strategies and we can think of informal
assessment strategies and the informal
assessment strategies are what you do on
a day-to-day basis that are just
interwoven
within the context of effective teaching
it might be jotting brief notes and
compiling them over time it might be
taking running records it might be
taking anecdotal records but the key to
that is to make sure that assessment is
a part of your regular daily curriculum
that you view it as something that's
integral to the success of your
curriculum
when we think about formal assessment
those are more specialized instruments
that we would use periodically
some programs for example do regular
child development screening and
assessment four times a year for infants
and toddlers and twice a year for
preschoolers just to make sure the
development is progressing in a
what's considered a typical manner and
so
what you're anticipating or what you're
utilizing the assessment for will depend
on whether or not it's daily or periodic
but assessment needs to be interwoven
across the curriculum
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[Applause]
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