What You Have Learned About Why We Assess Young Children

Consider what you ready learned about why we assess teenage clawren. Based on pages 3133 ofAssessing and Guiding Young Childrens Development and Learningand the video segment Overview of Assessment, briefly explain the importance of developmentally appropriate assessments. ANS There are different importance of developmentally appropriate assessments that I learned from our text. As a t each(prenominal)ers we can not have a bun in the oven every age are the same or makes an assumption about their development and learn style.It is very important to identify which area each child need special care and set a goal on how we can help them out. Assessment help teachers to set a goal for each child in their care. Assessment information can used as communication log in a meeting with other staffs or with prove in a conference. Policymakers, the early childhood profession, and other stakeholders in young childrens lives have many shared responsibilities regarding effective assessment (NA EYC & NAEC/SDE, 2003, p. 4).Using the information depicted on pages 36 of Assessing and Guiding Young Childrens Development and Learning, explain the responsibilities of each of these groups in ensuring effective assessment. ANS As a victor child care our responsibilities to control an effective assessment is to identify the make issue that we are trying to help each child on. Set a goal and programs that can help to improve their literacy and development. After the assessment teachers should use the appropriate assessment methods on each child.Share their results with the children, their parent and others staffs. Also as the text stated developing sensible pupil grading procedures which use pupil assessment. Parent,policy makers and the general public with the accountability are expected to report their procedures and they are sensitive to children progress make surely children do well on their accountability tests. The test to this result are available to everyone from teach ers, parent to general public.Professionals must have detail information to present to other for children with special needs. Teachers must be sensitive to children from different culture because their authoritys are different from United States systems. Most children are going to have their first experience in speaking English in their classroom among their peers and their caregiver. Assessment must be done in the right way to reach the right goal for each child in our care. Each child approaches, inter comes, and processes their world in unique ways.Effective assessment takes this uniqueness into account through aesthesia to individual abilities and linguistic, social, and cultural differences. Review pages 1823 ofAssessing and Guiding Young Childrens Development and Learning, and explain, using examples, why sensitivity to each of these factors is such an important voice of effective assessment. Then, summarize the role fair and impartial assessment plays in achieving this se nsitivity. ANS The reason why each of these factors on assess all children pretty is because children with disabilities are special in their own ways.Even though they may not fit in the category of their peers but they are still required to be challenges and have the right activities put in place for them. Other other hand many children here in United States are from diverse homes. And as a teacher we must be sensitive to children culture and their belief and value. Children that comes from different background from us may speak different from us and act in a different way, but we should judge them and understand everyone act and do things differently. Because culture influence the way children thinks, the way they interact with people around them.Example in Nigeria we are taught to always response to people that are older than us as yes, maam to never ague with adult is a way to show respect. Assessment information help teachers to identify which areas children needs help and it can be used as communication tools among staffs or other professional child care. However right assessment method must be use on each child to achieve the right information that I needed for each child. Reference Assessing and Guiding Young Childrens Development and Learning