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Week 3

One of the major things that stood out to me while looking through the WSS and Teaching Strategies website, is that the assessments have a “not yet” section for each developmental area/objective. I think that this is something important to have and makes it more user/parent friendly. This indicates that the child is simply not exhibiting the objective yet, but their skills are emerging. This is something that an educator can support a child with in order to strengthen and improve these skills. Whereas the screener testing examples have an “OK” or “Potential Delay” scoring. Using the term “Potential Delay” on a single assessment isn’t something that I would feel comfortable with as an educator. T he article Moving Forward With Kindergarten Assessment Efforts states that “ It is important, however, to understand that a single assessment instrument cannot, and should not, be used to meet all of the child, instructional, policy, programmatic, and accountability purposes a ...

Introduction

Aloha everyone! My name is Courtney and I am pursuing my Bachelor's degree in ECED. I expect to graduate next semester. I am from Kaua'i and have been teaching for the past 7 years at various different preschools. I am currently a Teacher/Site Coordinator with the Keiki Steps Program (Inpeace Hawai'i). We are a free parent participation preschool program that serves families with keiki from 0-5 years old. We conduct daily observations, create child portfolio's and have assessments that differ depending on the child's age. Such as the ounce scale, P4 Standards, ASQ's and PPVT's.  I have a daughter who is almost 4 years old and I am also expecting another daughter to arrive next month! :) I am eager to see how this semester goes and what we can all learn from one another. Good luck to everyone!