基本説明
Provides teachers with an approach to assessment that is in the best interest of both children and their families.
Full Description
In an era of standards and norms where assessment tends to minimize or dismiss individual differences and results in punitive outcomes or no action at all, Assessment of Young Children provides teachers with an approach to assessment that is in the best interest of both children and their families. Author Lisa B. Fiore explores a variety of ways to study and assess young children in their natural environments, while stressing the importance of bringing children and families into the process. This lively text helps the reader learn how to cultivate developmentally appropriate practice, create appropriate expectations, examine children's work, interact in groups, and improve their teacher behavior. Accounts of real experiences from children, families, teachers, and administrators provide on-the-ground models of assessment stategies and demonstrate how children are affected.Assessment of Young Children explores both standardized and authentic assessment, work sampling systems, and observation skills. Readers will walk away with strategies for communicating information about children and portfolio assessment, and how the use of formal and informal methods of observation, documentation, and assessment are connected to teacher and student inquiry. Assessment of Young Children encourages an assessment strategy where the child remains the focus and explores how collaboration with children, families, and colleagues creates an image-not a diagnosis-of the child that is empowering rather than constraining.Special Features Include:Case Study examples that anchor the concepts presented in the chapters and engage readers more deeply in the content."Now what?" and "Avenues for Inquiry" throughout the book present students with concrete extensions of the material that they may pursue for further investigation
Contents
1. What do you notice?Why? - Seeds of InquiryWho? - Examining the learning group - individual and group learnersWhen? - Developmentally appropriate practiceHow? - Considering Assessment Methods and ToolsWhere? - Location, Location, Location2. Role of the EnvironmentContext: Classroom, School, CommunityCultural IssuesCase Study - Family interviewClimate: Guidelines and StandardsCase Study - Reggio Emilia, Chicago Common3. ObservationLooking AND ListeningCase Study - The Pedagogy of Listening (Carlina Rinaldi)Documentation as Noun (Product) and Verb (Process)Turning observation into advocacyCase Study - Videatives.com4. Standardized AssessmentTraditional AssessmentObjectivity vs. SubjectivityParadigm Shifts and Cultural ShiftsCase Study - Draw -a-Person Test5. Authentic Assessment Balancing idealism and realityCollaborationResponse to InterventionCase Study - Looking at Student Work (LASW) protocol6. The Play's the ThingHistorical ViewsRecognizing significance in ordinary momentsCase Study - Vivian Paley excerptSocial and Emotional CompetenceThe Play ImperativeCase Study - Alliance for Childhood statement7. Viva le differenceFacets of DiversityCulturally Sensitive PracticeUniversal DesignCase Study --8. Now what? Evaluating dataWriting reports and IEPsCommunicating with families, administrators, and legislatorsUtilizing TechnologyCase Study --9. Teacher as ResearcherInquiryEthicsCase Study - Eleanor Duckworth or Hawkins Institute
