ROLE OF TEACHING ASSESSMENT 2022

Educational psychology
and Pedagogical
Practices
4/17/2020

TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT 1
The role of teaching and assessment in young
children's learning and development
The intent of this essay is to present a discussion related to the role as well as importance
of the teaching and assessment in the learning along with their contribution in the development
of young children. The paper is also discussing the pedagogical approaches used for teaching and
assessment. The discussion is being made related to the contemporary approaches to teaching
and assessment that are used in early childhood. In the end, the paper is examining the
importance of the professional and ethical role of teaching and assessing young children.
Teaching is considered to be the best art of the teacher to rouse the joy in the form of
artistic expression and knowledge. The art of teaching is also called to be the art of assisting
discovery. Teachers concentrate on the complete development of children like social, cognitive,
physical, and emotional development. Teachers' roles are to facilitate the development and
education of children by planning different lessons and activities depending on the interest of the
children's questions to further actively engaging in the activities together with the child. Teachers
are receptive and nurturing the children's needs. Teachers are the ones who guide and mentor the
procedure from inside the situation of learning (Children’s Choice Child Care Services, 2020).
The time children get involved with the material of learning and with other children, teachers
support the learning by providing them new vocabulary, signifying the best possible solutions to
the issues, offering resources, routing behaviors, or reflecting them where to get more
information. Teaching is considered to be important because it helps in exploring, nurturing,
guiding, and solving the problems of the children. They work as a listener, learner, and observer
(Gardner & Cass, 2014).

TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT 2
The use of assessments and tests works as instruments of the policy of education and
growing practice. All through the school session, tests are used for making the decisions related
to retention, graduation, promotion, or tracking, there are number of teachers that make use of
assessments or tests because they are important for identifying the differences in learning among
different students or to notify the instrumental planning (Neaum, 2019). Extensive public
concern to increase the standards of the education has resulted in augmenting the use of large-
scale achievement tests as the accountability instruments. Assessment to support the learning for
providing teachers with the data that can work as a basis for the curriculum and pedagogical
decisions (The National Academic Press, 2020).
The primary concern of the teachers is their leaners. They have to make them learn in a
correct order such that they can grab good things properly. There is the use of some tools in
teaching and assessment like visuals, books, and other materials (Tes, 2018). But, it is not
considered to be an easy process since they have to be aware of the Pedagogical Approaches that
improve the process of teaching and assessment.
Teaching Approaches
Constructivist Approach - This approach is based on believing that people can learn by
their experiences and reflection. This education places the child at the center of the learning
which is also known as ‘invisible pedagogy’. As per the analysis, this approach involves project
work, inquiry-based learning, and it can also adopt a Montessori or Steiner method (Tes, 2018).
Behaviorism Approach - This pedagogy makes use of the behaviorism theory in order to
inform its approach. According to this approach, learning is teacher-centered. It can support the
adoption of lessons depending on the lecture and direct instruction. In other words, this theory