Assessment on Early Childhood Education and Care
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Early Childhood Education and Care 1Early Childhood Education and CareNameInstitution
Early Childhood Education and Care 2IntroductionOwing to the benefits of assessment to early childhood learners and teachers there sneed for periodic assessments of the early childhood learner educational progress. Notably, thereare various early childhood assessment approaches. Namely, there’s the Maori assessmentperspective which is implemented through the Kaupapa Maori assessment model, learning storyapproach, Te Whariki early childhood curriculum and other Pacific-based early childhoodeducation assessment methods. Primarily, assessment helps in planning and supporting earlychildhood learning. Despite similarities between the different assessment approaches, there arestriking differences. In addition reflective practices do play an important role in supportinglearning. Moreover, most assessment approaches are based on the Te Whariki early childhoodcurriculum.Role of Assessment Predominantly implies the collection, documentation, reflection upon and information usein developing portraits of young learners to support and boost future learning. Throughassessment processes, it’s easy to identify what young learner understand, their thinking andcapabilities, dispositions and interests. In addition, through the assessment process, conclusivefeedback on the learning progress of young learners, devise challenging and interest-basedlearning experiences for the young children, incorporate specific support learning systems forthem and future planning (Aistear, n. d ).Noteworthy, through assessment, it is easier to identifyindividual student specific needs (Morrison,2010)in the sense that it is easy to identify the levelof understanding, capabilities, and areas of difficulties for individual young learners and therebyimplement appropriate learning techniques in combating the learner's challenge.
Early Childhood Education and Care 3 According to the Southern Early childhood Association, assessment forms the basis of vitaldecisions on young learner development and education needs. Following the informationgathered from assessment, educators for young learners are able to develop appropriatecurriculum for young learners to enhance their development. Also, through assessment, younglearners early childhood educational needs and practices develop thus the importance ofconducting the regular assessment. Early childhood assessment points out the strengths andweaknesses of young learners which is vital in construing education goals for young learners(Department of education, 2015).Through assessment, teacher and family partnerships arestrengthened in the sense that through individual learner assessment, teachers communicate thesame to a family who are encouraged to partner with teachers to support the young learnereducation progress. Also, program quality can be assessed through collected information during assessment thusprompting the necessary action in supporting young learners. In addition, through assessment,records of development and progress of early learners is evident and additional support areas forchallenged students identified for better learning outcomes of early childhood learners(Resourcesfor early learning,2014).In addition, assessment plays a supportive role to the learning process inthe sense that through assessments of early childhood learners, educators are able to screen,diagnose problematic areas for students and form appropriate responsive instruction forimproving the learning process. Moreover, through the performance of assessments, educatorsare able to recognize areas of special or additional attention which goes a long way in supportingthe learning process and bettering performance (Schaaik,2016). In addition, through assessment reports, educators and other stakeholders are able to monitorand evaluate current curriculum through summative assessments. Accountability can also be
Early Childhood Education and Care 4achieved through assessment in the sense that educators are able to have a record of theirperformance through documentation of early childhood activity and performance. Also, resourceallocation can be accounted for and educator professionalism and expertise performance visiblefor other stakeholders. Moreover, through assessment its easier to view the progress of learners,if the teaching methods are effective, program quality evaluation and if the targets for earlychildhood education are being met by the educators and measure of understanding of the earlychildhood learners (Gillis, West and Coleman,2017).Assessment is an essential tool for planningand supporting early childhood learning process.Learning Story Approach Primarily, learning stories approach is based on teacher narrations on learning as opposed toassessment of young learner skills and knowledge thus considered not an effective tool inassessing learning outcomes for early childhood student. Basically, learning story refers to arecord of child activity during an early childhood program. Learning story can be done byteachers and parents thus the flexibility of this assessment tool. Moreover, learning stories areeffective when interpreted thereby showing competencies and dispositions of children towardsthe learning process. Notably, the New Zealand government has recognized learning storyapproach in its early childhood education program to evaluate the development and educationalprogress of its early childhood learners for planning and support learning purposes. In addition, learning stories are hard to validate or account and it’s impossible to evaluatelearning progress over a given period of time (Blaicklock, 2008).However, learning stories areupheld due to their flexibility, encouraged teacher and parent participation in supportingeducation for their young learners. Some education experts do not consider leaning stories are
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