Get University Of Connecticut Request For Activities Projects Assessments Or Observations In Child 2011-2025

Assessment can: Provide a record of growth in all developmental areas: cognitive, physical/motor, language, social-emotional, and approaches to learning. Identify children who may need additional support and determine if there is a need for intervention or support services.

Observations help guide our decisions, inform our practices, and help us to develop a plan of action that best fits each child's individual needs.

Observations allow teachers and families to collaborate to meet children's needs in curriculum, interactions, and environmental set up. Young children should not be “tested”. Authentic assessment allows teachers to observe skills, knowledge, and behaviors in a natural manner.

Observations, documentations, and the results of other formal and informal assessments are used to inform the planning and implementing of daily curriculum and experiences, to communicate with the child's family, and to evaluate and improve educators' and the program's effectiveness.

When you really see the child, you get to know her and see more of her abilities, interests, and personal characteristics. Knowing each child helps you to plan individualized and developmentally informed activities. Look at what the child does and says without evaluating or labeling.

Observations, documentations, and the results of other formal and informal assessments are used to inform the planning and implementing of daily curriculum and experiences, to communicate with the child's family, and to evaluate and improve educators' and the program's effectiveness.

Observation is the formal term for one of the most important aspects of day-to- day professional practice when working with children of all ages. It is how we find out the specific needs of individual children by carefully looking, listening and noting the activities of a child or group of children.

Integrating observation into practice can hold many benefits including: Planning for and designing a responsive child-centred curriculum. Ensuring teaching strategies support the child to achieve personal goals. Providing ways to describe the child's skills and abilities.

Observation of a child's behavior can: Help an educator better understand why a child might be having challenging behavior. Identify special needs. Better understand the child. Allows for documentation of skills. Shows the child's communication style. See what their interactions with their peers are like.