Example of Professional Development Workshops designed to expand upon teacher expertise, enrich the learning environment, and better understand the whole child.
1. Assessment and Evaluation Basic Principles, Intended Audience, and Enhancing Communication Presented By: Lillian Vania, MEd. October 13, 2010
2. Assessment and Evaluation Williamstown Community Preschool October 13, 2010 Name: 2 hours: Observation, Assessment, and Planning for Individual Need Presenter: Lillian Vania, MEd Basic Principles, Intended Audience, and Enhancing Communication
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4. These four concepts work in tandem to provide the most complete understanding of an individual child and the child within the group:
10. We plan with prompts to elicit actions to observe and document.
11. We observe to provide information for assessment.What is the end result? Understanding of the whole child Assessment and Evaluation Communication with parents and caregivers
13. Assessment and Evaluation The terms assessment and evaluation are often used interchangeably, in actuality they are two parts of the same process.1 Assessment is the process of gathering evidence of what the child can do. Evaluation is the process that follows this collection of data, including analysis and reflection, as well as decisions based on the data. 1. Assessing and Evaluating Student Learning: Atlantic Canada English Language Arts Curriculum: K-3 p. 263-264
18. To assist learners in their quest for understanding at the point in time in which we (teachers) encounter them in the classroom 2Assessment and Evaluation 2. Jacobs, Heidi Hayes Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12
24. A reflection of the desired outcomes of Creative Curriculum
25. Designed to use multiple sources of information collected in a variety of contexts
26. Designed to recognize learners as active partners in their own learning and in the evaluation of that learning.Assessment and Evaluation 3. Assessing and Evaluating Student Learning: Atlantic Canada English Language Arts Curriculum: K-3 p. 263-264
35. The Intended Audience Parent (noun) A father or mother Any organism that generates another Caregiver (noun) A person who has custody, guardianship, or supervision of a child
36. Who is your audience?: Personality Describe using the Johari Window Model The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-awareness and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. The Johari Window model can also be used to assess a group's relationship with other groups. The Groups: Parents/ Caregivers Teachers The Johari Window represents information: feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation, etc. within or about a person in relation to their group, from four perspectives.
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39. To be our most effective and productive so that the group is also productive
89. Each of the world’s cultures has evolved within its own environment to serve its people in their interactions with each other and with outsiders. No one culture is superior in values or utility, nonetheless, culture shapes outlook in a variety of subtle ways.
92. Non-verbal communication includes a huge variety of largely unconscious patterns, such as facial expressions and other body language, volume of speaking, touch and physical proximity, eye contact, and silence. All of these vary according to culture, and everyone has learned to use these patterns in one, automatic, culturally approved way.
93. The non-verbal communication of people from other cultures is either received and interpreted within one's own cultural framework, or, frequently, not received at all.
94. Each culture has a variety of largely unstated assumptions and beliefs about the educational process and about what is supposed to happen in a classroom.
104. Assessment and Evaluation Assessment is the process of gathering evidence of what the child can do. Evaluation is the process that follows this collection of data, including analysis and reflection, as well as decision based on the data. Parent and Caregiver personality affects how the assessment and evaluation process is approached and received. We, as teachers, have the power to enhance communication by enlarging the “arena” and reducing the “blind spot”. Assessment and Evaluation provide a picture of the whole child so that teachers and parents/ caregivers can provide the best learning environment for each child within the group.
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106. A behavior that is not affected by “traditional solutions”
112. Jot down some notes to share on November 13th. This will be an opportunity to work as a team with the child study method
Notas del editor
Ask for examples of evidence: notes from observation, photographs capturing an action, paintings, etc.
Exercise: how can you include your age group in the evaluation of what they are learning- link this to communication with parents later on in presentation
Question to guide perspective 1: What do both groups of participants know about each other?Follow-up question: What qualities do we need to add or remove to have good communication and cooperation and reduce mistrust and conflict?
Question to prompt the group: What are some characteristics of parents you have interacted with that they seem to be unaware of? What characteristics immediately set a negative tone? Example: Branda @ the beginning of each school year- fight or flight mode!
