Course: Child Progress Monitoring: Actionable Data in Early Childhood Classrooms
Description
Are you tracking data in meaningful ways that inform the teaching and learning in your ECE classroom? Are you tracking data that is valid and useful? This course module will help teachers understand the importance of child progress monitoring as it relates to their teaching.
Topics
Competencies
Knowledge
Are you tracking data in meaningful ways that inform the teaching and learning in your ECE classroom? Are you tracking data that is valid and useful? This course module will help teachers understand the importance of child progress monitoring as it relates to their teaching.
Topics
- Developmental screening tools are an important way to assess and understand where our children are developmentally.
- Informal and formal assessments are tracked, shared, and used to inform our teaching, understanding, and approaches to our classroom practices to ensure that children are engaged in their learning and mastering concepts and skills.
Competencies
Knowledge
- Learn how data can be used to inform our teaching practice
- Learn how a strong understanding of child development and learning standards is critical to your instruction
- Create an assessment plan that aligns to curriculum and unit plans
- Plan assessments so that they occur regularly and inform teaching
- Use a variety of instructional practices to meet the needs of children
- Learn why data tracking can and should done meaningfully
- Learn why child progress must be shared with stakeholders
- Learn why assessments need to be research-based, developmentally appropriate, and/or authentic