{"id":1304,"date":"2015-04-17T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2015-04-17T13:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:35:13","slug":"authentic-assessment-in-early-childhood-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/authentic-assessment-in-early-childhood-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Authentic Assessment in Early Childhood Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3>Gathering Information About Children Through a Variety of Ways<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>Latin derivative of the word \u201cassessment\u201d is \u201cto sit beside and get to know\u201d&#8230;Let&#8217;s get to know our children by using an ongoing process of gathering information through observation &amp; regular documentation then sharing &amp; requesting input from a variety of professionals.\u00a0 We will look at the teaching process of using assessment, observation, documentation, standards and curriculum to best evaluate and change our teaching skills and enviroment to provide quality early childhood experiences and growth in children.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges or Obstacles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenges occur when we do not meld the assessment, observation, documentation with the curriculum and standards.\u00a0 We will look at ways to improve our assessment processes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits and Successes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the benefits is effectively identifing children who may be in need of specialized services.\u00a0 As well as planning constructive instruction for individuals and groups of children.<\/li>\n<li>Evaluation of our program and measuring how well we are meeting goals for children.<\/li>\n<li>And finally our assessment process can identify program needs for improvement and staff development needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submitted by:<\/strong>\u00a0Sue Ann\u00a0Nu\u00f1ez,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffermcc.org\">Huffer Memorial Children&#8217;s Center<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering Information About Children Through a Variety of Ways Latin derivative of the word \u201cassessment\u201d is \u201cto sit beside and get to know\u201d&#8230;Let&#8217;s get to know our children by using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,38,45,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-showcase","category-early-childhood-content-area","category-early-childhood-grade","category-huffer-memorial","category-instructional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}