Role of the teacher and child in relation to assessment
As a teacher our role through assessing children is to raise the standards and improve the child's learning. With appropriate training for teachers they will be able to effectively produce reliable and valid judgments from their assessment methods (Gardner, Harlen & Hayward, 2010). Teachers need to make sure when doing assessments that they produce fair assessments towards all children. To make reliable assessments is to observe children on two different occasions to make sure that you get the same result on both occasions. When approaching assessment as teachers we have to know that we can't have bias approaches to assessment. It is unfair if we favour a child over another or if you assess a child who 3 and is not so good at balancing against a child who is almost 5 and is great at balancing and compare them both is an unfair assessment. We also need to be culturally aware of the different cultures around us and what they bring to the early childhood classroom, such as language issues and different routines and ways of doing things. Once we gather information from assessing we must then evaluate it and see what it tells us about the child's learning (Krause, Borhner, Suchesne & MchMaugh, 2010). It is important to
include the child in the assessment progress. We need to be able to
share the information with children such as their portfolios in an
early childhood setting, invite them to ask questions and know how
young children learn (Guddemi & Case, 2004). By getting children to look at their portfolios, they see photos of themselves doing certain activities and hopefully this will encourage them to continue the good work and develop more skills (Krause, Borhner, Suchesne & MchMaugh, 2010).
References
Gardner, J., Harlen, W., & Hayward, L. (2010). Developing teacher assessment. Berkshire, England: Open University Press.
Guddemi, M., & Case, B. J. (2004). Assessing young children. Retrieved from http://www.pearsonassessments.com/NR/rdonlyres/FD21F054-A5AD-42AE-9A00-43878827FD76/0/AssessingYoungChildren.pdf
Krause, K-L, Brohner, S., Duchesne,. McMaugh, A. (2010). Educational psychology for learning and teaching. Third ed. Cengage learning Australia Pty limited.
References
Gardner, J., Harlen, W., & Hayward, L. (2010). Developing teacher assessment. Berkshire, England: Open University Press.
Guddemi, M., & Case, B. J. (2004). Assessing young children. Retrieved from http://www.pearsonassessments.com/NR/rdonlyres/FD21F054-A5AD-42AE-9A00-43878827FD76/0/AssessingYoungChildren.pdf
Krause, K-L, Brohner, S., Duchesne,. McMaugh, A. (2010). Educational psychology for learning and teaching. Third ed. Cengage learning Australia Pty limited.