Defend Your Position

This week Mrs. Ashland has been asked to be a part of a shared decision-making opportunity in an effort to adopt a center wide informal assessment tool that is developmentally appropriate for preschool children. Use this information to help develop your assignment

Read the 3 headings and scenarios which present various current controversies in early education. Choose one of the arguments and then choose a side of the argument to defend using your content knowledge, knowledge of developmentally appropriate assessment practices presented in Chapter 5, critical thinking and personal philosophy.

Heading 1:

Are Formal Standardized Tests acceptable to use in preschool?

Standardized Recess Image

Heading 2:

Do you think teachers are adequately prepared to use assessment data to make instructional decisions?

Positive for Stress

Heading 3:

Should there be a form of on-going informal assessment at the infant/toddler levels?

ECE Standardized Assessment schedule.