Documentation
Terms
Observations
Assessment
Odds and Ends
100
The most common window for framing documentation
What is the learning experience window?
100
Children's work that serves as evidence of their knowledge, skills, and behaviors
What is Documents or Documentation, or What is work samples?
100
Observe, Document, Reflect, Assess, Plan
What is the Observation cycle?
100
a set of ratings graduated by level of quality and used to assess early learning and care programs
What is a Quality Improvement Rating System, or a QIRS?
100
When writing anecdotes, be sure to avoid being this.
What is being subjective?
200
Photographs, drawings and written descriptions of the children's activities that are mounted and displayed for all partners (parents, educators etc.) to see.
What is a documentation Panel?
200
Thoughts and opinions which are free of bias or prejudice, an aim or goal
What is Objective?
200
Pens, pencils, post it notes, notebooks, clipboards, index cards, address labels
What is making observation a part of your systematic routine? Or tools for observations.
200
focuses on the quality of classroom interactional processes.
What is the CLASS?
200
An advantage is using quick tally marks to record results in this technique.
What is frequency counts?
300
A teacher can use documentation to do this on a personal level
What is reflect?
300
a folder or binder that chronologically displays a child's developmental progress thorugh observation notes, work samples, daily journal, parent informtion, checklists, developmental profile and summary of developmental progress.
What is a Portfolio
300
Observe over time, watch children in varied situations, keep track of what you see, observe in and out of the action.
What are guidelines to help you to be an effective observer?
300
ECERS ITERS FCCERS SACERS
What are the four Environmental Rating Scales?
300
Creativity Independence Resilience Self-Motivation
What are desirable dispositions?
400
The process of gathering information to document a child's skills and development.
What is assessment?
400
a genuine demonstration of children's skill, behavior, and knowledge.
What is Evidence?
400
use preferred recording tools, collect observation records and documentation, organize containers for each child's observation notes and samples.
What does an observation system require?
400
Children are personally and socially competent Children are effective learners Children show physical and motor competence Children are safe and healthy
What is the 4 Desired Results for Children?
400
Learning Foundations Curriculum Frameworks Program Guidelines and Resources Desired Results Professional Development
What is the California Early Learning and Development System?
500
Demands for accountability and demands for developmentally appropriate learning.
What does documentation support?
500
an unfair pre-judgment
What is Bias?
500
gain a comprehensive understanding of each child, collabrate with staff and families about missing information and different perspectives, use new information to plan individualized instruction and display progress, work with parents to form a partnership.
What is to Review and Reflect?
500
Children at this level engage in play and communicate about play with peers; initiate cooperative activities with adults; show increasing knowledge of print; use familiar strategies to solve problems; know some letters and numbers; sor and count small qualtities of objects; copy patterns; use movement skills in a variey of setting and tasks...
What is the DRDP developmental level, Developing?
500
Planned in 3 separate phases, using children as the driving force.
What is The Project Approach?
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