Teaching
Each professional standard emphasizes knowledge and _____.
What are skills?
This is required in observations; the state of being able to see what is real and realistic, as distinguished from subjective and personal opinion or bias.
What is objectivity?
Using written notes, can itemize activities or on-going behaviors and see patterns, rich in detail and shows sequence of events, describes behavior as it occurs, but can be biased if the observer isn't objective, and is time-consuming.
What is a narrative?
An Individual Education Plan (IEP) is written for this many children.
What is one?
Spoken, written, or acted on in strict privacy, such as keeping the names of children or schools in confidence when discussing observations.
What is confidentiality?
This type of teaching means that the teacher has a purpose for everything that is done.
What is intentional teaching?
Understanding what is observed includes learning about children as _____ and in ______.
What are individuals and groups?
Using prepared recording sheets; can be completed during or after class, easy to use but lacks detail and doesn't show potential cause of any behaviors.
What is a checklist?
Assessment must occur in a variety of _____ over time, drawing on many sources of information.
What is settings?
The degree or level of requirement, excellence, or attainment mandated by local or national government or private agencies that articulate the objectives necessary for teacher preparation.
What are standards?
Teacher quality can be improved with a quality type of this tool.
What is assessment?
Accurate observations require watching carefully, collecting what is important, and avoiding conclusions or ______.
What is judgement?
Recording how often a behavior occurs within a certain time period.
What is a frequency count?
This assessment method tracks children's growth and development.
What is a portfolio?
This type of curriculum emphasizes an inclusive look at people and includes elements of multi-cultural education and pluralism.
What is anti-bias?
This sets out standards of behavior based on core values that all early childhood professionals share.
What is a professional code of ethics?
As part of DAP, observations of a child can be made on these three levels.
What is report exactly what the child does, express how the child seems to feel about what happened, and include your own interpretations as a separate step?
Writing down the actions or behaviors as they are occurring.
What is a running record?
These are three of the concerns about child assessments.
What are unfair comparisons, bias, overemphasis on norms, interpretation, too narrow a perspective, too wide a range, too little or too much time, and teaching to the test?
Using different methods to teach the same concept, used to accommodate the different learning styles of individual children.
What is differentiated instruction?
The six essentials of team teaching.
What are collaboration & collegiality, role definition & satisfaction, flexibility, open & frequent communication, self-awareness, and mutual respect & acceptance?
These are the five big reasons why we observe children.
What is to improve your teaching, to construct and apply theory, to build curriculum, to help families, and to assess children.
An observation technique that involves observing certain behavior and settings within a prescribed time frame.
What is time sampling?
The six main things assessments are made to do.
What are establish a baseline, monitor children's progress, plan for guidance & intervention, plan curriculum, communicate with families, and make administrative decisions?
Not noticeable or conspicuous, in the background.
What is unobtrusive?