Co-Author of Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning is the only text that shows assessment as a process teacher can use to improve teaching and ensure student learning. It incorporates current trends in assessment with examples and approaches being used in early childhood classrooms. The assessment strategies presented are compatible with all approaches to educating young children. The social, cultural, legal, and ethical context of assessment and its implications for teachers and teaching are realistically presented.
Co-Author of A Framework for Early Literacy Instruction: Aligning Standards to Developmental Patterns and Student Behaviors-Pre-K through Kindergarten. It articulates a set of standards and benchmarks that is based on current national and state standards documents and that reflects the foundational knowledge and developmental differences representative of the research on early literacy development and the prekindergarten and kindergarten levels. It also provides sufficient and appropriate information aligned with the standards and benchmarks to aid prekindergarten and kindergarten teachers in assessing the early literacy development of their students. For standard 1, "Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the reading process," five benchmarks are outlined. For standard 2, "Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process," three benchmarks are established.
Marian Wright Edelman…
“I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.”
“The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe”
“We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
J. Hagel…
“Passion comes from within each of us; it cannot be imposed or mandated from outside. At the same time, it compels us to move outside and to engage with the world around us”. – Wk 2 Discussion
The quote that you posted, "I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.”
ReplyDeleteI love this quote! I feel that everyone is put on earth for a specific reason and when you find out what you were meant to do, it is an amazing feeling. Every day when I get the chance to work with children and their families, I realize more and more that this is my passion. I really like your choice of quotes!
Hi Kaysha,
ReplyDeleteI liked the quote you chose about passion. I think sometimes our passion is hidden somewhere into us, and as soon as we have a certain experience, it is when we become aware of that passion. In addition, to find our passion, we need an open mind, to face any different experience, it may be the one we need to uncover our passion.
I really like the quote from Marian Wright Edelman, I believe that if we all feel this way about our profession then we never really "work" a day in our lives! Pursuing your passion is ideally what I would hope each person working with children want.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to the quote by Marian Wright Edelman.
ReplyDelete“I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.”
I believe being passionate makes all the difference.