In this article, I discuss how learning to use authentic assessment strategies starts with learning to see and observe children in their environments and continues with a teacher’s evaluation and reflection.
Functional analysis is a tool that allows educators to figure out the purpose or function of challenging behavior as well as the events that trigger and maintain it.
Now, in a study funded by the Brady Education Foundation, researchers are testing a culturally flexible tool that will support agency in classrooms so that more children will be offered dynamic and sophisticated learning experiences.
Authored by
Authored by:
Natacha N. Jones, Amber T. Fowler, Jennifer Keys Adair
The use of ePortfolios offers an avenue for authentically documenting and sharing children’s learning in both early childhood settings and home environments.
In this article, we discuss the importance of professional vision, then describe the Video Analysis Framework we created to support its development through focused observation, identifying and disrupting bias, and more.
Authored by
Authored by:
Miriam Packard, Carolyn Brennan, Gail E. Joseph, Katharine Emerson-Hoss
Digital documentation such as photos, videos, and audio recordings offer windows into a classroom environment and can also help increase families’ respect for and understanding of the work a program does.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
By encouraging teachers to recognize children as learners at any given moment, Learning Stories provide a way to document children’s strengths and improve instruction based on the interests, talents, and expertise of children and families.
If you join children during their play and ask open-ended, person-oriented and process-oriented questions, you can gain information about what each child understands and is coming to understand.
