Assessment and Intervention Reflection
To provide children with a safe and supportive learning environment, and maintain instructional effectiveness, it is important to incorporate observation, documentation, and assessment into your daily routine. It is equally important that teachers acknowledge their own biases to remain open-minded and objective during assessments and truly understand the development and needs of children.
Prepare
To prepare for this journal,
- Complete the Program Feedback SurveyLinks to an external site..
- Review the six-minute video, Recognizing Bias and Promoting Equity in Early Childhood SettingsLinks to an external site..
- Read the fact sheet, Performance-Based Learning and AssessmentLinks to an external site..
- Use the Assessment and Intervention Reflection journal Download Assessment and Intervention Reflection journaltemplate.
In your journal,
- Describe how the information you have learned in your courses here at UAGC has helped prepare you to support the needs of the diverse learners you will work with.
- Discuss three ideas that you learned about assessment and documentation that will benefit your future work with children.
- Explain your understanding of using assessment to drive your instruction planning.
- Summarize the steps that you will take to acknowledge your own biases so that they do not impact your objective assessment of children.
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Week 4: Assessment and Intervention Reflection Journal
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The University of Arizona Global Campus
ECD405: Assessment and Intervention
Instructor's Name
Due Date
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For help completing this assignment, review the following:
· Review the six-minute video, Recognizing Bias and Promoting Equity in Early Childhood Settings
· Read the fact sheet, Performance-Based Learning and Assessment
Assessment and Intervention Reflection Journal
Learning
Include one section of your journal here which describes how the information you learned in your courses here at UAGC have helped to prepare you for supporting the needs of the diverse learners you will work with.
New Ideas
Discuss three new ideas that you learned about in regard to assessment and documentation that will benefit your future work with children. Be descriptive here and offer additional thought, rather than simply listing ideas.
How Assessment Drives Instruction
Include a section here to explain your undersatnding of how using assessment helps to drive your instruction planning.
Acknowledging Biases
Summarize the steps that you will take to acknowledge your own biases, so they do not impact your objective assessment of children.
*One to two page minimum for this assignment.
References
References are not required for this journal. If you choose to use resources, use APA Style to format your sources on the References page. You must include in-text citations throughout your paper to show your reader what information you used from outside sources.
APA academic journal reference entry
Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Article title. Journal Title, volume #(issue #), page range. http://doi.org/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
APA webpage (with a person as author) reference entry
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Webpage title . Website Title. http://(URL)
APA webpage (with corporate/government author) reference entry
Title of Organization. (Year, Month Day). Webpage title . Website Title. http://(URL)
APA etextbook reference entry
Author, A. A. (Year Published). Title of book: Subtitle of book (edition, if other than the first). Publisher Name. https://doi.org/xxx.xxx.xxx (ebook’s DOI, or https://(URL) if not contained within a database and DOI is unavailable)
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