QUOTES ABOUT CHILDREN

October 26, 2013

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  – Haim Ginott

“If a child cannot learn in the way we teach, we must teach in a way the child can learn.”

- Unknow

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

- Stacia Tauscher

 

“Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.”

- George Evan

 

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 

“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

- Dr. Seuss

 

“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.”

- Lady Bird Johnson

 

“Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.”

- Deepa Bhushan

 

“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”

- Fred Rogers

 

 

 

 

 

Testing for Intelligence?

October 12, 2013
First I am going to define assessment. NAEYC and NAECS/SDE define it as the gathering of useful information for the purpose of constructing understandings about children that guide educational decisions.

The most appropriate use of assessment is in the service of instruction; assessment information should be used to make school experiences and life better for children.

Assessment is one of the best ways of discovering your students present knowledge of skills. I find informal assessment the greatest tool of all because it allows me to observe the child on a daily base or at least three times a week without their knowledge. Also it gives me the opportunity to observe them when they are not been assessed formally.

I believe the whole child should be assessed. This means the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual because teachers will have an understanding of the child's educational needs.

The country I have chosen: South Africa because they use the assessment tools such as:
Developing Tests & Questionnaires for a National Assessment of Educational Achievement
Subnational Assessment
Binet Assessment Tool (IQ test)

For example:
Emotional: In my classroom there is one little girl who cries every morning and the other students call her baby and always trying to pick her up and hug her, also nurturing her by patting her. This is showing empathy.

Social: Children in my class always play well with each other.

Physical: I noticed that the children need more practice on the skills as hopping and skipping.

Intellectual: Needs more practice on problem solving as fitting puzzle pieces together.

As a Head Start teacher we use Brigance Assessment Tool, Observation, and Anecdotal records.