Question | Answer |
developmentally appropriate practice | planning instruction for preschool children around topics rooted in the children's social world. |
portfolios | places, such as folders, boxes, or baskets, for keeping all the information know about the children in a class. great tool when have a parent-teacher conference, to show them what the child has done. |
accountability | specified learning objectives stated in broad behavioral terms, including NCLB-come from theinput/out philosophy of business. |
learner outcomes | expectations for children performances as defined by professional association, the federal gvt, state legislature, & school districts. |
informal evaluation | composed of techniques used in these circumstances. activities to solve, fit into the routine of the day. |
individualized academic tests | formal interviews of children on a topic such as reading or mathematics, teacher not only learns firsthand what the 2nd or 3rd grader knows, but also how he or she approached the task. |
artifacts | |
webbing | an outlining technique that shows graphically or visually the relationships among ideas.cactus-where lines leading from the cactus identify what children know about cacti-plant etc. serves as a document learning. |
Regio Emilia | holistic community way to develop Early childhood programs that includes all stakeholders- child, parents, teachers, school leaders, & the community at large. fosters children's intellectual dvt through a systematic focus on symbolic rep. |
Constructivist perspective | a child-centered holistic, problem-solving, investigatory approach to creating curriculum experience. inquiry-based &as emergent curriculum. key component thought-provoking questions. |
textbook tests | assessment materials published by textbook publishers to accompany their instructional materials. are the materials harmonious w/ the philosophy of education? |
standard-based teaching | an approach to teaching that requires teachers to coordinate instruction to specified standards or goals. |
achievement testing | |
test prep | giving review questions and having children think about the question/problem; then they talk together to compare the answer sharing the combined answer w/ the class. |
portfolios servel several important purpose | integrating instruction &assessment; providing student, teacher, parent, admin. &other decision-makers w/ essential information about child progress &overall classroom activities; making it possible for children to participate in assessing their own work. |