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Boosting quality through effective self-assessment
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Shawna Ebbeson, M.S.
Owner/Family EducatorHands and Feet Early
Childhood and Family Learning Center
http://tinyurl.com/oqmza85
Shawna is passionate about high-quality education. She has over 30 years experience in child care, including private, in-home family child care, as well as licensed center experience.
Shawna is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in early childhood education. She is an early childhood consultant, online instructor, and homeschool educator.
She experienced in all subject matters from birth through 9th grades. She has created her own curriculum for early and middle childhood to best accommodate a child-centered learning experience for her students. She now uses these experiences to empower families of young children and business professionals as an Early Childhood Consultant.
Shawna holds a •BS in organizational communication from Kaplan University •MS in early childhood studies from Walden University•Graduate certificates from Walden University in
• Teaching adults in ECE
•Graduate coursework in• Digital Marketing• Social Media• Leadership and Management• Communication
•Doctoral Candidate in Early Childhood Education at Walden University in
Meet your instructorShawna Ebbeson
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Visit our Virtual Family Learning Center
Let’s explore…
Part 1 Activity
Game on!Seeing how synergy really
works in the classroom
Scavenger Hunt: Recognizing learning styles as means to boost quality
Part 2
Critical questions a self-assessment needs to
answer
Let’s Talk
Q&A
Synergy of Standards, practice, and assessments
Activity
What we are going to talk about today
Recap
Recap
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OBJECTIVES
•Identifying and recognizing quality that already exists in the classrooms•Boost awareness of standards and practices that may hinder quality•Promote deeper thinking of how self-assessments can lead to better quality•Illustrate how the synergy of standards, practices, and self-assessments impact educator effectiveness•Understand how learning styles influence the quality of early learning programs and effective self-assessment
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Program Objectives
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Boosting quality through effective self-assessment
The synergy of standards, practice, and assessment
Part 1
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Synergy of Standards, practice, and assessment
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Designed to address the
“achievement gap”
This gap is apparent as early as 36
months
45 states have adopted the
common core
• Standards are simply expectations of what students are expected to know and at what age/level this mastery is expected to be achieved.
• Agree or disagree, you must be prepared to be trained by, to implement, and to be measured by its criterion.
• What does this means for ECE educators and why it is so important?
Standards
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Nearly 90% of the brain’s growth happens before age 5
Experience is the key to high-quality learning
Innovation begins in our learning environments
Both licensed center- and family childcare programs are preparing children for all of their life-stages
Developmentally appropriate practice
• Practice is manifest in curriculum development and its implementation.
Practice
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• It is better to think of assessments in terms of appraisals. Critical questions asked are purposed to measure the value of practice at achieving outcomes set by standards.
Assessment
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Let’s recap
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Standards are meant to give a clear guideline as to what students are expected
to know and when
These expectations influence the what and how higher
education programs prepare aspiring teachers
Practices in the classroom are based on achieving
outcomes measured by these expectations
Assessment is an appraisal the value of practices at
achieving these outcomes
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Game on!Activity
Standard: letter recognition
Practice: alphabet bingo
Assessment: replace plastic dots with DAP item (stickers, finger print, etc)
Use cards with pictures and text to enhance word recognition and vocabulary
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Critical questions a self-assessment must answer
Boosting quality through effective self-assessments
Part 2
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Critical questions effective self-assessments answer
• Does the instruction or practice achieve the expected outcome? Does it surpass it?
• Does the practice hinder or promote the student’s progression?
• Is the practice developmentally appropriate?
• Is this practice inclusive?
• Does it foster innovation and creativity in the students and the teacher?
• Is the entire concept a bust or can it be modified to achieve the respective goal?
• How is the instruction for this competency applicable in the real world?
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Part 3: The synergy of standards, practice, and self-assessment
Visual (spatial): You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.Social (interpersonal): You form relationships easily and make others feel comfortable around you.Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.Naturalistic (nature):You prefer a hands-on approach to learning
Post-webinar activity: Take the Learning Styles test
Let’s go!Directions
TEAM UP:TEAM A: Beginning 1/3 of the attendeesTEAM B: Middle 1/3TEAM C: Ending 1/3The teams have 1 minute to collaborate and decide how they will accomplish the following tasks:
VISIT:Websites provided in the QR Code, linked to the right, or found in a web search
COLLECT:One fact about the learning style you visited
SHARE: your discoveries on the whiteboard
Continue the conversation…
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Let’s talk.
Thank you all for joining us today. I encourage you to visit the following resources.
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Boosting Quality through effective self-assessment
Zero to three Prenatal to three core compentencies initiative http://www.zerotothree.org/wo/assets/docs/ztt_summit6pagebrochure_fnlreadonlynew.pdf
NAEYC Common Core Standards Initiative http://www.naeyc.org/topics/common-core
Common Core State standards initiative http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/frequently-asked-questions/
Why are standards so important? http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/556-why-are-standards-important.gs
Bomer, R., & Maloch, B. (2011). Relating policy to research and practice: The common core standards. Language Arts, 89(1), 38-43.http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/LA/0891-sep2011/LA0891Research.pdf
Main, L. F. (2012). Too much too soon? Common core math standards in the early years. Early Childhood Education Journal, 40(2), 73-77. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10643-011-0484-7#page-1
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