DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE ASSESSMENT PRACTICES Criteria: Write a 2-3 sentence position statement (format for position statement below) for each of the five areas of the NAEYC developmentally appropriate approaches stated in the Instructor Guidance (initial post)-samples highlighted in green below *Five areas of the NAEYC Developmentally Appropriate Approaches: 1. Creating a community of learners What you may want to include: · Each member of the community are valued · Relationships are important · Each member of the community respects and is accountable to others · Practitioners design and maintain physical environment to protect the health and safety of the learning community members, specifically in support of children’s physiological needs · Practitioners ensure members of the community feel psychologically safe 2. Teaching to enhance learning and development What you may want to include: · Responsible for fostering the learning community through their teaching · Know each child and the most significant people in their life · Responsible to know the curriculum goals · Plan for learning experiences to attain goals across the domains and disciplines · Plan daily activities to promote learning and development · Possess skills and strategies they are able to draw on · Know how and when to scaffold children’s learning · Know how and when to use the various learning formats · Provide extended learning experiences · Make experiences in classrooms responsive to ALL children and their needs 3. Planning curriculum to achieve important goals What you may want to include: · Desired goal that are important in children’s learning and development have been identified and clearly articulated · The program has a comprehensive, effective curriculum that targets identified goals · Teachers use the curriculum framework in planning to ensure there is attention to important learning goals · Teachers make meaningful connections in the learning experiences · Teachers collaborate with those teaching in preceding grades and share information · Practitioners plan curriculum for infant and toddlers 4. Assessing children’s learning and development What you may want to include: · Ongoing, strategic and purposeful · Focus on children’s progress towards goals that are developmentally and educationally significant · System in place to collect and make sense of assessment information (formative assessment) · Methods are appropriate to the development status and experiences of young children · Look at what children can do independently and with the assistance of others · Input from families and children’s own evaluations of work · Tailored to a specific purpose · Decisions have a major impact on children (enrollment, placement, etc.) · Appropriate follow-up to screenings that identify special needs 5. Establishing reciprocal relationships with families What you may want to include: · Mutual respect, cooperation, shared responsibility a.

1. DISCUSSION: DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE
ASSESSMENT PRACTICES
Criteria:
Write a 2-3 sentence position statement (format for position
statement below) for each of the five areas of the NAEYC
developmentally appropriate approaches stated in the Instructor
Guidance (initial post)-samples highlighted in green below
*Five areas of the NAEYC Developmentally
Appropriate Approaches:
1. Creating a community of learners
What you may want to include:
· Each member of the community are valued
· Relationships are important
· Each member of the community respects and is accountable to
others
· Practitioners design and maintain physical environment to
protect the health and safety of the learning community
members, specifically in support of children’s physiological
needs
· Practitioners ensure members of the community feel
psychologically safe
2. Teaching to enhance learning and development
What you may want to include:
· Responsible for fostering the learning community through
their teaching
· Know each child and the most significant people in their life
· Responsible to know the curriculum goals
· Plan for learning experiences to attain goals across the
domains and disciplines
· Plan daily activities to promote learning and development
· Possess skills and strategies they are able to draw on
· Know how and when to scaffold children’s learning
· Know how and when to use the various learning formats
· Provide extended learning experiences

2. · Make experiences in classrooms responsive to ALL children
and their needs
3. Planning curriculum to achieve important goals
What you may want to include:
· Desired goal that are important in children’s learning and
development have been identified and clearly articulated
· The program has a comprehensive, effective curriculum that
targets identified goals
· Teachers use the curriculum framework in planning to ensure
there is attention to important learning goals
· Teachers make meaningful connections in the learning
experiences
· Teachers collaborate with those teaching in preceding grades
and share information
· Practitioners plan curriculum for infant and toddlers
4. Assessing children’s learning and development
What you may want to include:
· Ongoing, strategic and purposeful
· Focus on children’s progress towards goals that are
developmentally and educationally significant
· System in place to collect and make sense of assessment
information (formative assessment)
· Methods are appropriate to the development status and
experiences of young children
· Look at what children can do independently and with the
assistance of others
· Input from families and children’s own evaluations of work
· Tailored to a specific purpose
· Decisions have a major impact on children (enrollment,
placement, etc.)
· Appropriate follow-up to screenings that identify special
needs
5. Establishing reciprocal relationships with families
What you may want to include:
· Mutual respect, cooperation, shared responsibility and
negotiation of conflicts toward achieving shared goals

3. · Practitioners work in collaborative partnerships with families
· Family members are welcome in classroom
· Teachers acknowledge a family’s choice and goals for child
· Teachers and families share knowledge of child to understand
child’s development and learning
· Practitioners involve families as a source of information about
child
· Program links families with a range of services
NAEYC Format for Position Statements
1. State topic
2. Pick a side
3. Provide evidence that supports your side (research, opinion)
using at least 3 supporting pieces.
4. If problem, provide an alternative solution and why you
believe it could work.
Sample Position Statement for ONE area (Created by
Instructor): According to the NAEYC (2009), developmentally
appropriate practices to assessment include creating a
community of learners. I agree with this area of focus:
· Each member of the community are valued (school personnel,
students, families, and the community)
· Teachers must establish a classroom environment that is safe
for learners (including physical and psychological safety)
Because I support ideas stated for creating a community of
learners, I will create a classroom management system to ensure
community members are valued and a classroom environment is
structured that promotes physical/psychological safety.
(Jaruszewicz, 2013 and ASCD, 2015)
Sample Position Statement from ONE area (From Instructor
Guide): The school administration wants to implement a school
uniform policy because so many students are dressing
inappropriately for class. I am against the school implementing
such a policy.
· School uniforms will take away student rights.

4. · School uniforms are expensive.
· One hundred kids were surveyed and 85% were against
uniforms.
I understand the issue that high school kids are wearing
inappropriate clothes to school. However, instead of
implementing a formal uniform, a less drastic suggestion should
be considered first. One solution could be to make the current
dress code stricter.
Create an audio file using Vacaroo by reading each of your
position statements (link or attach your Vocaroo).
*If you can’t create an audio file, please notify me before
Day 3 of Week 3!!!!!!!
DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE AUDIO, I WILL RECORD
WHAT YOU WRITE AND SEND IT IN
PLEASE READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY, ONCE YOU
DONE MY TEACHER MIGHY SEND ME A QUESTION
ABOUT YOUR DISCUSSION (NOT A GOOD THING), BUT IF
SHE DOES PLEASE BE READY TO ANSWER IT. SHE
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