Describe The Importance Of Assessing Children

The reason why we assess children is to find out how well your kids are learning. To see if they are making progress and to find out if they are reaching the proficiency benchmarks and to ascertain if the children are being taught effectively. The data we receive when we do assessments to give us information helping us to plan whole- group and individual instruction to see the program quality and communicating with others. The importance of the assessment is that it shows progress in growth. It has anecdotal notes and it includes observations that will enhance your curriculum development. It is an observation and evaluation of children’s learning styles and is the key to assess their learning and growth. It helps teachers share useful information …show more content…
The professional organizations expect the teachers to be able to be competent and be able to meet and address the seven steps in the assessment process. We are to report procedures and results to the policy makers, administrators, Parents, and the general public. We are responsible for the achievement of our kids. Administrators use assessment results as evidence when making personal or instructional decisions. (Assessing and Guiding Young Children’s Development and Learning). The other professionals want teachers to be able to have sufficient documentation to contribute to them that assess a child. They need to be able to understand terms used that others may use. The assessment provided should help teachers that get this child to know the child’s strength and weaknesses. They make sure every child meets the standards k-12 and it is called the common Core Learning Standards, which is a mandated testing in language arts and mathematics. Depending on the outcomes of the testing the child will be either held back in the same grade or referred to summer school. Assessments that give a good picture of children from diverse backgrounds on what the children know and what they can do is essential. Children are expected to learn in K- 12, and early childhood has child outcomes for the children. The policy makers focus on academic accomplishments that facilitate them to be school ready and to be successful in school. They all want the children to be learning and to be school …show more content…
We want to determine the child’s cultural values which will help the teacher to become attentive to the child and the families with cultural differences. Children may look off in other ways instead of straight into someone’s eyes. They may not say yes mam or no sir, and some from a different culture may look up and some may look down. Kids that look up we may think they are trying harder, but if we do not know the culture of that child we may be interpreting them wrong. Different cultures may develop a child’s fine motor skills to where they are advancing in it, whereas others may concentrate on the large motor which is physical development. An example in cultural differences is my husband is from Algeria and children there talk really loud and here I learn to talk softly and calmly. This is his culture; it looks like they are always mad because it sounds like they are yelling at people. Children from other cultures, their interactions are different because they are taught when to talk and when not to and the language they are supposed to use. Children from ethical, cultural have to make a lot of difficult adjustments. We need to be sensitive to the families because it is hard on the children because they come from different cultural backgrounds. They have different values, different ways, and different morals. We need to be sensitive to all their needs and to find out from the families what their background is. If we are not sensitive the child will not learn or