Assessment

As I come from an early childhood background, it was a challenge for me to understand the different methods of assessment and how to do it. By getting support from my colleagues and asking lots of questions and reading different assessment method helped me to understand the concept behind it and how to do it. I can handle the narrative assessment because I am already familiarized with it but other assessments I am working on it.


Narrative Assessment

This term, we focussed on collaborative working, meeting, playing and eating. We discussed during our meeting time, how it looks like. The learner’s had great ideas about it. They wanted to share, take turns, include everyone, peaceful problem solving, use gentle hands and legs, use kind words to others,  if we don’t have kind words keep to ourselves.

We worked hard to put these ideas into practice. We had to share the iPad, we work in one big paper and accommodate all the learners around the paper, helping new learners and supporting Emily Jiang in our habitat. We assess our learning during our meeting time, whether we were able to practice and what were the difficulties we faced. I recorded their learnings through narrative assessment.

Emily J was refused join in our group in the beginning, but now she is happy to join in and work along with other learners.

iDesign

We were working together during Experience as we had a small group in the beginning of the year. Later, we decided to split the group into two and provide two different experiences for the learners to opt in and opt out. During iDesign, we (LCs) discussed the needs of the learners, we observed what they were really interested, we discussed with the learners to find out their interest and planned suitable activities for them. We gave them two choices and encouraged the learners to choose one of the activity.

The learners prepared a balanced diet for their dinner. They looked at each other's plate and gave feedback to others learners as well. If one of the learners did not have fruits on their plate, they encouraged them to put fruits or vegetables and so on.

We made healthy bites. The learners were encouraged to healthy food

The learners prepared healthy sandwich and they ate it. They thought it was yummy and they wanted to try at home. They decided to bring some healthy sandwiches to school.

They were tasting their sandwich.

Assessment
We did the 5.1 literacy assessment in week 4 to see where they are at when they started school. We did the McCarthy Kirk to check their oral language and in week 7 PM benchmark to assess their reading level. We did the JAM test to find out the understanding of numeracy. All the results were entered into etap and google doc.