Assessment is key to monitoring progress of a child’s education and building confidence and eventually mastery of a certain skill. Traditional standardized testing has been and still continues to be the staple of assessing a student’s skill set and depth of learned knowledge. Even with technology and how it has added an element of convenience and speed in certain aspects, productive and quality technology application is not as commonly present in school systems in comparison to the level of influence technology has on the rest of society.
However, there is a way to productively use the advanced technology that our modern society has made widely accessible to in our classrooms - with assessment. Especially in an early childhood education classroom, there are a lot of developmental areas to consider and monitor progress within. Early childhood education focuses on not only the beginning foundations of academic skills (math, science, history, reading/writing), but also socio-emotional skills, and language/literacy skills, cognitive skills, etc. Teaching Strategies makes keeping track of all these developmental areas and each child’s progress in every aspect simple, organized, and easy to record.
There is both an app and website where you can synchronize data. Having both the app and website system allows teachers to be able to quickly document a moment of observation (by taking a photo, video, or typing in a note) and instantaneously recording the name of the child and the developmental area the observation pertains to.
The greatest thing about Teaching Strategies is that the expected skill to be “mastered” for a certain age is not just a linear progression. Teaching Strategies provides a spectrum of development of a certain skill and also gives examples of expected behavior for a certain point of progress.
From the app, these quick documentations can be “sent” to the website online database where teachers can add more detail and solidify the observation to then be sent to the families directly through Teaching Strategies.
However, there is a way to productively use the advanced technology that our modern society has made widely accessible to in our classrooms - with assessment. Especially in an early childhood education classroom, there are a lot of developmental areas to consider and monitor progress within. Early childhood education focuses on not only the beginning foundations of academic skills (math, science, history, reading/writing), but also socio-emotional skills, and language/literacy skills, cognitive skills, etc. Teaching Strategies makes keeping track of all these developmental areas and each child’s progress in every aspect simple, organized, and easy to record.
There is both an app and website where you can synchronize data. Having both the app and website system allows teachers to be able to quickly document a moment of observation (by taking a photo, video, or typing in a note) and instantaneously recording the name of the child and the developmental area the observation pertains to.
The greatest thing about Teaching Strategies is that the expected skill to be “mastered” for a certain age is not just a linear progression. Teaching Strategies provides a spectrum of development of a certain skill and also gives examples of expected behavior for a certain point of progress.
From the app, these quick documentations can be “sent” to the website online database where teachers can add more detail and solidify the observation to then be sent to the families directly through Teaching Strategies.
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