~During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.~ Jean Piaget 



 




A special thanks to all classmates that have posted comments of encouraging words on my blogs. A special thanks to Dr. Cara Wicks-Ortega for providing feedback to improve my thinking on child development.


Assessments and Learning

Assessing all children’s educational progress is great if we are assessing what the students have learned and how we can help them to go above and beyond their learning ability.  The only problem with the standardize test that are given to our children is that our teachers will only teach what is on that standardize test just to make sure the students get a higher score.  Our education system uses these tests as a basis of accountability for teachers and students.  Early childhood students are assessed by using the creative curriculum program which assessing each student in social, emotional, cognitive, and physical domains.  The creative curriculum program is an assessment that shows where a child is lacking in developments and is used as a key to early intervention for each student. Not only does this help teacher provide early intervention it allows the teacher to also help a child go above and beyond their learning ability.  As an early childhood professional we all have learned that all developmental domains overlap each other which focuses on the whole child.  But as children get older the assessments that are done on younger children are not the same for the older children.  Some test out their will show what a student had learned but does it really show how a child is learning.  Test like SAT/ACT shows academic intelligence for student who want to go to college but the problem with this test is the stress level of the students.  Without a 21 or higher most students will not make it into a college of their choice, which put stress on a student.

After reading this news broadcast I was shocked to find out that, “the U.S. scored 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math, slightly higher than the last time the tests were given. The really stunning news comes from China, and the province of Shanghai, where students scored better than anyone else in the world after taking the test for the first time.”  I continued to read this news broadcast and found out that the students and teachers all have a high standard in education.  These teachers went above and beyond of what the students needed to learn and what else can they learn by having the students go outside of their box.  I was shocked that China and the province of Shanghai had never taken standardize test that our children take every year in school and scored the highest.  That should show our education system that they need to stop looking at just reading, science, and math in order to see basic progress of our children.  We as teachers need to stop teaching what the students needs to know for the end of the year testing and challenge these students to go outside of their box. 

Resource:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40544897/ns/us_news-life/t/wake-up-call-us-students-trail-global-leaders/