For this assignment, create a PowerPoint Presentation to create your assessment plan. Your strengths-based and family-centered assessment plan must include the following sections:
Introduction:
Introduction:
- Describe your center or school’s philosophy of assessment. Your philosophy must be supported by scholarly or credible sources.
Goals, Benefits, and Uses of Assessment:
- Explain the purpose of assessment.
- Discuss the assessment cycle.
- Describe the principles of assessment that will guide the use of assessment in your center.
Types of Assessments: For each of the types of assessment listed below, you will need to define the assessment, provide a rationale for using this type of assessment, share an example, and explain at least one way you use the information from this assessment to inform your instruction.
- Observations.
- Checklists, rating scales, rubrics.
- Teacher-designed assessments.
- Performance-based assessments.
- Standardized assessments.
- Portfolios.
Using Assessments to Inform Instruction:
- Analyze how the assessments you are using meet ethical standards
- Examine how you use these assessments to make decisions; include specific examples
- Discuss how you will use assessments to help ensure students are meeting their goals on their IEPs and/or IFSPs.
Assessment Partnerships with Families:
- Explain how your school will develop an assessment partnership with families. Include specific strategies for involving families and communities in their children’s learning and development.
- Discuss, using specific examples, how you will use parent conferences to communicate about assessments.
- Explain how diverse families and community characteristics will be taken into consideration when communicating about assessments.
- Share at least two professional organizations or assessment-based resources you can provide families with to help them better understand the use of assessments.