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Hi everyone!

Tonight is our weekly chat at 9PM EST. Our topic is:

Authentic Assessment

Assessment is a tool to help us, as early educators, determine student mastery of concepts, skills and development.

There are many ways to assess the children in our care and in our classrooms: Observations, development of portfolios, discussions, etc.

Assessments can help us understand where each child is in their learning or development in a certain area. They (assessments) can be our biggest curriculum planning tool!

HOW we assess differs based on the program, district or curriculum used.

How we USE assessments also differ.

This could be a 2 week topic!

So, how do you assess your students'/children's learning? How can we make the assessments more authentic and therefore somewhat seemless to the children but informative and helpful to educators?

As Meeeha (jeanne) has so wonderfully stated: "These Tuesday e...See More
schari This sounds like a great chat Cheryl!

I don't think I can make it, but I would if I could.

I like having subjects to chat about.

Thanks for your work to make it happen.

On 2/22/11, Cheryl/NH wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Tonight is our weekly chat at 9PM EST. Our topic is: > > Authentic Assessment >...See More
Feb 22, 2011
Cheryl/NH We'll miss you scari...maybe another week.

jeanne (meeeha/hi) has been quite the great organizer of all this! I'm just following her lead!

On 2/22/11, schari wrote: > This sounds like a great chat Cheryl! > > I don't think I can make it, but I would if I could. > > I like having subjects to chat about. > > Th...See More
Feb 22, 2011


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