Assessment and Planning for Early Childhood Education

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the theoretical and ethical issues and Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) as they relate to assessment.
• Demonstrate understanding of the various forms and purposes of assessment.
• Demonstrate an overall understanding of formal and informal assessment tools and key terms.
• Use a variety of informal assessment tools to assess and document a child’s strengths, needs, and interests.
• Demonstrate an understanding of purposes and importance of observation as a foundation for assessment.
• Connect observations/assessment to the NC standards and knowledge of child development.
• Demonstrate the ability to gather assessment information from multiple sources (families, teachers, observations in a variety of places, etc.)
• Discuss how to include a child’s unique strengths and needs in authentic, developmentally appropriate, culturally and linguistically responsive, multidimensional assessment methods.
• Demonstrate the ability to develop and plan individual and developmentally appropriate Learning Experiences (LEs) based on assessment information.
• Demonstrate the ability to connect LEs to the NC standards, assets, and strengths/needs of the children observed.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to identify children who need additional services through the special education assessment process (e.g., understand the screening, assessment, and individual intervention planning process).
• Demonstrate foundational knowledge of IEP/IFSP development and implementation and recognize how goals and objectives are embedded into curriculum activities.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
Bio ARC/Studio video	5 points
Quizzes (#1, #2, and #4)	30 points
Quiz NC Standards (#3)	15 points
Observation Assignment & Reflection	25 points
Learning Experience Plan (Parts 1, 2, & 3)	50 points
IFSP/IEP (Goal Quiz- 5 points, Completed 30)	35 points
Attendance and Participation	30 points

Attendance/Participation:

Attendance and Participation are graded components totaling 30 points (2 points per week).

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8, Fourth Edition (Fully Revised and Updated)