Measures utilized include the Adult Retrospective Pre - and Posttest, the Parent
Observations of Child Activities (POCA) scale, the Parenting Scale, Family Strengths and Resilience Assessment, the Gresham and Elliot Social Skills Scale, and the Family Environment Scales (FES).
Not exact matches
I also add my
observations of how these
activities can help
children learn, grow, and become more creative, enthusiastic little people!
«We went from a slow, average depiction
of brain
activity in a cognitive challenge to a quick test that is significantly easier for
children to do than spend hours under
observation,» Montague said.
The new test - free approach looks into the
children's
observations, interactions and
activities and uses this knowledge to make a series
of judgements about each
child based on a clear set
of assessment criteria.
The word puvidham loosely translates from Tamil as «love for the earth,» and
children learn much
of their academics through organic farming, including math (establishing planting patterns), biology (studying the relationships between plant growth and environmental factors), economics (determining the price
of a farm product), and language skills (writing about their
activities and
observations).
Observations of child - care settings and pre-K, kindergarten, and 1st - grade classrooms show that some
children spend most
of their time engaged in productive instructional
activities with caring and responsive adults who consistently provide feedback, challenges to think, and social supports.
Primary school governor and mother
of two young
children, many
of the
activities and resources are based on
observations of her own
children at play.
From the
observations, we searched for comments about
children's engagement, which for us embraced both compliance (on - task behavior, in which
children are productively engaged in their assigned
activity) and involvement (evidence
of genuine student enthusiasm for the
activities).
These
activities should draw upon
observations and assessments to plan for progression and to identify
children who need additional support, for example to discriminate and produce the sounds
of speech.
At the end
of the
observation, the observer wrote a summary addressing seven key features
of the classroom ecology: (a) the general instructional approach used in the classroom, instructional sequences observed, approaches to word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction; (b) curriculum materials used; (c) teacher's style
of interacting with the
children; (d) teacher's grouping practices, and
activities of children not with the teacher; (e) student engagement; (f) classroom management; and (g) classroom climate.
Indirectly, to prepare the
child for later work in Mathematics, through the
observation of, and manipulative discrimination between, regularly varied shapes...» - David Gettman, «Geometric Cabinet,» in Basic Montessori Learning
Activities for Under - Fives
The Early Childhood Educator (ECE) plans
activities based on
observations of the
children's interests and skills supported by «How Does Learning Happen?
Assessment
activities include evaluation
of information from parents, developmental monitoring (including screening for developmental problems), psychosocial assessment, parent -
child observation, and assessments
of child behavior.
A
child's learning experiences in a culture without an official education system are shaped through their participation with or
observation of adults engaging in culturally relevant
activities (e.g., girls learning how to weave from their mothers in the traditional Mayan peasant culture).
The major data sources for the research include data on families» characteristics when they enter the study, follow - up surveys and direct assessment
of outcomes for couples and their
children, program records documenting couples» participation in program
activities,
observation of program
activities, and interviews with program staff.
We have created this companion resource to The Creative Curriculum ® that provides home visitors with strategies for using the Daily Resources to help families
of children from birth through kindergarten better understand
child development, use
observation to learn about their
child, and respond to and support their
child's learning during everyday
activities at home.
Set up
activities, with input from the family, and choose a comfortable spot for commencing the 10 - minute
observation of the parent interacting with their
child.
Third, new measures must separate the processes
of monitoring (surveillance, direct
observation, and youth disclosure) from the outcome
of monitoring (knowledge
of youth
activities), in order to identify those mechanisms by which parents may best monitor their
child.