Monday, June 13, 2016
Assessing Children with Special Needs
Teachers needs to be extra mindful of assessing and tracking development and progress of children with special needs. Find some ways to a teacher can keep track of a child's progress in at least one developmental area. Be sure to include a web link to the information.
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Assessing students with learning disabilities can be challenging. Some students such as those with ADHD and autism, struggle with testing situation and can't remain at task long enough so most of the time they won't finish their work. Some ways that teachers can keep track on a child's progress is by observation and performance task. For example, teacher can give the student a task that he or she is interest and observe the child while they are performing their own task. Other ways to keep track are self-assessment and use samples of student work.
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ReplyDeleteA teacher can keep track of progress of a child with special needs in any developmental area by obtaining a record of the child "in action" is a very enjoyable and concrete way to show each child’s development over time. The teacher can record various samples of each child’s work and progress, and specific portions can be viewed or listened to during conferences. Video can be used to show a child in the "process of creating" or in virtually any activity. Audiotapes can be used to record sample conversations, such as Show and tell sharing; conversations at snack or meal times; and reciting poems, action rhymes, or songs.
http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com/earlychildhood/article_view.aspx?ArticleID=495
As an early childhood educator keeping tracks of children with special needs records is very important in the developmental process. For the program to be effective the teacher needs.
ReplyDeletea. observation that is highly and very accurate, detailed information on the children strengths and weaknesses. B. have a system and non systematic data on behaviors, characteristics, and interactions that are significant c. he or she should use standardize rating scales to measure independence skills, progress, lack of progress, and performance in a very professional manner d. a teacher can use record review, cumulative review and anecdotal records to keep track of every aspects of the child or children.
https://www.verywell.com/how-teachers-measure-progress-in-special-ed-programs-2162700
As a parent educator a way to keep track of children's progress to me is by documenting all the activities and interactions the child does with other children or by himself/herself. At the end of the day go over the observation and go from there to focus on the child's abilities and strengths and work with that. Showing their accountability and their development progress.
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Regarding assessing children with special needs educators need to be extra mindful of assessing and tracking the development and progress of children with exceptional needs.Some core considerations are:
ReplyDelete*Teachers need to make short and long term goal based on identified goal for the child's learning and development, goals that are intentional,challenging, and achievable.
*Using what is known about the child's development and learning, to create and provide strategies that promote children's learning with the materials, interactions, and activities.
*Using the Knowledge of what the child as an individual has to adapt be responsive and offer variation.
*Use what is known about the whole child, and what shapes them to provide meaningful and relevant experiences
It all begins with tracking children in their developmental struggles and achievements through observation and assessments.
" The purpose of a comprehensive assessment and evaluation is to accurately identify a students patterns of strengths and needs"
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Early childhood educators need to assess and track development and progress of children with special needs. Teachers can keep track of a child's progress in at least one developmental area by taking pictures, collecting samples, ongoing observations, check lists, and goal setting. Teachers need to individualize in an developmentally appropriate way opportunities in the environment for children with special needs to experience, grow, and learn.
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Assessing children with special needs sometimes can be challenging, depending on their disability there are children that cannot sit still to perform an evaluation. I think the best way to assess these children is through play, through observations, and through samples of their work. Keeping track of all these on an specific domain will be very helpful, without forgetting the milestones checklist, and journals, which are very helpful as well as pictures. I found two interesting websites that provide a lot of information about the assessments http://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/what-is-special-education/the-importance-of-the-assessment-process/ and another interesting website is the National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET) http://www.naset.org/search.0.html?tx_solr%5Bq%5D=assessing+tools&id=72&L=0
ReplyDeleteWhich has a lot of resources and information for teachers including assessments tools.
Hello ,
ReplyDeleteI must say I haven't worked with children with special needs. This would be a good time to get some tools to assist children. I think DRDP would be a good tool for assessing children with special needs. The 2015 has 52 measures and 4 develop domains earlier, middle, later then integrating earlier, middle, and later. I believe the new tool will help find children's needs early. The DRDP 2015 has great examples to find where the child is at. You can also look back on the child's work to see if they are still behind or average.
http://www.drdpk.org/docs/DRDP2015K_Final_12032015.pdf
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