Kei Tua o te Pae
Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for Learning: Early Childhood Exemplars is a best-practice guide that will help teachers continue to improve the quality of their teaching.
The exemplars are a series of books that will help teachers to understand and strengthen children's learning. It also shows how children, parents and whānau can contribute to this assessment and ongoing learning.
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Reflective questions – He pātai hei whakaaro iho
- Looking at a sample of our assessments and their accompanying suggestions for What next?, what assumptions do we make about continuity and children’s learning pathways?
- Are our long-term aspirations for the children apparent in our assessments?
- How have we accessed families’ aspirations for their children?
- How do our assessment practices make progress visible to the teachers, children, families, and whānau?
- Do our assessments contribute to continuity in the children’s ability to participate competently and confidently in both the Māori world and the Pākehā world?
- How do our assessments document continuity in the children’s developing competence?
- In what ways do we use our assessment documentation to enhance further learning?
- To what extent do the teachers in our early childhood setting make responses and suggestions based on earlier documented assessments?
- What strategies can we use to encourage the children to revisit their documented learning experiences?
- In what way have families contributed to the construction of the learning continuity? How is this possible for families from diverse backgrounds?