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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Introduction – He kupu whakatakiThe principles in Te Whāriki reflect a sociocultural approach to learning (see Te Whāriki, page 19). This approach is informed by Urie Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological-contextual model, which provides a framework for understanding the contexts in which humans develop. It is an approach that emphasises the importance of relationships and whanaungatanga.
Quality in Action: Te Mahi Whai Hua (pages 37–40) includes ideas about assessment practice that are consistent…
Introduction - He kupu whakatakiTe Tiriti o Waitangi is one of the guiding documents for education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It guarantees partnership, protection, and participation to the two signatories. Quality in Action/Te Mahi Whai Hua (1996, page 67) states that management and educators should implement policies, objectives, and practices that “reflect the unique place of Māori as tangata whenua and the principle of partnership inherent in Te Tiriti o Waitangi”.
This book, the third in a s…
In its introduction on page 2, Book 3 states:
"Te Whāriki is a bicultural curriculum that incorporates Māori concepts. The principles of whakamana (empowerment), kotahitanga (holistic development), whānau tangata (family and community), ngā hononga (relationships), and the different areas of mana that shape the five strands provide a bicultural framework to underpin bicultural assessment."
That book sets out a number of principles for authentic bicultural assessment, and books 11–15…
… What’s happening here?
This is part of a wall display about growing potatoes at an early childhood centre.
What aspects of competence does this assessment exemplify?
Being part of the collective of potato growers is a valued role at this centre. As the introduction makes clear, growing crops is a “significant economic event that involves everyone” in the wider community.
How might this documented assessment contribute to developing competence?
The wall display, viewed by families and whānau,…
… individually – The children have worked individually, in pairs and in groups to dance, to make resources and to watch the show.
Watching and re-creating the steps.
Working with others.
What’s happening here?
This is an example of an experience, the introduction of a video, making a significant difference to the depth of children’s learning about dance and drama as well as about music and participation. The children develop an interest in cats, and the teachers decide to show the children the…
… teacher, and his mother are all heard in this assessment.
Kian's learning story demonstrates that the same form of narrative assessment used in mainstream centres can be used effectively with the children across all early childhood settings. In the introduction to this book, a parent is quoted as saying:
“They [the learning stories] seemed to bring out the actual enjoyment and the relationships that they [the rest of the team] have with Joe and that made me feel good. It is a compliment…
… enjoying this experience and persevering with it.
How does this assessment exemplify developing competence in the arts?
At this stage, Jack is primarily interested in playing with the medium and finding out what he can do with it. He is having his first introduction to paint and to a paintbrush. He uses his hands to provide a more effective way of really getting to know this medium.
