Kei Tua o Te Pai Early Childhood Assessment Exemplars

This is an essay about assessing childrens learning through play, Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for learning: Early Childhood Exemplars, learning stories and how beneficial Kei Tua o te Pae and learning stories are to early childhood teachers. Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for learning: Early Childhood Exemplars are extremely useful to any early childhood teacher at any level, from the student teacher, to the early childhood teacher with decades of experience as there are many different examples of assessing a child. Kei Tua o te Pae exemplar booklets are useful for a teacher to go back and study often so they can reinforce the different types of ways to assess a child. Kei Tua o te Pae/Assessment for learning: Early Childhood Exemplars†¦show more content†¦Child Ss determination is evident as she keeps digging in a hole that is now bigger than herself (See Appendix). Learning dispositions are included in the assessment because dispositions are considered as important learning outcomes, and instead of being taught, dispositions are encouraged (Ministry of Education. (1996). p44). The assessing teacher then needs to link those dispositions with the different strands of Te WhÄ riki. In child Ss learning story, the disposition of perseverance can be linked to the strand of Exploration/Mana AotÃ… «roa, because she chose the difficult task to stay and dig for treasure, whereas her friends left because it was taking too long to find the treasure (See Appendix). The next step section of the learning story is also known as the responding part of a learning story. The responding part a learning story is to make suggestions and plans to encourage the growth of these dispositions within the child the next step is to channel this determination in other areas of child Ss learning and encourage this perseverance (See Appendix). Often finished learning stories are placed into the childs portfolio so the parents, whÄ nau and the child can read about the progress being made, and the suggestions that the teacher has made for the childs learning progression, The portfolios or folders in which they are housed invite families to contribute their own stories and comments (Podmore, Valerie N. (2006).