Assessment and Planning to Address Children's Learning Needs

Audience

Instructional personnel, administrators

Length

2 days (6 hours/day)

Prerequisites

Getting Started

Materials

Core Knowledge Preschool Assessment Tool (CK-PAT)

Objectives

Upon completion of the Assessment & Planning training, participants will be able to:

• identify different purposes of assessment;
• identify characteristics of effective assessment for instructional planning purposes;
• describe the assessment-instruction cycle;
• demonstrate the use of effective direct observation skills in completing anecdotal records;
• describe and develop the following types of assessment tools for selected objectives from the Preschool Sequence: focus questions, checklists, webs, participation charts, activity probes, portfolio collection; and
• use the Core Knowledge Preschool Assessment Tool (CK-PAT) to gather data, generate various reports, and plan for individual students.

Summary

This unit introduces participants to relevant research and theory, introduces and instructs the participant in the CK-PAT, and demonstrates effective assessment tools. 60% of course time is devoted to whole group presentation, and 40% to small group interaction.

Registration:

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For addtional details, please contact the Professional Development Coordinator via email, professionaldevelopment@coreknowledge.org, or by calling (434) 220-3352.