The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) provides guidance and policy for the field of Early Learning. During Week 3 we studied their Code of Ethics and the Assessment Position Statement.
This week we’ll focus on NAECY’s newly released Developmentally Appropriate Practice information. Please click on this link and look at the posted information: Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) | NAEYC
Click on this link to examine The 6 DAP Guidelines. Notice that #3 references observation and assessment.
The Guidelines direct you to the national ECE Standards and Competencies document. This document guides teacher preparation skills and expectations for all ECE educators. College and teacher prep programs use these standards when designing ECE courses.
Look at Standard 3. It is tied to Child Observation, Documentation, and Assessment.
Scroll to page 18 of the document. Examine these 4 skills and think about what you have learned in this course.
Write a paper describing what you now know and have experienced regarding these competencies in observation and assessment. Divide your paper into the 4 skills and label them 3a, 3b, 3c, 3d. Write a short paragraph for each skill, discussing what you learned in this course that is tied to these practices. Give examples.
This paper is meant to summarize key learnings from this course that are tied to the NAEYC Standards and Competencies for Early Childhood Educators and DAP.
