Assessment

 

  • Assessment is an essential and integral component of an Early Childhood Care and Education program to ensure that the program remains child centric and the experiences and activities are planned according to the level of the child. It gives an insight into children’s interests, achievements and possible difficulties in their learning through which next steps in learning and teaching can be planned and thereby provide a platform to support the planning of a coherent curriculum for progression in learning.

    In order to ensure that the program is responsive to the development needs of the child, it is essential to maintain their developmental and learning profile.

  • The purpose of assessment is to give useful information about children’s learning and development to the adults planning the program as also to children and their families. It also helps ensure early identification of developmental delays, special educational needs and particular abilities. Assessment contributes to evaluation, revision and development of programs.

        Whole child assessment:

                     – The child’s interest and participation

                     – Skills and abilities

                     – Social interactions

  • We will follow an assessment pattern of the children which will be formative, continuous and flow from the experiences planned in the curriculum. Formative continuous assessment implies documenting the development of the child by interpreting the evidence from the day to day experiences of the child with the purpose of recognizing and encouraging strengths and address learning/developmental gaps.
  • Our teachers will evaluate each child’s progress on an ongoing basis, through observations of their behavior their artwork and other products. Home­ based observations may also be conducted. The current level of performance will be recognized and rewarded to reinforce small steps of accomplishments towards the long term goals.
  • We will maintain Portfolio for individual children. It will contain photographs of children showing learning achievements, anecdotal records, developmental checklists, artworks, samples of drawing, writing and other activities, observation notes and parent teacher meeting notes.