Case Study Scenario Week 7

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CHS450 – Observation, Assessment & Individualization

Unit 7 Assignment: Strategy for Technology Use in Documenting Dramatic Play Due Date: 11:59 pm EST Sunday of Unit 4 Points: 100 Overview: You will develop a technology strategy for documenting dramatic play and evaluate your strategy. This will be done in the form of a two-page paper. Instructions: Begin by reading this scenario: Scenario: You are a new teacher in a pre-K classroom. Your center has six new digital cameras and two new iPads, and each classroom has just been given a website. You decide to explore new technology tools to observe and document students in your class during dramatic play. You sit down to create an observation strategy, considering what technology is best suited to observing dramatic play. (2022 Cengage Learning) In writing your paper, include complete responses to the following three prompts:

1. Describe a dramatic-play activity and two types of assessments, their purposes, and

their associated methods and tools. Tell which assessment tool you would use for the activity and why. (NAEYC Standard 3b)

2. Describe the professional communication skills, including technology-mediated strategies, you would use to effectively support young children’s learning and development and to work with families and colleagues. (NAEYC Standard 6c)

3. Describe how you would use the knowledge gained from the assessment of the dramatic play activity to make evidence-based decisions that support each child. (NAEYC Standard 1d)

Requirements:

• Address all aspects of the eight items above. • Write two pages double-spaced with 1-inch margins (about 500 words). • Include a cover and reference pages. • Use 12 pt: Times New Roman or similar font. • Use APA formatting. • Submit the paper as an MS Word document using the assignment link in Unit 4.

Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again after you write.

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Evaluation Rubric for Unit 4 Assignment

CRITERIA

Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement

32 points 25 – 31 points 10 – 24 points 0 – 9 points Prompt 1 Standard 3b: Know a wide range of types of assessments, their purposes, and their associated methods and tools.

Insightful response describes a dramatic- play activity and two types of assessments, their purposes, associated methods, and tools, and which would be best for the activity and why.

Competent response describes a dramatic- play activity, two types of assessments, their purposes, associated methods, and tools, and which would be best for the activity and why.

Marginally satisfactory in one or more of the following ways. It may respond to the item illogically, need more coherent structure or elaboration, or reflect an incomplete understanding.

The response shows serious weaknesses, ordinarily of several kinds. It may present a simplistic, inappropriate, or incoherent analysis of or response to the prompt, suggesting some significant misunderstanding of the topic.

Prompt 2 Standard 6c: Use professional communication skills, including technology- mediated strategies, to effectively support young children’s learning and development and to work with families and colleagues.

Insightful development and mature style describe how to develop professional communication skills, including technology- mediated strategies, to effectively support young children’s learning and development and to work with families and colleagues.

Competent response and thoughtful analysis describe how to develop professional communication skills, including technology- mediated strategies, to effectively support young children’s learning and development and to work with families and colleagues.

Marginally satisfactory in one or more of the following ways. It may respond to the item illogically, need more coherent structure or elaboration, or reflect an incomplete understanding.

The response shows serious weaknesses, ordinarily of several kinds. It may present a simplistic, inappropriate, or incoherent analysis of or response to the prompt, suggesting some significant misunderstanding of the topic.

Prompt 3 Standard 1d: Use this multidimensional knowledge – that is knowledge about the developmental period of early childhood, about individual children and about development and learning in cultural contexts to make evidence-based decisions that support each child.

Insightful development and a mature style provide examples of how development and learning in cultural contexts were used to make evidence-based decisions that support each child.

The competent and thoughtful analysis provides examples of how development and learning in cultural contexts were used to make evidence-based decisions that support each child.

Marginally satisfactory in one or more of the following ways. It may respond to the item illogically, need more coherent structure or elaboration, or reflect an incomplete understanding.

The response shows serious weaknesses, ordinarily of several kinds. It may present a simplistic, inappropriate, or incoherent analysis of or response to the prompt, suggesting some significant misunderstanding of the topic.

SS3. Candidates have effective skills in written and verbal communication.

4 points The writing is error-free and APA-compliant.

1 points Few errors that do not impede presentation.

2 points There are numerous. errors, however, they do not impede presentation.

0 points Errors impede professional presentation.