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Colleagues, you have a wealth of learning resources for weeks 3 and 4! Please become familiar with each of them, including the required media. Use the resources that appear in Module 2 to support your initial post and dialogue with colleagues in your responses. Please look at the rubric for the various tasks you will be completing and note that in your dialogues with colleagues, you are to indicate what you learned from each person to whom you are responding in the response. This is also a good reminder that your initial post should be substantive and include several resources with in-text citations and references, so you are instructive in your post. Please think of yourselves as peer mentors! :=] Please be sure and read Module 2. I am only posting some highlights and adding clarifying information.

 

Discussion: Assessing Children’s Growth 

 

To prepare between the promotion of healthy development across all domains of children’s growth (physical, intellectual, and social-emotional) and annual assessments. Then, consider her question, “How do you define and measure [program] quality without … children’s test scores…?” (Epstein, p. 1). As you begin this Discussion, also reflect on the controversy that is commonly associated with formally assessing a child’s growth. Specifically, consider the societal, political, and economic factors that may drive this controversy.

 

Part 1: By Day 3 of Week 3 – Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Post an explanation of the relationship between healthy development across all domains and annual assessments. Then, explain the impact this relationship has had on today's early childhood programs and why. Support your post with content from required readings and viewings, information garnered from your own research and your own experiences. Support your statements with in-text citations and references.

Read and reflect upon your colleagues' postings.

 

Part 2: By Day 7 of Week 3 – Sunday, 20 March 2022

Post an explanation of how societal, political, and/or economic factors drive the controversy associated with the assessment piece of program evaluations. In addition, explain how this controversy might impact or has impacted the perceived effectiveness of early childhood programs.

 

By Day 3 of Week 4 – Wednesday, 23 March 2022

Read and reflect upon your colleagues' postings. Respond to two or more of your colleagues' postings by acknowledging their contributions to your own learning. Extend your response by including one or both of the following in your response:

· Propose additional impacts formal assessments might have on child outcomes and healthy development.

· Explain how societal, political, and/or economic factors might also impact the perceived progress of children's growth and healthy development related to your colleagues' posts.

· Support comments made in your responses with in-text citations and references.

 

By Day 7 of Week 4 – 27 March 2022

Return to this Discussion at least 3–4 times in the second week of the module (Week 4) to read the responses to your initial posting and other recent postings. Note what you have learned and/or any insights you have gained as a result of the comments your colleagues made and the connections you have made with the Learning Resources. Then, respond to two or more colleagues with questions or insightful comments.

 

Group Discussion 1: Introductions - PLEASE SEE GROUPS AT THE TOP OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT!

 

Throughout this course, you will work alongside a group of your colleagues to analyze, aggregate, and synthesize evaluation data. In Week 3, take time to get to know your group members and to set group expectations. It is also highly recommended that you look ahead to Project deliverables, set individual and group deadlines, and identify exact dates and times when your group will meet. These ways of working will be decided by each group and not dictated by the facilitator of the course. Please let the facilitator (Dr. Mary Barbara Trube) know if you have questions or need input.

 

To prepare

Identify the group to which you have been assigned, as detailed in your Instructor’s class Announcement. If you have yet to do so, take time to review the Project deliverables outlined in the “Overview of Learning Outcomes Project #4 and Group Project” document.

By Day 5 of Week 3 – Friday, 18 March 2022

Introduce yourself to your group members by posting the following in your Group Discussion Board:

· Your name, where you live, and a brief description of your experience in the field of early childhood 

· Day(s) of the week and time(s) which work best for group meetings 

· Your preferred communication method (e-mail, phone, Skype, Zoom, Teams and such).

Colleagues, please contact me with any questions, confusions, concerns, or just to say, "Hello!" Please have a safe and productive week.

Barbara

Dr. Mary Barbara Trube Contributing Faculty - Walden University College of Education & Leadership - ECE Remote: Florida USA ET

[email protected]

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