Teaching and Assessment Practices

Order Description Analyzing Accomplished Teaching and Assessment Practices and Identifying Strengths and Weaknesses in Practice To prepare: • Analyze each element of the “Architecture of Accomplished Teaching,” “Standard V: Assessing Children’s Development and Learning,” and “Purposes for Assessment” • Then, read the two Bagnato (2011, 2014) articles. • Finally, review the material from Week 1 Discussion. Answer the following: • Identify three personal strengths and three challenges in your current assessment practices/teaching. Give examples from your own practice. • Identify how you can develop two of your areas of weakness. • Use external research (a minimum of two resources) to support your statements regarding improvement. • Include in your discussion the NAEYC “Purposes for Assessment.”