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Using Assessment Results to Guide Instruction: Making it Real A Forum for Directors and Teachers

Using Assessment Results to Guide Instruction: Making it Real A Forum for Directors and Teachers Moderated by: Ginny Shields Dr. Wendi F. Siegel VPK Assessment Implementation Project Early Learning Coalition of Broward County, Inc. State Requirements: All VPK providers must…

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Using Assessment Results to Guide Instruction: Making it Real A Forum for Directors and Teachers

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  1. Using Assessment Results to Guide Instruction: Making it Real A Forum for Directors and Teachers Moderated by: Ginny Shields Dr. Wendi F. Siegel VPK Assessment Implementation Project Early Learning Coalition of Broward County, Inc

  2. State Requirements: • All VPK providers must… • Assess all children enrolled • AP1 September • AP 3 April/May • Online Reporting • WHAT ABOUT AP2?

  3. AP 2: It’s not required BUT it is the road map to the second half of the year. It is the basis of instruction planning and individualization AP 2: To test or not to test…. there is no question

  4. Purpose of VPK Assessment • It is a teaching tool • to guide instruction • to document learning gains

  5. TESTING PROCESS IMPORTANT RULE: RECORD FIRST SCORE LATER DO BOTH

  6. What’s wrong with this picture?

  7. Correct Order: RECORD Child’s responses

  8. Correct Order: SCORE LATER

  9. USING THE RESULTS: SCORES ARE A TEACHING TOOL

  10. WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU? WHAT DOESN’T IT TELL YOU?

  11. The Spreadsheet providesMore in-depth information about:Class masteryIndividual child masterySpecific skill informationInstructional directionINFORMATION IS POWERFor a spreadsheet of items for all 3 testing periodscwasserman4kids@gmail.com

  12. DISCUSSION:The results from AP2 provide critical information for teachers to properly plan instruction that meets the needs of each individual child, according to his/her needsWhat are some ways to do this?What do you need in order to do this?

  13. Helpful Materials and Sites • Pre-K Pages www.prekpages.com • Reading Rockets- Preschool reading rockets.org • Balanced Literacy Diet www.litdiet.org • You Tube: (search for phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, shared reading, shared writing, dialogic reading, math skills, teacher child interactions) • Pinterest • Jack Hartmann CD’s – • Rockin’ Reading Songs, Shake, Rattle and Read, Language Play and Listening Fun, Hip-Hop Alphabet Bop, Let’s Get Fit to the Alphabet, Rhymin’ to the Beat Volume 1 & 2

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