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Download full textMiller, Edward; Almon, Joan – Alliance for Childhood (NJ3a), 2009
Kindergarten has changed significantly in the last two decades: children now spend more time being taught and tested on literacy and math skills than they do learning through play and exploration, exercising their bodies, and using their imaginations. Many kindergartens use highly prescriptive curricula geared to new state standards and linked to…
Descriptors: Play, Early Childhood Education, State Standards, Standardized Tests
Direct linkMiller, Teresa Northern; Leslie-Toogood, Adrienne; Kaff, Marilyn – Principal Leadership, 2005
Adolescents today face increasing challenges, while the support systems that should help them meet and surmount those challenges are rapidly disappearing. Yearly statistics on teen substance abuse, depression, suicide, and violent crime continue to escalate. Teens with low attachments to school are most vulnerable because they are less likely to…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Functional Behavioral Assessment
Bagnato, Stephen J.; Elliott Stephen N., Ed.; Witt, Joseph, C., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2007
Meeting a crucial need, this book provides clear recommendations for authentic developmental assessment of children from infancy to age 6, including those with developmental delays and disabilities. It describes principles and strategies for collecting information about children's everyday activities in the home, preschool, and community, which…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Early Intervention, Child Development, Preschool Children
National Association of Elementary School Principals, Alexandria, VA. – 1998
This second edition provides principals, teachers, and parents with new insight into early childhood education. Research underscores the importance of increasing emphasis on literacy and language acquisition, using assessment tools effectively, expanding community linkages, meeting the needs of a diverse student body, balancing academic and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Benchmarking, Curriculum Development
Garrett, Sandy – 1993
Oklahoma curriculum objectives for kindergarten through 12th grade present skills for the core and integrated curriculum areas and methods to assess student achievement. An overview of developmentally appropriate programs for kindergarten precedes objectives for social skills, creative skills, language arts skills, mathematics skills, motor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Core Curriculum, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Gullo, Dominic F. – 1994
This book is intended to help early childhood practitioners develop the essential understanding they require for appropriate use of assessment and evaluation information and to illuminate many of the issues involved in formal and informal assessment and evaluation. The chapters are: (1) "Assessment and Evaluation in the Early Childhood…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alternative Assessment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum Development
