Learning and assesment exemplars
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The
early childhood learning and assessment exemplars
The Early Childhood Learning and Assessment Exemplar project has been developed
as a pilot project in association with the Ministry of Education National Exemplar
project in schools. For early childhood, exemplars are samples of assessments
of children's learning. They may include teacher observations, learning stories,
transcripts, children's work and adults' or children's comments. These written
elements may be accompanied by photographs or short video clips. The project completion
date is February 2003.
It is important to note that:
- the project is not developing any one assessment framework;
- the project team is going out to different early childhood settings to collect
examples of what early childhood professionals are already doing.
What is an
exemplar?
The members of the project team developing the early childhood exemplars
have arrived at the following draft definition. An early childhood exemplar
is:
a purposeful collection of voices/perspectives about learning or
progress over time.
The voices heard in the exemplars will include those of children, their
peers, teachers/practitioners, and parents/whānau.
What is the purpose
of the early childhood exemplars?
The early childhood exemplars will:
- provide examples of early childhood teachers/practitioners making assessments,
"noticing, recognising, and responding", using the Te Whāriki curriculum
framework;
- highlight learning outcomes from Te Whāriki in action;
- illustrate assessments that reflect the four principles of Te Whāriki
mandated for assessment in the DOPs. Such assessments
- reflect the holistic way that children learn;
- reflect the reciprocal relationships between the child, other people, and
the learning environment;
- involve parents/guardians and, where appropriate, whānau;
- enhance children's sense of themselves as capable people and competent learners.
The exemplars will:
- describe a range of ways (compatible with Te Whāriki) in which
children progress;
- highlight the connection between learning and the learning opportunities
in any one setting;
- illustrate assessments that include the voices of a range of participants,
or example, children, families/whānau, and staff/teachers/practitioners;
- illustrate assessments that are meaningful and accessible to a range of audiences,
for example, children, families/whānau, staff/teachers/practitioners, and
external evaluators;
- reflect the value of early childhood experiences;
- illustrate links to the national school curriculum framework.
What will the exemplar project produce?
The project will produce a set of annotated exemplars on different topics and/or
from different communities. These will provide a resource for teachers/practitioners
in different early childhood settings to help them develop their own assessments
of children's learning.
The project will also produce a set of principles, based on the principles in
the DOPs, to help teachers/practitioners in different early childhood settings
to develop their own assessment procedures. Different cultural communities will
interpret these principles differently, and examples of these differing interpretations
will be included.
| The exemplars will be published in printed and web-based formats. The web
materials will be located in the assessment kete on TKI. |
The project
team
Waikato:
Margaret Carr
Wendy Lee
Vicki Sonnenberg
Lesley Rameka
Carolyn Jones (Project Administrator),
The University of Waikato, phone (07) 838 4500 extn 6269
SES liaison:
Lesley Dunn
In the Auckland region:
Wendy Lee
Ann Hatherly
In the Wellington region:
Sarah Te One
Anita Mortlock
In the Christchurch region:
Keryn Morris
Stuart Guyton
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