Ways that Teachers could monitor a child's progress?

Question

For pre-school children.

Answer 1

By grading the child's  paper.

That will tell you  a lot if the child has improves or not.

Their handwriting, reading, math, coloring, and drawing skills, what I notice in a child who can draw something and coloring it very nicely without smearing it all over tend to be a fast learner. So watch out for improvement in those areas. And they can tell you exactly what they are drawing and tell you story about the pictures and the story match with the picture.

When you first met the child he/she couldn't even do that now he/she can, that tell ya the child is improving even just a little but that makes a difference.

Answer 2

By grading the papers the child turns in. Higher scores = improvement.

Answer 3

we use clickers inclass - each kid has aremote and enters their answers several times durign the lesson - this creates a spreadsheet on my computer and i an adjust my lesson right there.

walking around seeing what they  produce in class

homework from the previous night

quick assessments  = pop quizes.

  summative and formative assessments

i get more info informally that from a test.



getting a student to explain in words what they are doing/ understanding/ drawign  a representation of what they understand.

Answer 4

Continually monitoring progress in various areas...

Answer 5

For pre-schoolers you might want to just ask them to explain what they are doing, and why?

You can also write your student's names on the top of cue cards, and then tape the top of the cards onto a clipboard so that a;; you can see is just the names. Then just write notes on each students. You can show this to parents or anyone else.

Answer 6

Only writing truly gauges thought and learning.

Answer 7

Depends on what you want to monitor.  Observations is one way, assessments is another way.  In Reading you can give a running record assessment of a reading passage.  With this you can check for phonics, fluency, comprehension and decoding.  The first one can be your benchmark.  After assessing them on a weekly or biweekly basis you can clearly see if they are improving.  You can give a pre-assessment on a unit before beginning and a post-assessment after the unit, this will tell you how much they improved.

Answer 8

portfolios

tests (standardized or teacher-made)

quizzes "   ""

book reports

pre and post tests

projects

speeches

informal assessment - talking to a student

information from other teachers

standardized test information from previous years

information from parents or counselors

Answer 9

For pre-school children, I would keep it simple. Informal observations and notes, believe it or not, are excellent ways to track and monitor students' progress. Keep the notes in a portfolio for each student.

Along with those notes, keep work samples for each student. For example, at the beginning of the year (even if they aren't able to just yet), ask the students to write their names on a sheet of paper. You, the teacher, date and write the student's name and place it into his/her portfolio. Do this again every grading period in order to have the documentaion that demonstrates growth (or lack of) for each student.

You should also keep notes and work samples for math and reading. Though your students may more than likely not be reading at such an early age, running records are excellent tools to help monitor reading performance. You can do these with letters and their sounds--quite possibly even with simple sight words (is, it, in, etc.).

Answer 10

You can end-up with a frenzied amount of paperwork and lots of time devoted to keeping records... I would recommend a simpler system.  I'm sure you would like to focus more on teaching than record keeping; you will have more contact time with your students and therefore more observation time.  I see a possibility for you to keep informal brief notes, perhaps written on a weekly or monthly basis.  Your notes would include the strengths of the child and what improvements you would like to see by the next note-writing session.  I would perhaps write some notes on two students per day... then a week or two later (perhaps a month), review the notes and again write strengths and desired improvements.  The key is to keep it simple, provide yourself information, and use that information to help develop lesson plans and activities.