to the world you are one person,but to one person you are the world.
unknown
Unless you try to do something beyond what you already mastered, you will never grow.
Ronald E.Osborn
The first quote I found a few years ago as I was putting together a power point presentation on foster care and it nice summed up the feeling I have about foster children and children in general because you never know if you are that one person who will make a difference in a child's life.
The second one I found for this class and points to how with each new thing we try we grow a bit just like children in their development.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Intelligence testing!
Testing the"whole child" would depend on the age of the child and what you are looking for, if anything in specific. I do believe testing is an added benefit of a great child care and preschools because you know where a child's strengths and weaknesses. You might even be able to tell what kind of learner the child is, does he do better when he see it done first or just hearing the directions. If you are going to test you should test all the areas you can: language(both expressive and receptive), fine and gross motor, spatial ability, self help skills, and cognitive. There are probably more areas you could test but these should give you a fairly good picture of the child. Then if therea are concern you have data to show a parent so the child can recieve the services he needs.
Chinese standardize testing
The Chinese value rote memory of most everything they score on a test. Chinese student are tested to see what elementary school they into as well as high school and college. The most information I found was on the college testing it is a multi-day test on everything they have learned or memorized. They put a lot of emphasise on "drill and kill" learning therefore many of their students cannot think outside the box, it is always an apple is always an apple or if you draw a tree it looks exactly like your classmates or the teachers.
So now many of the teachers in China are looking to the way we educate children so their students can be better in the United States when they come to study. They are looking at way to teach collaboration and creative thinking. How to work as a team and view other opinions as part of a thinking process. But with this move of thinking on their part so have we started to move to their way of thinking "drill and kill" maybe a way we can raise our test score.
I am not a great fan of is the one test fits all which many states have moved to because of No Child Left Behind(NCLB) because children do not all test the same way. The child could have an off day and not do as well for what ever reason we may not know about. Some are better at the pencil and paper test while other would do better if they could tell you the information. What I truly do not agree with is testing a child at his grade level when he is on an IEP and can not do the work at that level. I think a collection of best works both done by the teacher and child might be a better way to look at a child.
Sources: http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5264
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/17/education-in-china-testing-diane-sawyer_n_785016.html
Chinese standardize testing
The Chinese value rote memory of most everything they score on a test. Chinese student are tested to see what elementary school they into as well as high school and college. The most information I found was on the college testing it is a multi-day test on everything they have learned or memorized. They put a lot of emphasise on "drill and kill" learning therefore many of their students cannot think outside the box, it is always an apple is always an apple or if you draw a tree it looks exactly like your classmates or the teachers.
So now many of the teachers in China are looking to the way we educate children so their students can be better in the United States when they come to study. They are looking at way to teach collaboration and creative thinking. How to work as a team and view other opinions as part of a thinking process. But with this move of thinking on their part so have we started to move to their way of thinking "drill and kill" maybe a way we can raise our test score.
I am not a great fan of is the one test fits all which many states have moved to because of No Child Left Behind(NCLB) because children do not all test the same way. The child could have an off day and not do as well for what ever reason we may not know about. Some are better at the pencil and paper test while other would do better if they could tell you the information. What I truly do not agree with is testing a child at his grade level when he is on an IEP and can not do the work at that level. I think a collection of best works both done by the teacher and child might be a better way to look at a child.
Sources: http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=5264
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/17/education-in-china-testing-diane-sawyer_n_785016.html
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