Kindergarten Assessment Essay

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Assessment in Kindergarten Teachers are one of the first people students go through for knowledge. As a kindergarten teacher you want to make your students understand what they are doing, to do so, teachers need to assess for understanding. Teachers test students in a variety of ways. As a kindergarten teacher you want to assess students by making observations of what you see and also by saving paper works such as a portfolio to keep track of how they are progressing. There are three different methods used to assess student knowledge: diagnostic, formative, and summative. In order to test students on the knowledge and understanding of kindergarten contend standard K.6 “Students understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times,” the teacher can implement the use of all three assessment methods. The diagnostic method is an assessment on the child’s previous knowledge or understanding of a subject, this method could involve asking the students if they know any of the elements of the content standard. For example, a teacher could ask if a student knows what the word “history” means. And depending on the students’ response, the teacher could take that question a step further by asking if the student personalized questions about the student or the student’s family, or even historical figures or events. But because this is kindergarten, it is more realistic to talk about the student history rather than historical events. Diagnostic method is one way to assess students before teaching them, whereas the formative method is a good method used to assess students during (or after) a lesson. The formative method of assessment can be informal or formal and typically is used to check and see if the children are attaining the information the teacher is teaching. An appropriate technique could be a game like jeopardy or memory that includes a
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