At the school I worked our preschoolers (ages 3,4,5 ) start the last Monday of August. The elementary & middle school children would start the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September (The first Monday in September is Labor Day Holiday). Therefore the preschoolers got an extra week of settling in to the new routines, etc.. before the older kids came in. The preschoolers ended a week earlier in June when the older kids would be taking taking final exams the last week of school.
I agree wholeheartedly teachers and practitioners need to be trusted more with assessment. Not every child fits into the boxes that the government wants them to, children are all fantastic in their own ways and as people who work with them day in and day out we know them best! Great video, very eloquent and well said!
I think us8ng your own judgment within the first few weeks of terms through acitivites and observations is plenty to baseline a child. For some children reception may be their first experience of education therefor you will have a lot of children get upset or it may even stall a trusting relationship right at the start. We dont need these tests! Fab video - current reception teaching assistant (starting my degree in september to go into teaching) x
Surely we constantly assess children from the start. There must be a quick way to enter those results onto a form for the government assessors. Do they not trust the OFSTED reports?
New Zealand just got rid of ‘National Standards’ after trailing it again, teachers spend so much time assessing they can’t teach efficiently from what I saw
It's scary for our kids. I do worry what thr government are doing to them. I trust my daughters teachers wholeheartedly (I wouldn't leave her in the morning if I didn't). I don't trust a single politician. Is there a petition to sign?
I fear for our children future! I am in totally agreement with you on standardised testing. But baseline testing for a 4yr old testing there knowledge on what seems like the things they will be learning in reception is awful. I know my daughter who is in reception would have struggled mentally with a baseline test. She is a perfectionist and gets very upset if she doesn't understand something or doesn't know somethings she is asked. It feels like there setting children up for failure. Reception is about encouragement even if you are not successful not TESTING ! Xx
At the school I worked our preschoolers (ages 3,4,5 ) start the last Monday of August. The elementary & middle school children would start the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September (The first Monday in September is Labor Day Holiday). Therefore the preschoolers got an extra week of settling in to the new routines, etc.. before the older kids came in. The preschoolers ended a week earlier in June when the older kids would be taking taking final exams the last week of school.
I agree wholeheartedly teachers and practitioners need to be trusted more with assessment. Not every child fits into the boxes that the government wants them to, children are all fantastic in their own ways and as people who work with them day in and day out we know them best! Great video, very eloquent and well said!
I think us8ng your own judgment within the first few weeks of terms through acitivites and observations is plenty to baseline a child. For some children reception may be their first experience of education therefor you will have a lot of children get upset or it may even stall a trusting relationship right at the start.
We dont need these tests!
Fab video
- current reception teaching assistant (starting my degree in september to go into teaching) x
Surely we constantly assess children from the start. There must be a quick way to enter those results onto a form for the government assessors. Do they not trust the OFSTED reports?
Excellent video
New Zealand just got rid of ‘National Standards’ after trailing it again, teachers spend so much time assessing they can’t teach efficiently from what I saw
What is PGCE? Is that a UK term? What does it mean?
It's scary for our kids. I do worry what thr government are doing to them. I trust my daughters teachers wholeheartedly (I wouldn't leave her in the morning if I didn't). I don't trust a single politician. Is there a petition to sign?
I fear for our children future!
I am in totally agreement with you on standardised testing. But baseline testing for a 4yr old testing there knowledge on what seems like the things they will be learning in reception is awful. I know my daughter who is in reception would have struggled mentally with a baseline test. She is a perfectionist and gets very upset if she doesn't understand something or doesn't know somethings she is asked. It feels like there setting children up for failure. Reception is about encouragement even if you are not successful not TESTING ! Xx