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ED365474 PS022051
Title: Ways of Assessing Children and Curriculum: Stories of Early Childhood Practice.
Author(s): Genishi, Celia, Ed.
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 1992
Notes: Foreword by Millie Almy.
ISBN: 0-8077-3185-4
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027.
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--General (020)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New York
Journal Announcement: RIEMAY1994
The teachers'
stories in this book present ways of assessing children and curriculum
that are embedded in everyday classroom life. Assessment here refers
to teachers' informal ways of observing and documenting development
and learning. Seven chapters include: (1) "Framing the Ways"
(Celia Genishi), about the importance of story for conveying aspects
of everyday experience in early childhood classrooms and the broad
historical and educational contexts framing the stories; (2) "Learning
To See the Learning of Preschool Children" (Jan Waters and
others), about emotional safety, a curriculum emerging in response
to individual children, and communication among children, teachers,
and parents; (3) "Linking Curriculum and Assessment in Preschool
and Kindergarten" (Martha Foote and others), on the inseparability
of
curriculum and assessment; (4) "A Social Perspective on Informal
Assessment: Voices, Texts, Pictures, and Play from a First Grade"
(Sarah Merritt and Anne Haas Dyson); (5) "Learning with, about,
and from Children: Life in a Bilingual Second Grade" (Julia
Fournier and others), on everyone-as-learner; (6) "Informal
Assessment in Second Grade: A Foxfire Story" (Janet Mobley
and Sharon Teets), about student-centered practice and older students;
and (7) "Looking Forward: Toward Stories of Theory and Practice"
(Celia Genishi). Each chapter includes references. (TJQ)
Descriptors: *Curriculum Evaluation; Early Childhood Education;
*Elementary School Teachers; Evaluation Methods; *Informal Assessment;
*Personal Narratives; *Preschool Teachers; Story Telling; Student
Centered Curriculum; *Student Evaluation
Identifiers: *Alternative Assessment
