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I'm a college student majoring in early childhood education/teacher education. I want to be a kindergarten teacher when I graduate. Everything this pp listed is what they are teaching us right now. It's about assessments. As a teacher, you write the lesson plans based on whatever the learning outcomes are supposed to be, and you assess the students as they demonstrate the skills that they learned from your lesson plans. It could be during group work, (large or small), or you demonstrate a task and ask them to complete it, but mostly at this young age, it's performance based assessments, and this is truly the best way to measure progress.

Let's say that the kindergarten class has 30 kids. Well, it's most likely in a district that has more resources (not a title one, or high farms school). Chances are that this school has plenty of parent volunteers in the class to allow the teacher time to focus on each individual student as needed, and chances are that many of the students are coming in with an academic advantage over those who are in the title one/ high farms rate schools.

Let's say that the kindergarten class has a high percentage of farms students [b](title one). In this case the class size will be smaller. Maybe 20 or less. [/b]In addition, there will be money for extra instructional aides. They may or may not have parent volunteers, but they will have aides. The teacher will still need to write lesson plans and assess the students, and the teacher will still have help.

The point is, assessments are a better measure of learning than tests. Ask yourself, would you rather demonstrate your knowledge and skills by answering a multiple choice test, or by showing how you know what you know. It's no different with students of any grade level. If I'm uncertain, heck yes I'll take the multiple choice test, but if I'm confident in my abilities (as a college student), I'll write the essay or report, or do the lab practical to prove that I know what I'm doing.[/quote]

I work at a Title One school and our K classes at least 24 kids each.  Don't believe everything you hear/read.[/quote]

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