Earning Criteria

• Aligns with ITC OA1: Selects and uses legal and ethical birth to three assessment procedures, screening tools, observation methods, and organizational strategies to gain knowledge of young children, and their familial and social contexts.
• Identify features of culturally appropriate assessment procedures and screening tools. Culturally appropriate features include inclusiveness of children’s families, communities, and ways of knowing and doing.
• Identify features of linguistically appropriate assessment procedures and screening tools (e.g., assessment is performed in child’s primary language, assessment items represent linguistic relevance)
• Identify features of developmentally appropriate assessment procedures and screening tools, for example, the assessment is appropriate for the child’s unique: • temperament, • abilities, • and preferred modes of interaction
• Identifiy assessments that are responsive to the unique needs of children, including ability, culture, and language.
• Describe culturally and linguistically responsive assessment strategies supporting family engagement in each aspect of the assessment, screening, and/or observation processes, for example: • inform families of purpose, • gather input from families regarding hopes, dreams, and goals, • discussing results, and • mutually developing goals
• Support the use of assessment-related activities in curriculum and in daily routines to facilitate authentic assessment and to make assessment an integral part of professional practice
• CHLD 128
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