During our NAEYC diversity and equity interest forum virtual book club on
Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs, I was struck by the idea of adding indicators to the process of assessing children. We pay a lot of attention to the things we assess!
The authors suggest indicators such as; "Identifies own physical characteristics", "uses home language at school", "uses accurate language to describe differences", "recognizes exclusion of another child", "recognizes stereotypes about people....." and "stands up for himself and others when he notices something is unfair". Is anyone using indicators like these? What impact has it had on your program? If you aren't yet using indicators that assess children's anti-bias learning, how do you think adding indicators like this might change the ways we work with young children? I'd love to hear many people's thoughts about this.
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[Meg] [Thomas]
[Early childhood consultant
[St Paul ] [MN]
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