Why are you doing this? Why are you mimicking elementary school? Why not, instead, use portfolios to save children's work that show each child's progress and then meet with parents to discuss their development. Teachers could write up a short narrative to go along with samples in the portfolios, describing the child's growth in various areas. Early childhood development is variable across children and uneven - parents often don't understand that and compare their children to other children the same age as their child. Using documentation and portfolios is a more parent "friendly" and helpful way to communicate a child's growth and support families in their efforts to promote healthy development in their child. You could also do something similar to what NAEYC does in their DAP books - share descriptions of what to expect in terms of development at different ages. They also point out that we should look at development through 3 lens: the individual child, the group, and the child's culture.
Checklists do not tell you how the child learns or where they may be confused or what they need in order to further their development academically and emotionally. Please take a look at Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee's work on learning stories or how documentation is used in the Reggio Emilia schools in Italy and in schools inspired by Reggio Emilia. Looking for ideas closer to home on sharing children's progress through documentation to demonstrate children's learning and share that learning with families, look at Susan Stacey's books, Diane Kashin's books, and many of Deb Curtis, Margie Carter, and Ann Pelo's books and articles.
Good luck. I would seriously reconsider the direction of your approach to measuring children's progress for the age groups that you have in your attached documents.
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Nora Krieger, PhD
Associate Professor Emerita/Past Chair NJEEPRE
Bloomfield College/NJ Educators Exploring the Practices of Reggio Emilia
Highland Park, NJ
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-07-2023 12:01 PM
From: Karen Watson
Subject: Sample report cards
Hello! Our faculty are looking at our report cards, the indicators we use to measure progress, etc. and we would love to see examples of reports from other schools.
I have attached samples of our PreK (3s), Junior Kindergarten (4s) and Senior Kindergarten (5s). Our current reports are broken into sections by area of development/learning, each with a checklist of benchmarks ("indicators") that get marked "beginning", "developing" or "achieving". A short narrative about that area of the child's development is included in each section.
What are others using? If anyone has samples they might share, that would be so helpful!
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Karen Watson
Director, Cranbrook Early Childhood Center
Cranbrook Schools
Detroit MI
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