This week I learned about the different documentation, why we use documentation, and how we use them. Documentation is in many different forms such as, photographs, notes from the teacher, transcript of child's conversations, artwork, drawings, or graphs. There are so many things you can do with these documentations as well. You can put them into a portfolio, make a digital folder and make a bullion board.
Where I work now we have to keep a portfolio of all the kids in our rooms so that when their IEP meetings come up we can bring them there with us and have some work to show the parents. I love having the documentation for when parents are getting the wrong information from their child and we can show them exactly what happened.
During the first week of this class we focused a lot on the different types of assessments. I did not know there were different ones before this class. I thought all assessments were just the big tests like the PSSA and the Keystone. We not only focused on what the types were but why we use assessments. As I mentioned before I thought they were just those big tests but now I know they are much more and they are so important. They are very helpful for both the student and the teacher. The assessments help us be able to know where to place them on the curriculum or for the next grade. The kids get so much out of them since they will be getting the proper help they need since we would be able to get a good idea of what they needed by assessing them. My plan is to be a special education teacher and I will be using both the formal and informal assessments all the time to make sure I am giving the students everything they need from me to help them learn and get good grades. Also since I wan
Hey Maddie! It's awesome to see that you already have experience with documentation at your job. I loved they way you listed all the different forms of documentation and how to organize them.
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