developmental screeners.

As an ECE professionals our main purpose is to provide a safe and nurturing setting that will help children to be successful in development. Away that teachers can obtain information on development on a child is through collecting data. Though there are serval different ways to obtain data on children , the one that is most common are called screeners. Screeners are in sense test that helps and shows the child's development. In the book  Schooling for Measure  by Alfie Kohn (2015) states the purpose of test and how taken test effect people . For ECE programs, some screeners can be useful because they can give useful information to the teacher and or parent. One piece of information that I have found is from the Brigance. Brigance website states that after the screening is done they provide the what to do next for the child. I find that I as a teacher struggle with the "what to do next" category. So by the screeners providing that will help teachers such as myself come up with a plan to help the child be successful. Another piece of information that I have found is from the Dial 4 website. I found that the resources link to be useful. By Dial 4 giving a resource link to teachers to use will allow teachers to have knowledge at their finger tips for the children and their families. With that said, I believe that teachers and parents are the ones who benefit from the screening and the child does not. The reason why I feel that the child does not benefit from is because most of the screening compares the child information. How can we as teacher feel that's its ok to compare a child and their development to another child or the basic standards. No child is the same and they all learn differently. The down fall to screeners are the questions and how the child is being question by the teacher. For example, in the Brigance video the teacher was asking the questions and writing the child's answer down, the child looked uncomfortable. One of the question that the teacher asked to a five year old child was what is his address, I personally do not think that was age appropriate. At age five they should know numbers but to see them as an address is more complex therefore it is more a six year old or seven year old concept to me because the child is getting further into math at that age. The teacher was not really engaging with the child also. While the child was writing, she was writing and not looking, so how could the teacher tell about his writing technique? When I saw that in the video it really upset me. Teachers should always watch what the child is doing during assessments if not the teacher could collet wrong data and therefore assume something about the child. Screening effects the classroom in many ways. By teachers using screening the teacher are more likely to have non age appropriate items in centers. The teacher may lose focus on what the child is capable of and show more interest in what the computer is saying that the child should be capable of. When I have done my practicum in Head Start I had to do a few screening on the children. My approach was very different from the one in the video. I played with the children and made the questions into a game this had a positive outcome most of the children scored high. When I had told my professor at the college that I had to preform screen test on the children she looked at me and asked how I felt about it. I told her that I was not happy about the screen test it categories children in a unfair way. If it were up to for ECE programs I would not allow test because it unfair and cause the child to be subjected to compression in which we as ECE teachers a taught that no child is the same however we protect and love them all the same. .

References: 

https://www.curriculumassociates.com/Products/BRIGANCE/Early-Childhood

https://www.pearsonclinical.com/childhood/products/100000304/dial-4-developmental-indicators-for-the-assessment-of-learning-fourth-edition-dial4.html#tab-details