Case study scenario week 7 | Observations, Assessments, and Individualizations

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CHS450 – Observation,
Assessment & Individualization

Unit 7 Assignment: Strategy for Technology Use in Documenting Dramatic Play

Due Date: 11:59 pm EST Sunday of Unit 4
Points: 100

Overview:

You will develop a technology strategy for documenting dramatic play and evaluate your strategy.
This will be done in the form of a two-page paper.

Instructions:

Begin by reading this scenario:

Scenario: You are a new teacher in a pre-K classroom. Your center has six new digital
cameras and two new iPads, and each classroom has just been given a website. You decide to
explore new technology tools to observe and document students in your class during dramatic
play. You sit down to create an observation strategy, considering what technology is best suited
to observing dramatic play.
(2022 Cengage Learning)

In writing your paper, include complete responses to the following three prompts:

1. Describe a dramatic-play activity and two types of assessments, their purposes, and

their associated methods and tools. Tell which assessment tool you would use for the
activity and why. (NAEYC Standard 3b)

2. Describe the professional communication skills, including technology-mediated
strategies, you would use to effectively support young children’s learning and
development and to work with families and colleagues. (NAEYC Standard 6c)

3. Describe how you would use the knowledge gained from the assessment of the dramatic
play activity to make evidence-based decisions that support each child. (NAEYC
Standard 1d)

Requirements:

• Address all aspects of the eight items above.
• Write two pages double-spaced with 1-inch margins (about 500 words).
• Include a cover and reference pages.
• Use 12 pt: Times New Roman or similar font.
• Use APA formatting.
• Submit the paper as an MS Word document using the assignment link in Unit 4.

Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be evaluated before you write and again
after you write.

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Evaluation Rubric for Unit 4 Assignment

CRITERIA

Excellent Good Fair Needs Improvement

32 points 25 – 31 points 10 – 24 points 0 – 9 points
Prompt 1
Standard 3b:
Know a wide range of
types of
assessments, their
purposes, and their
associated methods
and tools.

Insightful response
describes a dramatic-
play activity and two
types of assessments,
their purposes,
associated methods,
and tools, and which
would be best for the
activity and why.

Competent response
describes a dramatic-
play activity, two types
of assessments, their
purposes, associated
methods, and tools,
and which would be
best for the activity and
why.

Marginally satisfactory
in one or more of the
following ways. It may
respond to the item
illogically, need more
coherent structure or
elaboration, or reflect
an incomplete
understanding.

The response shows
serious weaknesses,
ordinarily of several kinds.
It may present a simplistic,
inappropriate, or
incoherent analysis of or
response to the prompt,
suggesting some
significant
misunderstanding of the
topic.

Prompt 2
Standard 6c:
Use
professional
communication
skills, including
technology-
mediated
strategies, to
effectively
support young
children’s
learning and
development
and to work with
families and
colleagues.

Insightful development
and mature style
describe how to develop
professional
communication skills,
including technology-
mediated strategies, to
effectively support
young children’s
learning and
development and to
work with families and
colleagues.

Competent response
and thoughtful analysis
describe how to
develop professional
communication skills,
including technology-
mediated strategies, to
effectively support
young children’s
learning and
development and to
work with families and
colleagues.

Marginally satisfactory
in one or more of the
following ways. It may
respond to the item
illogically, need more
coherent structure or
elaboration, or reflect
an incomplete
understanding.

The response shows
serious weaknesses,
ordinarily of several kinds.
It may present a simplistic,
inappropriate, or
incoherent analysis of or
response to the prompt,
suggesting some
significant
misunderstanding of the
topic.

Prompt 3
Standard 1d:
Use this
multidimensional
knowledge – that is
knowledge about the
developmental period
of early childhood,
about individual
children and about
development and
learning in cultural
contexts to make
evidence-based
decisions that support
each child.

Insightful development
and a mature style
provide examples of
how development and
learning in cultural
contexts were used to
make evidence-based
decisions that support
each child.

The competent and
thoughtful analysis
provides examples
of how development
and learning in
cultural contexts
were used to make
evidence-based
decisions that
support each child.

Marginally satisfactory
in one or more of the
following ways. It may
respond to the item
illogically, need more
coherent structure or
elaboration, or reflect
an incomplete
understanding.

The response shows
serious weaknesses,
ordinarily of several kinds.
It may present a simplistic,
inappropriate, or
incoherent analysis of or
response to the prompt,
suggesting some
significant
misunderstanding of the
topic.

SS3.
Candidates have
effective skills in
written and verbal
communication.

4 points
The writing is error-free
and APA-compliant.

1 points
Few errors that do not
impede presentation.

2 points
There are numerous.
errors, however, they
do not impede
presentation.

0 points
Errors impede
professional presentation.