Behavioral Observation and Screening

Child care professionals screen children because it allows them to

Records how often a behvioral happens

Quality screening instructments need to be:

A process that determines a child's eligibility for federal, state, & local programs & services

A product created by the child that becomes documentation of the development of a skill

Mandates that children with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education.

Which is not one of the 3 reasons child care programs observe and screen children?

Everything in a child's file

Ongoing process, child care teachers recognize & document identifiable developmental milestones

Word for word accounts of what children say while being interviewed by a teacher

The ability to set aside personal beliefs, values, opinions and biases, consider only the facts

Written data collected by the program about a child

Narrative account of an event written shortly AFTER it occured

Observation and Screening foster what in children?

Central Directory and Child Find

Records what activites a child chooses to do during a given time period

List of skills and abilities to be observed

Used to measure a behavior, skill or ability based on a series of quality points or a continuum

Involves the application of one's point of view when determining a course of thought or action

An account of what a child is doing as it is happening