Behavioral Observation and Screening MODULE 1

Quality screening instructments need to be:

Records how often a behvioral happens

Child care professionals screen children because it allows them to

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

Written data collected by the program about a child

Everything in a child's file

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

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

Central Directory and Child Find

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

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

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

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

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

List of skills and abilities to be observed

Narrative account of an event written shortly AFTER it occured

Observation and Screening foster what in children?

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

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

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