The purpose of child assessments is to evaluate language, cognitive, gross motor, fine motor, and social and emotional development.  These evaluations provide teachers and families with information that will help decide if a child will need any further developmental screenings.

Assessments also provide information to inform planning for overall program improvements.  Teaching teams will adjust their teaching strategies to meet the needs and interests of the children based on information gained from child assessments and parent knowledge.  Teaching teams will also use child assessment outcomes to design activities or lesson plans that meet the needs and interests of the children.  All assessments are shared with families by written report and parent/teacher conferences.

These conferences are done twice a year or as needed per individual child plan.  During these conferences families are given the opportunity to raise questions or concerns about how the assessment methods will meet their child’s needs and to contribute to the learning process by sharing their knowledge of their child and family culture with the teacher.

Families are provided information within our Parent Handbook that explains how teaching staff or others have been trained to conduct child assessment. Assessments are administered by the child’s primary teachers using the COR Advantage Observation-based child assessment. It is our goal to demonstrate continuity of care by keeping children with the same primary teacher for a minimum of nine months; especially with children under the age of 3.  This practice helps to ensure healthy relationships so that teachers are able to authentically assess their students.