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Assignment: Imagine you teach in a part/half-day preschool classroom. In your morning session (8:30-11:00 am) you have 18 four-year-old students - eight girls and ten boys. Five children are African American, six are White, five are Latinx, and two are Asian American. Six of the children do not speak English as their primary language. Two children have trouble with recognizing letters and pronouncing words.

Suppose you are to design a lesson to address the social studies early learning standard 18.A.ECa Recognize similarities and differences in people. How would you assess your students' prior knowledge and use that information to support your planning?

Question: Please answer the following questions:

1. Would observation inform you of what students already know and what their learning-related disabilities are? Why or why not? What other tools would you use for pre-assessment? Why are they useful?
2. How would you use the pre-assessment data to inform your lesson planning? How would you use the data to differentiate instruction to meet the diverse learners' needs in the classroom?
3. How would you assess students' learning during the lesson?
4. Would you use a standardized test to assess students' learning at the end of the lesson? Why or why not?
5. What other tools would you use for summative assessment? Why are these tools appropriate and adequate? How would you use that data to plan potential corrective instruction and extension activities?