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Overview

For this Performance Task Assessment, you will act as the director of  an early childhood center who observes a preschool classroom with the  goal of helping the teacher, Ms. Long, recognize and improve the ways  she is creating a positive classroom community through her classroom  environment; daily schedule, routines, class meetings, and transitions;  and interactions and intentional strategies to build trusting  relationships. You will review a PowerPoint that presents a day in Ms.  Long’s preschool classroom. Then you will complete a Director’s Log,  noting how the environment, routines, and interactions support a  positive classroom community and healthy social-emotional development and  offer recommendations for improvement.

 Your response to this Assessment should:

• Review the PowerPoint Presentation: “Snap Shots: Observing a Day in Ms. Long’s Preschool Classroom.”
• Use the information provided in the PowerPoint as your information about Ms. Long’s Classroom.
• Complete and submit the “Director’s Observation Log.”

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Promoting Positive Classroom Communities That foster Healthy Social-Emotional Development

Scenario:

Ms. Long is a new preschool teacher who is committed to providing  children with a positive classroom community and a sense of belonging.  She wants to make sure her classroom environment, daily schedule, and  adult interactions and intentional strategies work together to support  positive behaviors and foster healthy social-emotional development.  After a month into the school year, Ms. Long asks you, the director of  the preschool, to observe her classroom. She has asked that you focus  your observation on how she is doing in each these areas, highlighting  where she is doing well and providing her with suggestions for  improvement. You are thrilled with the professional way she has asked  for your input and look forward to the process.