Assessment Through Play

We know that in effective classrooms, assessment happens every day in a variety of ways. A play-based classroom offers unique and varied opportunities for teachers to understand and support their students as learners through a variety of assessment approaches. In this segment, we see the teachers using forms of assessment ranging from more formal tools to prompts, observations, self-assessment, and a variety of other ways that help students demonstrate learning. The teachers also share their strategies for organizing and documenting their assessment data.