My Personal Birthing Experience

When I think about child development I think about the statement “It takes a village to raise a child”.  From my studies and from my own experiences raising a child I know that influences on child development extend past the home.  Schools, communities and even the world influences how a child develops.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KATUBNuM5A Song sung by choir and lyrics address how villages must share the burden of raising and child and how all children are shared in a village.  https://www.nbcnews.com/video/clinton-still-believes-it-takes-a-village-734433859888?v=raila Hillary Clinton talks about how it still takes a village and country to raise a family.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wALh23YHB_k Michael Caito discusses how it takes communal effort to raise a child beyond the immediate family as well as supporting the adults in each family.  Do you have a village to support you as a parent and an adul...

Education today is data driven.  Teacher evaluations are based on how students perform on testing so anything other than “teaching to the test” can be scary.  However, when we teach to the test we do not teach to the “whole child”.  We should be looking at the child’s college, career and citizenship skills not just their score on standardized tests. If we are to assess the “whole child”, we should use assessments that facilitate high levels of student achievement by providing ongoing information about a student’s grasp of key concepts. Multiple assessments such as portfolios, criterion referenced tests, norm reference tests, comprehensive adaptive tests, diagnostic tests, along with formative, interim and summative assessments should be used because they provide a wide range of information and give a broader picture of the child’s strengths and weaknesses.  Children should also be allowed to evaluate their own progress and set their own...