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Featuring a new spiral binding, the updated ECERS-R (Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition) offers more practical assistance in the form of an Expanded Score Sheet (which contains a worksheet), and additional notes for clarification to improve accuracy in scoring. However, the items and indicators remain the same as in the original ECERS-R.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
Whether you are going through an ECERS visit, preparing for Ofsted or just want to improve the quality of your provision, this book outlines the key areas of the classroom environment and gives clear descriptions of what poor to excellent settings would look like. Very helpful for team meetings when reflecting on your current practise.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
Found this book very useful when evaluating our setting for a local authority accreditation scheme.
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A Flawed, But Useful Instrument
23 Oct 2005
Format:Spiral-bound
I underwent ECERS-R evaluation using this same instrument when I worked in a poor, predominantly Black elementary school. I have concluded that this instrument, though thorough and insightful, somewhat downwardly grades poverty-stricken classrooms by pointing out what they don't have (and often can't get due to financial constraints). On the other hand, it rewards more affluent school districts due to their ability to supply more materials, resources, and equipment.
Even though I find it easy to follow, it allows way too much subjectivity for the assessing agent. How you rate my DISCIPLINE and STAFF-CHILD INTERACTIONS would depend on your experiences as a teacher in a certain cultural context. An assessor who mastered his classroom managing skills under the guise of a school district in a community devoted to authoritative discpline may misinterpret the cues in an authoritarian-dominated classroom as "inappropriate". In reality, appropriateness and inappropriateness depend on one's cultural context even with buttressing empircal research. For some people, authoritative classroom management allows children to "run wild", "control the classroom", and "do what they want to do too much".
To ensure the proper use of the instrument, administrators should:
1. Ensure that his teachers possess a copy of the ALL ABOUT THE ECERS-R companion book which details step-by-step how to put together an ECERS-R classroom.
2. BEFORE the official assessment, direct teachers to do an ACCURATE, well-guided, appropriately-paced self-study of their classroom.
3. BEFORE the official assessment, support the teacher's suggestions and requests to pull their classrooms up to ECERS-R standards.
4. BEFORE the official assessment, stay mindful of the things that a teacher can control and which things the principal can only control.
5. AFTER the official assessment, support the teacher's need to fix deficiencies.
6. AFTER the official assessment, make a concerted effort to fix the deficiencies that stand out of the teacher's hands.
In the end, all early childhood professionals should realize that a developmentally appropriate classroom doesn't begin and end with the ECERS-R despite its well-earned reputation.
Please use proper, realistic discernment.
Even though I find it easy to follow, it allows way too much subjectivity for the assessing agent. How you rate my DISCIPLINE and STAFF-CHILD INTERACTIONS would depend on your experiences as a teacher in a certain cultural context. An assessor who mastered his classroom managing skills under the guise of a school district in a community devoted to authoritative discpline may misinterpret the cues in an authoritarian-dominated classroom as "inappropriate". In reality, appropriateness and inappropriateness depend on one's cultural context even with buttressing empircal research. For some people, authoritative classroom management allows children to "run wild", "control the classroom", and "do what they want to do too much".
To ensure the proper use of the instrument, administrators should:
1. Ensure that his teachers possess a copy of the ALL ABOUT THE ECERS-R companion book which details step-by-step how to put together an ECERS-R classroom.
2. BEFORE the official assessment, direct teachers to do an ACCURATE, well-guided, appropriately-paced self-study of their classroom.
3. BEFORE the official assessment, support the teacher's suggestions and requests to pull their classrooms up to ECERS-R standards.
4. BEFORE the official assessment, stay mindful of the things that a teacher can control and which things the principal can only control.
5. AFTER the official assessment, support the teacher's need to fix deficiencies.
6. AFTER the official assessment, make a concerted effort to fix the deficiencies that stand out of the teacher's hands.
In the end, all early childhood professionals should realize that a developmentally appropriate classroom doesn't begin and end with the ECERS-R despite its well-earned reputation.
Please use proper, realistic discernment.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Hmmmm...
12 Sep 2010
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
Book seems to be missing a critical page or more at back - looking into this with publisher. Without these pages, the book is not very usable because the missing pages are about how to actually use the data obtained in the rating scale.
Excellent Choice!!
6 May 2012
Format:Spiral-bound|Amazon Verified Purchase
Thanks for sending a perfectly new book!! It is wonderful and I'm so glad that I made this choice. It will be very useful in my future endeavors.
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