What Our Children Means to Me!

"An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time."

by: Doc Childre, founder of HeartMath, a research and education organization

Assessments

In the city where I reside, our children take their very first assessment during kindergarten registration. This assessment is simply to find out what the child already knows. Their next assessment takes place in the 3rd and 4th grade in math and science and 5th grade in math, science, and reading. As a parent, I am still not sure of the purpose of these tests. As a parent, I assumed the purpose of the assessment was to see what lessons the students grasped or didn't grasp. However, teacher's give me the assumption that they are only teaching in order for students to get good scores on this test.

In Jamaica, many schools are run by churches and private organizations and others received subsidies from the government. The National Assessment Programme uses assessments to monitor academic achievement among students at the primary level. During the first grade students are assessed on readiness inventory; during the third grade they take a diagnostic test; a literacy test is given during the fourth grade; and a achievement test is given during the sixth grade.

Information retrieved from http://www.britishcouncil.org/jamaica-education-parents-jamaican-education-system.htm