The full name of the EDI is Early Development Instrument: A population-based measure for communities. It started in the late 90\u2019s as a response to an overwhelming request from communities to be able to keep score on children in their communities, not just individual children but whole groups of children at a time. So we\u2019ve done some research and we found out that while there were plenty of excellent individual measures to assess child\u2019s progress and development, none of them were cheap enough and feasible enough to aggregate to population level. And that\u2019s why the concept of Early Development Instrument has been conceived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Early Development Instrument is a checklist that\u2019s completed by kindergarten teachers in the second half of the kindergarten year and it\u2019s qualities of this instrument that provides a holistic assessment of child development based on the fact that all major domains of child development are included. So, while the concept of school readiness used to be a very narrow concept, usually focused on how many letters a child can recognize, whether a child can count to ten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re really covered on the whole spectrum of child development from a child\u2019s physical health and adjustment to school, a child\u2019s gross and fine motor development: the ability to hold a pencil, ability to hop on the playground, the ability to keep the energy up throughout the whole school day, through social competence and emotional maturity: ability to work with other children, ability to, every now and then, show some helping behaviour, some social behaviour to their peers, ability to hold their anger, ability not to show temper tantrums, to the kind of more obvious more traditional areas of what school readiness use to be considered before: like language and cognitive development as well as communication. What\u2019s important when children enter school is that they\u2019re understood by others. Not just by their parents, not just by the people who are around them all the time but also by teachers and by other children. As well as what\u2019s important, is the children understand their peers and their teachers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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