Coming Soon: Teaching Strategies GOLD™
Coming in summer 2010, the most teacher-friendly early childhood assessment system ever created!
Teaching Strategies GOLD™
A brand-new, ongoing observational assessment tool--based upon years of feedback from thousands of educators and important new research about how children develop and learn. It's an assessment system that helps teachers be intentional in their teaching by accurately pinpointing where children are in their development and learning. It's a teacher-friendly, easy-to-understand approach to observation, documentation, portfolio-building, and reporting--the essential components of a high-quality assessment system.
Put simply, GOLD is the observational assessment system early childhood educators have been asking for.
Features of Teaching Strategies GOLD™
Teaching Strategies GOLD contains many unique, user-friendly features designed to remove some of the most common frustrations with assessment, including:
Objectives for development and learning that are aligned to state early learning standards and are predictors of school success...
...so that educators can stay focused on what matters most for children's development and learning.
Seamless assessment for children from birth through kindergarten...
...so that educators and families can see a broad picture of development and learning at a glance.
Easy-to-understand color codes indicating age ranges for widely-held expectations for development and learning...
...so that teachers can accurately assess all children, including those with disabilities or special needs.
Integrated, engaging assessment opportunities focused on literacy and numeracy...
...so that teachers can focus their observations on specific literacy and numeracy skills that are important for children's progress--leaving nothing to chance.
New objectives for English-language acquisition, developed by Dr. Patton Tabors, as well as Spanish oral language and literacy objectives to support dual-language learners...
...so that teachers can assess and support all children in their programs.
A dedicated online portal where families can access and contribute information about their child's learning and development...
...so that teachers can make regular communication with families an essential part of every child's learning experience
What will Teaching Strategies GOLD mean for you? It's simple: it will mean an assessment system that's easy to use. It will mean an assessment system that's accurate. It will mean an assessment system that works.
Find Out More About Teaching Strategies GOLD™
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