On-going Task Assessments
Assessments will be based on Kindergarten standards using the Teaching Strategies GOLD. Click on the link below for more information. www.state.nj.us/education/ece/rttt/njkea/
Assessment is the ongoing process we use to find out what every child knows and can do. It helps us discover each child’s strengths, skills, interests, and needs so we know how to help every child experience success. Our assessment system also enables us to exchange information with families so, together, we can ensure that your child is progressing.
The assessment system we use does not involve testing children. We learn about children by carefully observing what they do and say as they participate in everyday activities in the classroom. We know that each child is an individual, with different interests, skills, strengths, and needs. The more we learn about each child, the better we can plan experiences that are just right: sufficiently challenging and engaging.
What Is Being Assessed and Why?
When assessing children, we observe and nurture the skills and knowledge we want them to acquire in our program. Assessment, therefore, is closely linked to our curriculum.To teach effectively, we have to know what to teach, when to teach particular skills, and how to teach in ways that help each individual child develop and learn.
Objectives for Development & Learning
Social–Emotional
d. Tellsaboutanothertimeorplace
How Assessment Works
When we say that Teaching Strategies GOLD® online is an authentic, ongoing, and observation-based assessment system, it means we:
Assessments will be based on Kindergarten standards using the Teaching Strategies GOLD. Click on the link below for more information. www.state.nj.us/education/ece/rttt/njkea/
Assessment is the ongoing process we use to find out what every child knows and can do. It helps us discover each child’s strengths, skills, interests, and needs so we know how to help every child experience success. Our assessment system also enables us to exchange information with families so, together, we can ensure that your child is progressing.
The assessment system we use does not involve testing children. We learn about children by carefully observing what they do and say as they participate in everyday activities in the classroom. We know that each child is an individual, with different interests, skills, strengths, and needs. The more we learn about each child, the better we can plan experiences that are just right: sufficiently challenging and engaging.
What Is Being Assessed and Why?
When assessing children, we observe and nurture the skills and knowledge we want them to acquire in our program. Assessment, therefore, is closely linked to our curriculum.To teach effectively, we have to know what to teach, when to teach particular skills, and how to teach in ways that help each individual child develop and learn.
Objectives for Development & Learning
Social–Emotional
- Regulates own emotions and behaviors
- Manages feelings
- Follows limits and expectations
- Takes care of own needs appropriately
- Establishes and sustains positive relationships
- Forms relationships with adults
- Responds to emotional cues
- Interacts with peers
- Makesfriends
- Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
a. Balances needs and rights of self and others - b. Solves social problems
Physical - Demonstrates traveling skills
- Demonstrates balancing skills
- Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
- Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
a. Usesfingersandhands
b. Useswritinganddrawingtools
Language - Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
a. Comprehendslanguage b. Followsdirections - Uses language to express thoughts and needs
a. Usesanexpandingexpressivevocabulary b. Speaksclearly
d. Tellsaboutanothertimeorplace
- Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
a. Engagesinconversations
b. Usessocialrulesoflanguage
Cognitive - Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
- Attendsandengages
- Persists
- Solvesproblems
- Shows curiosity and motivation
- Showsflexibilityandinventivenessinthinking
- Remembers and connects experiences
a. Recognizesandrecalls
b. Makesconnections - Uses classification skills
- Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
a. Thinkssymbolically
b. Engagesinsociodramaticplay
- Demonstrates phonological awareness
- Notices and discriminates rhyme
- Notices and discriminates alliteration
- Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units
of sound
- Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- Identifies and names letters
- Uses letter–sound knowledge
- Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
- Uses and appreciates books
- Uses print concepts
- Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
a. Interacts during read-alouds and book conversations - b. Uses emergent reading skills
c. Retells stories - Demonstrates emergent writing skills
a. Writes name
b. Writes to convey meaning
Mathematics - Uses number concepts and operations
a. Counts
b. Quantifies
- Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
a. Understands spatial relationships - b. Understands shapes
- Compares and measures
- Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
Science and Technology - Uses scientific inquiry skills
- Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
- Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
- Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment
- Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Social Studies - Demonstrates knowledge about self
- Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
- Explores change related to familiar people or places
- Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
The Arts - Explores the visual arts
- Explores musical concepts and expression
- Explores dance and movement concepts
- Explores drama through actions and language
English Language Acquisition - Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
- Demonstrates progress in speaking English
How Assessment Works
When we say that Teaching Strategies GOLD® online is an authentic, ongoing, and observation-based assessment system, it means we:
- observe your child during regular, everyday activities;
- document what we see and hear by taking notes, collecting samples of your child’s drawings and writing attempts, or taking photos, audio recordings, or video clips;
- exchange information with you to gain a more complete picture of what your child knows and can do;
- compare the information collected to research-based, widely held expectations for children of similar ages or grades; and
- use the information to plan experiences that support your child’s learning and meet individual needs, both at home and at school.