TS GOLD
Observation-Based Assessment
Day Early Learning teachers have been trained to assess children using Teaching Strategies’ GOLD assessment. This system assesses children across 23 developmental objectives that predict school success, which Day Early Learning has mapped to the early essentials that guide our approach to teaching and learning.
Each child has an individualized assessment plan, and teachers conduct four observation-based checkpoints throughout the year to ensure steady growth.
Children’s progress is charted against normal development trends, with information provided on what children should be achieving next in their growth trajectory. This information helps teachers ensure children are progressing towards developmental milestones and identify any areas in which they need additional support.
Areas of Development
Social-Emotional
The ability for children to identify and co-regulate their emotions, form and maintain social relationships with adults and peers, and learn how to be a member of a group
Physical
The extent to which children are meeting milestones related to large and fine motor development such as running and jumping or holding pencils and cutting paper
Literacy
A child’s developing awareness of print, letters, letter sounds and how to use writing to convey meaning
Language
The extent to which children can use and understand language, as well as follow its social rules through conversations and play
Cognitive
A child’s increasing ability to attend and engage, to be curious, make connections, and demonstrate flexibility and creativity in their thinking and play
Mathematics
A child’s deepening awareness of spatial relationships, numerical concepts such as more and less, shapes and patterning
