Denise Wasko and Becky CoffeltAugust 23, 2013

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Quote of the Day“Often the documentation provides insight into children’s thinking and helps drive the future curriculum!”

Focus of the day Helping you navigate the online system

Helping you to get quality documentations

Checkpoints determined by the DE November 13 February 25 May 29

WelcomeLet’s do a KWL chart

What do you already know about the GOLD assessment?

What do you what to learn today about the GOLD assessment?

System requirements for GOLD Online

Teaching Strategies GOLD online works on any PC (Windows XP SP2 or later) or Mac (OS X 10.6 or later) with a high-speed Internet connection (see Bandwidth Requirements below for details). The system works with the following web browsers:

Apple Safari 6.0 or newer Google Chrome 26.0 or newer Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or newer Mozilla Firefox 18.0 or newer

The Purpose of GOLD AssessmentPrimary

Observe and document children’s development and learning over time

Support, guide, and inform planning and instruction

Identify children who might benefit from special help, screening, or further evaluation

Report and communicate with family members and others

GOLD’s purpose continuedSecondary

Collect and gather child outcome information as one part of a larger accountability system

Provide reports to administrators to guide program planning and professional development opportunities.

Observing and Collecting Facts

Analyzing and Responding

Evaluating

Summarizing, Planning, and

Communicating

GOLDs Assessment CycleGOLDs Assessment Cycle

Hierarchy of the GOLDArea of development and learningObjectiveDimensionIndicatorExample

Color codes for the GOLDRed-Birth to 1 year skill rangeOrange -1-2 year skill rangeYellow-2-3 year skill rangeGreen -3-4 year skill rangeBlue –Pre-Kindergarten YearViolet-Kindergarten Year

Logging into GOLD Go to www.teachingstrategies.com

On the top right of the home page is “Log In”

Put in your user name and your password

If you forgot your password there is a way to get your password sent to your e-mail

Click submit and you will get your dashboard

You’re in GOLD now

Do you see the Teacher Quick-Start Guide to the right?

Find where you can do the module training on your own to learn more about GOLD

“The Sandbox” is a valuable tool

Getting started in GOLD1. Dashboard

-Gives you updates for your profile-What documentation is in the assessment-When your checkpoint is due-Alerts from Teacher Strategies

2. Market Place Tab-Shows if you have placed any orders

3. Communities Tab-Have discussions with other educators

4. Professional Development Tab-Courses available through Teaching Strategies-Sandbox to experiment with the GOLD assessment

5. My profile Tab

Getting into the GOLD AssessmentClick on the GOLD icon on the dashboard to

get to the GOLD assessment itself. See the 6 tabs.ChildrenDocumentationCheckpointPlanningCommunicationReports

Adding children/classrooms You need the children tab

Start by clicking on the “Manage Classroom” words which moves the screen to “Add a class”.

Give a class name

Select Preschool Band and click Submit

Click on add children

Once you add children you can’t delete class until you delete the children

Dashboard continuedGo to class list at the leftIt defaults to select all-but can select only

certain children

Documentation Tab Add Documentation Tab

View Documentation

Search Documentation

Forms

The type of evidence you wantFirst you have to identify type of evidence:

General Documentation

On the Spot Documentation

Assessment Opportunity cards

To add documentation Put in your date by clicking the calendar

You can attach any documentation you want by clicking on the browse button and looking for the picture/scanned item in your computer.

Then select objectives and dimension related to this evidence for each child

Click save and you can see what you documented

GOLD TOOLSOn-the –Spot Observation Recording Tool

This is an optional tool to use

Practical checklist that captures information about children quickly

Streamlines the documentation process

Use when you are involved with children and need to note a date when a behavior or skill was observed.

On the Spot Observation Recording Tool

It is available on-line under the Documentation Tab

Talk with your table about how you could use this tool in your classroom

Gold ToolsAssessment Opportunity Cards

These are optional

10 developmentally appropriate activities that can be integrated into everyday classroom

Experiences to help teachers focus their observations on specific skills and collect specific information related to particular objectives

Assessment Opportunity CardsThese cards are available on-line under the

documentation tab, over to the right under “Resources”

Get into groups of 2 or 3 and choose an activity card

How could you use in this in your classroom?

CheckpointThis is where you enter your ratings for

children in your class

Checkpoint by one of 3 ways :AreaObjectiveChild

Checkpoint continuedGray boxes shows you have not started

Gold boxes show you have started

Blue boxes you have completed but not finalized results

Checkmarks show it has been finalized

More on Checkpoint by AreaYou can enter by clicking a box which takes

you to the color progressionClick on the link and scroll down to show

documentationYou click next dimension when done

inputting and the information is automatically saved

Checkpoint by objectiveSee the area-click the plus sign to expand the

objective

Class list on left, dimension on right

Click on the objective to select level

Checkpoint by ChildClick on the child’s nameTo change, click change on the sideSelect levels on the dimensionYou can move information before you finalizeIt is up to your program to finalize dataClick on box to finalize or you can un-finalizeThere is support/resources on the side

Checkpoint by Child continuedThere are no developmental progressions for

the areas:Science and TechnologyArtSocial Studies

Each program needs to develop their own criteria at this time

Check point by multiple children Makes it easier to complete checkpoint data

on several children at once.

U-tube has videos to support this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39F5C-UtKSc&list=PLFA7EE5A3D1FF3C60&index=2&feature=plpp_video&noredirect=1

Planning Click on planning tab to get the weekly

planning form which has the week, the project/study, who created it, and whether it has been submitted or not

You can: edit the formsView/print the forms

View print individual child planning Submit to administrator

ArchiveDelete

Weekly Planning form Click on the new form tab Select weekly planning form for preschool The planning form addresses:

▪ Interest areas▪ Large group▪ Small group▪ Read aloud▪ Individual child planning▪ Outdoor experiences▪ Special activities▪ Family partnerships▪ To do list▪ Reflecting on the week

Weekly planning form-Adding activitiesYou can identify the days you want the

activity to take place.5 ways to do activities

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CommunicationThere are 6 parts to this tab

MessagesFamily Conference formInvite Team MembersInvite family membersFamily newsletters Calendars

CommunicationYou can invite family members to join into

GOLD so they can see their child’s progress

There is an automatic letter you can send inviting parents to be a part of this system and giving parents the link to Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies instructs parents on how to gain access to the GOLD Online

Messaging centerIf a child has a family member who has been

accepted to receive classroom messages-they can receive the message.

Gives families information of what is going on in the classroom.

Preparing for ConferencesThe Family Conference form is under the

Communication Tab

There are 2 tutorials to help you fill out the forms

The family conference formThere are 3 parts to the family conference

form: 1. Strengths in soc/emotional, physical, language, and cognitive development

2. Strengths in learning literacy, math, science and technology, social studies, and the arts

3. Plan for this child's development and learning

ReportsThere are a variety to use

3 types of “Quick reports”

Class profile

Individual child

Development and learning-Recommended for parents

Using GOLD with students with disabilities

The color coded age bands show typical development and that variation

There are in-between steps for each progression to show emerging skills or need for more support

For students with more severe disabilities, GOLD may not be the only assessment needed to determine programming

How will English-language learners be assessed using GOLD? A Home Language Survey -4 questions to

complete. There is a tenth area of development and

learning on English-language acquisition, 2 dedicated objectives in receptive and

expressive language. Ability to assess dual-language learner's progress

in Spanish oral language and literacy. Children are able to show what they know and

can do in other areas of development and learning without the use of English e.g., counting in any language.

Documentation is to be:Strength based

About progress

Written positively

Power of Observation ArticleShare with the people at your table:

One thing you are already doing for documentation that was mentioned in the article

At least one new idea you got from the article you are going to try

Technology Tools I-phones and AndroidsI-PadsTeaching Strategies Facebook PageTeaching Strategies BlogWebinarsU-tube

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