A Developmental Screening is performed on each enrolled child during the first 45 days of school.  The results of the Developmental Screening will be shared with families during the first Parent/Teacher Conference is October. .  

Teaching Strategies Gold is an authentic, rewarding, and observational ongoing assessment system for children from birth through kindergarten. The preliminary purposes of the Teaching Strategies Gold assessment system are to help teachers:

• 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

• guide program planning 

• drive teachers instruction through individualization and differentiation

Child development and learning is complex. It would be overwhelming to attempt to measure every skill and behavior that children demonstrate within the early years. The Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system measures the knowledge, skills, and behaviors that are most predictive of school success. Thirty-six objectives are organized into nine areas of development and learning. The first major areas of child development and learning are:

• Physical

• Language

• Cognitive

The content learning that is usually identified in early learning standards is organized in the following five areas: 

• Literacy

• Mathematics

• Science and Technology

• Social Studies

• The Arts 

Teachers observe and collect facts, analyze the documentation they have collected, and then scaffold children's learning through planning instruction. Teachers evaluate each child's progress, summarize, plan for, and communicate children's progress to families. Although assessment is ongoing and teachers use what they learn each day, teachers pause three times a year to review what they have learned and to summarize a child's skills and behaviors at those points in time.