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Teaching Strategies GOLD online offers a revolutionary approach to early childhood assessment. It is an assessment tool available to teachers that is user-friendly and inclusive—one that enables them to increase the effectiveness of their assessments while having more time to spend with children. It’s easy to use, it’s effective, and it works—saving teachers time and helping them be confident in their assessment decisions.
Helps Early Educators Focus on What Matters Most
Teaching Strategies GOLD can be used with any developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum and is based on 38 research-based objectives that include predictors of school success and are aligned with the Common Core State Standards, state early learning guidelines, and the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework. These help teachers focus on what matters most for children’s success.
Supports All Learners
Teaching Strategies GOLD can be used to support all types of learners, including children with special needs and children with advanced knowledge and skills.
Fully Bilingual: English and Spanish
Because Teaching Strategies GOLD is a fully bilingual tool, it offers teachers support for assessing the dual-language learners in their classrooms who are learning English and Spanish.
User-Friendly Features
With user-friendly features such as research summaries, color-coded progressions of development and learning, online portfolios, and easy-to-generate, state-of-the-art reports, Teaching Strategies GOLD online saves teachers time and helps eliminate some of the common challenges associated with assessment.
With Teaching Strategies GOLD online, teachers can:
- use a variety of online tools to gather and organize meaningful data quickly, including online portfolios where children’s work can be stored
- create a developmental profile of each child to answer the questions, “What does this child know? What is he or she able to do?”
- understand how their observations relate to important objectives for development and learning and use that understanding to scaffold each child’s learning
- determine if a child is making progress and compare the child’s knowledge, skills, and behaviors to those of most children of his or her age or class/group
- recognize children who might benefit from special help, screening, or further evaluation
- generate comprehensive reports that can be customized easily and shared with family members and other stakeholders; to learn more about this state-of-the-art feature, download our Teaching Strategies GOLD online Reports Brochure. (PDF)
Support For Head Start Programs
Head Start programs use Child Management Systems (CMS) such as ChildPlus.net to manage program data including data specific to children, classrooms, sites, and programs. A bridge connecting ChildPlus.net and Teaching Strategies GOLD allows for seamless data exchange between both systems. Administrators enter data once into ChildPlus.net and see the same information imported into Teaching Strategies GOLD online.
In addition, administrators can use ChildPlus.net to add, update and archive records for their programs, significantly reducing the data entry workload as well as increasing accuracy between both ChildPlus and Teaching Strategies GOLD. Accuracy between both systems provides for more informative and precise Head Start reports that can be used to improve classroom planning and the overall quality of a program.
More Information
Look inside Teaching Strategies GOLD in our Touring Guide. (PDF)
Look inside Teaching Strategies GOLD online reports in our Reports Brochure (PDF)
GOLD Online System Requirements
View the system requirements for using Teaching Strategies GOLD, online version. (PDF)
GOLD Fast Facts for Decision Makers
Read our Teaching Strategies GOLD FAQs. (PDF)
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Kai-leé Berke, MA, is the Chief Product Officer at Teaching Strategies. She has taught and cared for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners in public, private, and Department of Defense programs. Before joining Teaching Strategies she was the program administrator for a multisite preschool organization. In addition to her local and national work as an early childhood trainer and consultant, she has served as an adjunct faculty member at Honolulu Community College and Pacific Oaks College. She is a co-author of many Teaching Strategies resources, including the Teaching Strategies GOLD® assessment system; The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool; and The Creative Curriculum for Infants, Toddlers & Twos. |
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Cate Heroman, MEd, has worked in the field of education for over 35 years. She has been a preschool and kindergarten teacher as well as an administrator at the Louisiana Department of Education, providing leadership, training, technical assistance, and support in the areas of early childhood and elementary education. She is a co-author of many Teaching Strategies resources, including the Teaching Strategies GOLD® assessment system; The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool; The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum Assessment Toolkit for Ages 3–5; Helping Children Rebound: Strategies for Preschool Teachers After the 2005 Hurricanes; Building Your Baby’s Brain; Literacy: The Creative Curriculum Approach, and numerous others. |
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Diane C. Burts, EdD, is a former preschool, Head Start, kindergarten, and university teacher, as well as professor emeritus of human ecology at Louisiana State University. She is former director of the LSU Preschool Laboratory, Grace Drews Lehmann professor, and division head of family, child, and consumer sciences. She was the endowed chair and director of the Emma Eccles Jones Center for Early Childhood Education at Utah State University. Dr. Burts is co-editor of the book Integrated Curriculum and Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Birth to Age Eight. |
Teaching Strategies GOLD® is based on extensive research about the most effective ways to conduct early childhood assessment. Download our reports and research foundation papers, below, for more information about the research base of our comprehensive resources.
- Concurrent Validity of Teaching Strategies GOLD (PDF)
- The Teaching Strategies Criteria Report (PDF)
- Teaching Strategies GOLD Growth Norms Technical Summary (PDF)
- Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System Technical Summary 2013 (PDF)
- Evaluation of Two Observational Assessment Systems for Children’s Development and Learning (PDF)
- Using Teacher Ratings to Track the Growth and Development of Young Children Using the Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (PDF)
- Evidence of the Validity of Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment Tool for English Language Learners and Children with Disabilities (PDF)
Research Foundation Papers
- Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System (PDF)
GOLD Fast Facts for Decision Makers
Read our Teaching Strategies GOLD FAQs. (PDF)
Complete list of our research showing the link between curriculum and assessment.
Teaching Strategies GOLD® is aligned with state and national early learning standards and guidelines. Please select the relevant alignment document from the list below to download the documents in PDF. If you do not see the alignment you want, please revisit this page at a later date or contact a member of our Customer Solutions Team.
Army
- August 2013 Army Child, Youth & School Services Strong Beginnings Pre-K Program: Early Learning Standards for Children Entering Kindergarten (PDF)
Common Core State Standards
- June 2013 Common Core State Standards (PDF)
- December 2012 Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects (Kindergarten) (PDF)
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July 2012 Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (Kindergarten) (PDF)
Department of Defense
- August 2013 U.S. DoDEA, Early Childhood Education Content Standards (PDF)
- April 2011 Department of Defense Education Activity Standards for Pre-Kindergarten (PDF)
Hatch Early Learning
Head Start
- July 2013 Early Head Start- School Readiness Goals for Infants and Toddlers (PDF)
- August 2013 The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old (PDF)
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May 2012 The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old in Spanish (PDF)
- September 2012 The School Readines Goals for Infants and Toddlers in Head Start and Early Head Start Programs (PDF)
Puerto Rico
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December 2011: Estándares de contenido y expectativas de grado: Educación para la niñez (desde el nacimiento hasta 4 años y 11 meses) (PDF)
Guam