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GOLD®
GOLD® 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
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
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 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, GOLD® saves teachers time and helps eliminate some of the common challenges associated with assessment.
With GOLD®, teachers can:
More Information
Look inside GOLD® in our Touring Guide. (English | Spanish)
Look inside GOLD® online reports in our Reports Brochure (PDF)
GOLD® System Requirements
View the system requirements for using GOLD®. (PDF)
GOLD Fast Facts for Decision Makers
Read our GOLD® FAQs. (PDF)
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Kai-leé Berke, MA, is the Chief Executive 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 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. |
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.
Research Foundation Papers
GOLD® Fast Facts for Decision Makers
Read our GOLD® FAQs. (PDF)
Complete list of our research showing the link between curriculum and assessment.
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
Common Core State Standards
Department of Defense
Hatch Early Learning
Head Start
Puerto Rico
Guam
