Watch this webinar on TS Gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFs7Ux5zyhwTeaching Strategies Gold (TSGold) Overview (Links to an external site.)
Introduction to TS Gold by Teaching Strategies for Washington DC public school early learning teams. Stop at 14:45.
WA state has adopted the TS Gold assessment tool to measure development of children. Many Head Start and ECEAP programs use this tool as well as some licensed child care programs. It is essential that you become familiar with this tool as you will most likely come into contact with using it or needing to analyze data from it in your career as an early childhood professional.
Watch the webinar about the TS Gold assessment tool (written for DC public schools) and write a reflection. Think of this as a guest lecture on this topic. It will give you a great overview of this product. This is a tool you might use in your work place.
For your reflection please answer the following questions:
If you prefer to format your reflection using Google slides or PowerPoint, or a graphic organizer (chart) that is your choice. Select the format for your reflection that works best for you.
Be sure you include answers to all of the following questions. Each answer should be at least 3 sentences long.
What were the main points of the webinar?
What are the parts of TS Gold?
How would TS Gold be a useful assessment tool for teachers, children, families and programs?
What are the strengths of TS Gold?
What challenges do you think there are in TS Gold?
Have you had any experience with this tool, where? If so, what is your assessment of it? How have you found it useful and/or difficult?
Reflect on how TS Gold fits with what you have learned about assessment so far in this class.
