Ongoing Child Assessment: Overview
This in-service suite provides an overview of the role ongoing assessment plays in supporting quality teaching and learning.
Child Screening and Assessment
Screening and assessment provide valuable information about each child's interests, strengths, and needs. Screening gives a snapshot of whether the child's development is on track. Assessment is an ongoing process that includes observation and provides information about development over time. Systematic, ongoing child assessment provides information on children's development and learning. It helps inform curriculum planning, teaching, and individualizing for each child across all Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains.
Measuring What Children Can Do in All Languages: Developmental Assessment for Children Who Are Dual Language Learners
Explore typical bilingual development in the early years and learn what it means to assess children who are dual language learners.
Screening Dual Language Learners in Head Start Programs: A Guide for Program Leaders
Read this guide that includes a worksheet designed for Early Head Start and Head Start teams. It helps ensure that their screening process provides the best possible results for all children, including dual language learners (DLLs).
Planning for Assessment
This in-service suite describes how teachers can plan efficiently for conducting ongoing assessment of children's learning in the preschool classroom.
Collecting and Using Work Samples
This in-service suite describes how to collect and use work samples to document children's learning in the preschool classroom.
Collecting and Using Video
There are many ways teachers can use video in a classroom. Explore this in-service suite to learn how to use it to collect information to document child progress.
Partnering with Families
This in-service suite describes ways to work in partnership with families in order to facilitate ongoing child assessment.
Ongoing Child Assessment
These 15-minute In-service Suites are a professional development resource for staff in busy, active early childhood centers and programs. They are organized around one topic or big idea and address effective teaching and assessment practices.