Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Objectives for Development & Learning
SocialEmotional
Cognitive
1.
11.
Regulates own emotions and behaviors
a. Manages feelings
b. Follows limits and expectations
c. Takes care of own needs appropriately
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
a. Forms relationships with adults
b. Responds to emotional cues
c. Interacts with peers
d. Makes friends
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in
group situations
a. Balances needs and rights of self and others
b. Solves social problems
Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
a. Attends and engages
b. Persists
c. Solves problems
d. Shows curiosity and motivation
e. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
12. Remembers and connects experiences
a. Recognizes and recalls
b. Makes connections
13. Uses classification skills
Physical
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something
not present
a. Thinks symbolically
b. Engages in sociodramatic play
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
Literacy
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
15.
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and
coordination
a. Uses fingers and hands
b. Uses writing and drawing tools
Language
8. Listens to and understands increasingly
complex language
a. Comprehends language
b. Follows directions
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
a. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
b. Speaks clearly
c. Uses conventional grammar
d. Tells about another time or place
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other
communication skills
a. Engages in conversations
b. Uses social rules of language
Demonstrates phonological awareness
a. Notices and discriminates rhyme
b. Notices and discriminates alliteration
c. Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller
units of sound
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
a. Identifies and names letters
b. Uses lettersound knowledge
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
a. Uses and appreciates books
b. Uses print concepts
18. Comprehends and responds to books and
other texts
a. Interacts during read-alouds and book
conversations
b. Uses emergent reading skills
c. Retells stories
19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
a. Writes name
b. Writes to convey meaning
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Teaching Strategies GOLD Assessment System
Objectives for Development & Learning, continued
Mathematics
Social Studies
20. Uses number concepts and operations
a. Counts
b. Quantifies
c. Connects numerals with their quantities
29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships
and shapes
a. Understands spatial relationships
b. Understands shapes
22. Compares and measures
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
30. Shows basic understanding of people and how
they live
31. Explores change related to familiar people
or places
32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
The Arts
33. Explores the visual arts
34. Explores musical concepts and expression
Science and Technology
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
36. Explores drama through actions and language
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics
of living things
English Language Acquisition
26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical
properties of objects and materials
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earths environment
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and
understanding English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English
28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
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