MEFS
Minnesota Executive Function Scale
What are the MEFS?
Preschool Language Scale
What is the PLS?
100
What is the goal we want to reach?
Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale
What is ITERS?
Classroom Assessment Scoring System
What is CLASS?
These skills underlie the capacity to plan ahead and meet goals, display self-control, follow multiple-step directions even when interrupted, and stay focused despite distractions, among others.
What are Executive Function Skills?
An interactive assessment of developmental language skills.
What is PLS?
Guide teachers planning, support school and family partnerships and provide Information for Evaluating Program Quality and Inform Policy.
Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales
What is ECERS?
Is an observation instrument that assesses the quality of teacher-child interactions in center-based preschool classrooms.
What is The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)?
Executive function skills are the root of both of these abilities.
What is academic success and social-emotional competence?
The process by which children come to understand and communicate.
What is Language Development?
The practice of continuously monitoring children’s development and responding to learning needs, administrators can determine specific areas of program need and identify teacher and staff professional development to improve their ability to support all students
What is quality early childhood program?
Is a classroom assessment tool designed to measure the quality of group programs for infants and toddlers (birth to age 3) by collecting data through classroom observations and a staff interview.
What is ITERS?
Emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support.
What are the three domains for pre-K (ages 3-5) age level, the CLASS tool?
100
What is the goal of the MEFS score?
100
What is the goal of the PLS score?
Helps teachers communicate important milestones in students’ development to families and provides opportunity for teachers and parents to work together to support children as they grow.
What are Assessments that Support School and Family Partnerships?
Is a 39-item rating scale organized into seven environmental subscales.
What is The ITERS scale?
Creating an environment in which they’re comfortable to tell you how they feel results in happier, more confident children who are ready to learn.
What is positive climate?
Is responding appropriately to another person’s spoken language.
What is Receptive language?
To evaluate the scope of a child's comprehension of language. Includes recall, reasoning, and making inferences. It is the most complex auditory ability
What is Auditory Comprehension?
Observing children, assessing them and teaching are inseparable processes. When children are assessed as part of the teaching-learning process, then observation and assessment information tells caregivers and teachers what each child can do and what he or she is ready to learn next.
What is Data Collection through Observation?
Should be completed 2(twice) a year.
What is the ITERS/ECERS assessment?
These kind of questions can start interesting conversations that you can contribute to by expanding vocabulary.
What are open-ended questions?