Data Collection 101
Often written as the result of ongoing observations but may also be written in response to a product or performance the student has completed.
What are anecdotal notes/records?
For this SKB students at level D follow along or repeat parts of nursery rhymes or simple songs when listening to them. At Level 3, they can actually say a word that rhymes with a given word.
What are Rhyming Words?
For these SKBs students can remember and act in accordance with multiple classrooms rules with visual and auditory cues and works independently to complete an activity from start to finish.
What is Following Directions and Persisting with Tasks?
This score is reserved for a student who is NOT demonstrating ANY of the previous descriptor levels within a SKB. Beware of the Gray!
What is Not Evident?
In PGCPS we finalize ELA data this many times a year.
What is 3 times a year?
Refer to these directions for specific recommendations about how to focus your observation. Pay close attention to the level descriptors and examples for each SKBs. Think about other examples of behavior that might be observed at each level.
What are the Early Learning Assessment Observational Rubrics?
Students who demonstrate readiness in this SKB verbally count to 10 and then develop rote counting to 20 by ones. Be careful not skip 14, 15, or 16 in order to earn FULL credit...
What are Number Words?
The teacher collected evidence for these SKBs when Lauren wrote the numerals from 0 to 20 and said each number name as she wrote it: “Zero, one, two, three . . . twenty.”
What are Numeral Identification and Number Words?
This rating option is reserved for those students who can not access the SKB due to a disability.
What is Not Scorable?
These are the months in which we finalize ELA data that is used to communicate with students and their families.
What is November, January, and June?
A free web service developed for schools that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. This service is provided by PGCPS to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers, students, and their families.
What is Google Classroom?
For this SKB the teacher collected a work sample from Keith. He drew three different pictures to represent the three major events of a story. He then described each picture, saying, “First the boy went out on a sunny day, then it rained, and last he took a hot bath.”
What is Retell a Text?
Being able to recognize 1-5 objects in a set without counting is easy for students in this SKB. They can identify 1-3 objects in an unfamiliar pattern and 4 or 5 objects in a familiar pattern.
What is subitizing?
If a child is frequently absent and you have not been able to gather accurate data to inform ratings you should follow this 4 step procedure
What is Speak to your Admin, Schedule a SIT meeting, Determine a level rating if possible, Add comments on the report card?
In order to input ratings and evidence for the ELA you must have access to this online system and application.
What is the Welcome to Kindergarten Online System and ELA Web App?
Use different colored highlighters or pens to mark the skills that students have learned throughout the year. Look ahead to the next set of goals and type up a list for each child. Consult these lists as you follow the teaching and learning cycle.
What are Developmental Milestone Charts/Checklists?
For this SKB Anna asked, "How do I spell 'sun?," The teacher told her to try to sound it out. Anna slowly said each sound: "/s/, /u/, /n/." Then she put the sounds together, saying "sun." Later during the small group, the teacher asked Anna to try to put the sounds "/d/","/o/," and "/g/" together. She said "dog."
What is Syllables/Onsets and Rimes/Phonemes?
For this SKB a student entering kindergarten picked up a bin containing cars and trucks of different sizes. She dumped the bin onto the carpet and sorted the vehicles into four piles: Big cars and small cars then Big trucks and small trucks
What is Sorting and Classifying
These levels represent a child’s progress between three years of age and kindergarten entry.
What are Levels 2-3, Progress Towards Kindergarten Entry
In PGCPS, Prek teachers will send report cards to families this many times a year to communicate student progress and development.
What is twice?
Photos, audio, and video samples to view and evaluate with your students. They are also easy to share with parents using email or a parent communication apps that works for your classroom.
What are Digital Portfolios
In this SKB students use words such as greater than/more than, less than, and equal to/same (limit category counts to less than 5).
What is Comparing and Describing?
The teacher collected evidence for this SKB by listening to Daniel talk to Mariel about his age. Daniel said, “Before I was five, I was four. Next I’ll be six, and then after that I’ll be seven.” Mariel then wrote the numbers 5, 4, 6, and 7.
What is Number Concepts and Numeral ID/Writing?
These ratings illustrate the skills typical of an infant aged 0-36 months old. Typically, children within this range will require additional interventions and support to reach grade-level expectations.
What are Levels A-D, Developmental levels preceding Level 1
This document can be found on the Early Childhood site and should be referred to during M.O.Y. if you have a student who illustrates skills typical of a 0-36 months old.
What is the Preschool ChildFind Guidance Document?