CLASS tool
Assessments vs. Screening
Fostering Connections
Zoning and Transitions
Extending Conversations
100
Classroom Assessment Scoring System
What is CLASS?
100
ASQ (Ages and Stages)
What is a screening tool?
100
Thumbs up, Way to go, Great idea, you're amazing, and you did it!
What is praise?
100
A strategy used in classrooms to organize teachers and the classroom environment.
What is Zoning?
100
Adding new vocabulary to words children already know.
What is extending children's language?
200
Emotional Support Domain
What is the domain that relates to Social Emotional Support?
200
TS GOLD
What is an ongoing assessment?
200
Essential for child learning and school readiness
What is positive relationships?
200
This helps keep the day predictable for all.
What is a daily schedule?
200
Explain your thought process and introduce new concepts or skills.
What is encouraging higher level thinking?
300
Emotional Support, Classroom Organizations, and Instructional Support
What are the three CLASS domains?
300
Includes both Informal and Formal
What is an Assessment?
300
Each moment in early childhood setting when teachers and children interact.
What is an opportunity to develop positive relationships?
300
Children to move from one activity or setting to another.
What is transition(s)?
300
The who, what, when, where, why, and how questions.
What are open ended thinking questions?
400
Low, Middle, and High range
What are the three scoring ranges on CLASS?
400
This involves initial testing children in basic health and developmental areas including hearing, vision, coordination, speech, cognitive development, and social and emotional skills.
What is a screening?
400
Play a significant role in influencing young children’s social and emotional development.
What is teacher-child relationships?
400
Both benefit from zoning.
Who are teachers and children?
400
A learning process designed to promote a deeper level of learning.
What is scaffolding?
500
Eleven
What is the number of CLASS dimensions?
500
Ongoing
What is an Assessment?
500
ask questions, listen, incorporate child's interest, play and laugh together
What is fostering connections?
500
Physical space, classroom contents, and groupings.
What is classroom design or set up?
500
Question, observe, predict, experiment, and discuss.
What is using the Scientific Method?