Teaching Strategies GOLD Objectives for Development and Learning
Birth through Kindergarten
Social - Emotional
1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
3. Participate cooperatively and constructively in group situations
Physical
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
Language
8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
9. Uses Language to express thoughts and needs
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
Cognitive
11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
12. Remembers and connects experiences
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
Literacy
15. Demonstrates phonological awareness
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
18. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
19. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
Mathematics
20. Uses number concepts and operations
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
22. Compares and measures
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
Science and Technology
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment
28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
Social Studies
29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
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 expressions
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
36. Explores drama through actions and language
English Language Acquisition
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English
Assessments