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Child Outcomes: Preschool Entry to Exit

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"The goal of early intervention and early childhood special education is to enable young children with disabilities to be active and successful participants during their early childhood years and in the future. States collect, analyze, and use data on three child outcomes to measure individual child and family progress toward improved results and to improve their systems and services." -Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center

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ECTA Poster of Three Child Outcomes Skills accessible version link on the poster

Child Outcomes include:

  • Child has positive social-emotional skills (e.g., social relationships)
  • Child acquires and uses knowledge and skills (e.g., early language/communication, math)
  • Child uses appropriate behaviors to meet their needs (e.g., self-care, dressing)

 

What are the areas that are assessed within each outcome area? The ECTA offers a poster that shows the skills within the Social Emotional, Knowledge and Skills, and Behavior to Meet Needs areas (ECTA Poster Accessible Version, Spanish version). 

Child Outcomes Data Preschool Special Education 2014-2019

Schools that enroll preschool aged children with disabilities are required to report their children's progress in each of three outcome areas: Positive Social Emotional Skills, Acquisition and Use of Knowledge and Skills, and Use of Appropriate Behaviors to Meet Their Needs. Arizona currently uses one tool to document this progress, Teaching Strategies GOLD. Teachers and caregivers are able to share information regarding children's skills across each domain of learning and record their observations as soon as the children start school. Over time, children's progress on learning areas such as literacy, math, physical, and social-emotional skills are recorded and used to inform teachers' instructional practices and program effectiveness. This data is used in the state's Annual Performance Report for Indicator 7.

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Teaching Strategies phone app supports descriptions of observations, photos, documentation by date
TSG Checkpoint Due Dates for 2022-23 School Year
PeriodStart DateEnd DateCheckpoint due Date:
Fall7/21/202210/07/202210/07/2022
Winter10/08/202202/03/202302/03/2023
Spring02/04/202306/02/202306/02/2023
Summer (ESY)06/03/202307/19/202307/19/2023

 

Teachers collaborate with families and other practitioners by observing children's skills remotely and in person and gather information from families and other practitioners to be able to report a comprehensive view of children's skills over the course of the school year. The Technical Assistance document, "Parent and Teacher Shared Observations Activities" can help to facilitate conversations between practitioners and families. It provides examples of targeted skills, identifies opportunities for gathering information, and encourages activities that would support acquisition of the skills.  Parents have had positive reviews of this tool and the opportunities it affords.

Objectives for Development and Learning, Birth Through Third Grade

Exiting Children from Teaching Strategies Gold to Report Child Outcomes

Training events for the current school year are located on our events page, or download the TSG Training dates flyer which also contains all of the upcoming dates at a glance. 

Many Training Opportunities for staff using Teaching Strategies Gold

TSG training schedule image of the flyer

 

 

Page revised 8/2/21

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From the Exceptional Student Services Blog

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT: Special Education Data Updates Webinar Wednesday, February 15th Thu, Jan 26 2023 Data Management, Updates

DATA MANAGEMENT ALERT       

Special Education Data Updates Webinar Wednesday, February 15th 

   The Exceptional Student Services Data Management team will host the next Special Education Data Updates live webinar on Wednesday, February 15th, from 2pm – 3pm. This session will cover a variety of data topics that will include (subject to change):   

  • Reminders 
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  • Top 3 Integrity Errors 
  • Q&A        

SPED RECRUITMENT & RETENTION UPDATE: GETSET/SETTA Applications now available! Due February 24, 2023 Mon, Jan 23 2023 Professional Learning and Sustainability, Updates

Special Education Directors,

The ADE/ESS Professional Learning and Sustainability unit is pleased to announce two “grow your own” opportunities for educators in Arizona public schools.

  • The General Education Teacher to Special Education Teacher (GETSET) program provides tuition reimbursement to certified general education teachers who want to pursue a career change to become certified in an area of special education. 
     
  • The Special Education Teacher Tuition Assistance (SETTA) program provides tuition reimbursement to paraprofessionals and educational interpreters that leads to special education teaching certification.

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