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Your Professional Development Advisor (PDA) will help you put a plan together, and answer questions about these resources: Ongoing training and professional development gives providers and teachers skills to offer the high-quality learning environments and interactions needed to prepare children for school. Learn more about the Rating process and requirements for licensed, unaccredited child care. The program standards, combined with the Parent Aware Indicators, are also knows as the Parent Aware “kindergarten readiness best practices.” There are five broad quality Categories used to identify best practices in child care and early education programs: Teaching and Relationships with Children, Relationships with Families, Assessment of Young Children, Professionalism, and Health and Well-Being. Parent Aware provides a common set of program standards for child care and early education programs. Not sure if you should be on the Full-Rating Pathway? Read more about the Rating Pathways. If you haven’t joined Parent Aware and don’t have a Coach, go to our Join Us page to connect with the right person. How consistent are they? A research study comparing Stallings and CLASS measures for a sample of teachers in Chile found that the two instruments were well correlated in the area of overlap.The forms, samples, policies, and resources below help licensed family child care and center-based programs taking the Full-Rating Pathway.Ĭontact your Quality Coach if you have any questions about the Rating process or these forms. One of the CLASS domains – classroom organization – overlaps with the teacher behaviors measured by Stallings. How consistent are Stallings and CLASS observations? More information about CLASS is available here. However, videotaped observations have several advantages, including the possibility of multiple coding to increase reliability, and downstream use of the videos for teacher training or other analysis.
In a recent study in Chile, videography costs were on the order of $100 per classroom. This increases the costs of conducting CLASS observations. In such settings, it is usually impossible to train a sufficient number of observers to carry out live observations of teachers instead, teachers are videotaped by professional videographers and the tapes are subsequently coded by a small team of highly-trained experts. This has limited its use in developing country research settings. As a result, CLASS is more appropriate for evaluations of teacher performance that have stakes for teachers’ careers.īut a very high level of sophistication and training is required to produce observers capable of making consistent qualitative judgements using CLASS. CLASS captures key dimensions of teacher quality such as teachers’ content mastery and the quality of teachers’ feedback and questions to students that cannot be measured by Stallings. The advantage of the CLASS instrument over the Stallings method is that CLASS generates a more complete assessment of teacher performance. Pianta’s research and other applications have found that scores across the three dimensions are highly correlated (Pianta, Hamre & Mintz, 2012). Thus, each teacher receives domain scores as well as an overall score on a scale of 1-7. Figure 2 provides an example of the specific guidance for one dimension, the “productivity” dimension of the classroom organization domain.įor each behavior, the CLASS protocol gives coders concrete guidance on whether the score given should be “low” (scores of 1-2), “medium” (scores of 3-5), or “high” (scores of 6-7). During those periods, they follow rubrics that guide them to look for very specific behaviors in each dimension. Each dimension is rated on a scale of 1-7.ĬLASS observers typically select two 20-25 minute segments of the class to apply the instrument. A 12th dimension measured in CLASS observations is “student engagement”, measured by observing the students. The CLASS instrument defines 11 specific dimensions underlying the three domains (Figure 1).
It produces qualitative ratings of teacher performance on a scale from 1-7 across three broad domains: emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support. The Classroom Assessment Scoring System, developed by Robert Pianta at the University of Virginia is a tool for analyzing the quality of teacher-student interactions in the classroom.
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