1. TS Gold Training
9/10/18

2. Good Things
Share a high point/victory of the school year so far

3. During the WIDA Screener testing window
for being
STAR TESTERS
During the WIDA Screener testing window WE
APPRECIATE YOU!!

4. What Are We Doing Today? Intro to TS Gold Testing Nirvana Walk-through
Proctor Requirements
Site Assignments/Details
Review Objectives and Documentation Examples
TS Gold Website Walk-through
Testing Website Additions
Wrap-up
Launch

5. What is TS Gold? Teaching Strategies Gold
School Readiness Observations
Authentic Assessment
Checklists/Rubrics for 31 School Readiness skills
Required by the state
Live groups – Up to 10 students
Online groups – Up to 5 students

6. What students will be coming?
TESTING NIRVANA
s go out this week
TEACHERS ON-SITE need to make those confirmation calls.
Every student must meet EVERY objective.
IN-PERSON is our BEST choice.
If Objectives are skipped, we won’t get credit for that student!!

7. Testing Nirvana Walkthrough
Confirming Students
Reschedules
Taking Attendance

8. Proctor Calendar Testing takes place AFTER Blended from 12-2.
Proctor Calendar Link:
2 tabs
Proctor schedule
Materials Exchange Plan

9. Tab 1-
Proctor Calendar
Tab 2 –
Materials Exchange Plan

10. Interrater Reliability Certification

11. What’s In The Box?? 2 iPads with TS Gold Documentation app installed
Sign-in sheet
Parent Permission forms allowing video/picture documentation recording
Name tags/Different colored markers
Rules page
Story Books
Vocabulary Cards – What is it? How do you use it?
Toys – Blocks, Puzzles
Tracing Paper
* Feel free to bring other items from home if you would like for these tasks

12. For Each Site You Decide As A Team…
Who will be:
Confirming and rescheduling students in TN?
Having parents sign in student and fill out permission form?
Running activities?
Recording documentation and observations?
Responsible for the materials?

13. What do I have to do on site?
Have each family sign in and complete forms.
Put name tags on the kids.
Take attendance in TN.
Notify me about absent students for reschedule
Go over the rules.
Monitor Throughout:
Social/Behavioral Objectives
5 Activities:
Read Aloud
Simon Says
Vocabulary
Group Play
Writing
*Can be done in any order*

14. These can happen throughout the testing day.
Obj. 1c: Takes care of own needs appropriately.
-Watch for: asking permission to go to the bathroom or get a drink,
-Getting supplies/materials on their own
-Asking for help when needed
-Taking responsibility for his/her actions
Obj. 2b: Responds to emotional cues
-Watch for: compassion for other students
-Identify why someone feels that way (Why is ____ happy/sad/mad?)
Obj. 11d: Demonstrates positive approaches to learning by showing curiosity and motivation.
-Watch for: wanting to be involved in activities
-Engages in activities
-Shows enthusiasm for learning new things
Obj. 12b: Makes connections
-Watch for: responds to quiet signal
-Remembers routines/rules
-Relates new experience (class) to known experiences (at home)
These can happen throughout the testing day.

15. Simon Says Obj. 4: Demonstrates traveling skills.
-Watch for: can move in different ways—walk, jump, crawl. . .
-Moves from place to place with control
-Coordination with increasingly complex movements (spin your arms & jump)
Obj. 5: Demonstrates balancing skills.
-Watch for: Jump over small objects, Walk on a line, Hop on one foot
-How is their balance?
Obj. 6: Gross Motor manipulation skills (blocks or balls)
-Watch for: range of motion when they manipulate balls or other objects
Obj. 21a: Understands spatial relationships
-Watch for: following directions about location (over, under, near, below)
Simon Says
Play Simon Says or other group games. Watch for their motor skills—running, walking, balancing, changing directions. Also watch for their spatial awareness/prepositions (over, near, far, next to, under, behind)

16. Vocabulary Obj. 9a: Uses an expanding and expressive vocabulary
-Name an object.
-Describe how to use it.
-Use advanced/mature vocabulary.
Obj. 9c: Use conventional grammar
-Do they speak in 3-4 word sentences?
-Do they speak in 4-6 word sentences?
-Do they use correct pronouns (he/she him/her) and verbs?
Obj. 9d: Tells about another time or place
-Tells stories about other times and places that have a logical order and details (It could be telling about what they did yesterday, retelling a cartoon they’ve seen, or a story they’ve made up.)
Vocabulary
What is it? game. Students choose a card and describe the object and how to use it.
Tell me a story game - tell a short story about an object or person.

17. Read Aloud Time Obj. 17a: Uses and appreciates books and texts.
-Watch for: can hold a book the right way
-Knows features of a book (where’s the title, author, cover?)
Obj. 18a: Interacts during reading experiences.
-Watch for: answers questions about a story
-Engages in teacher-led reading activities
-Uses print & illustrations to retell & to make connections
Obj. 18c: Retells stories and recounts details from text
-Watch for: Can retell a familiar story using pictures from the book
-(The more details they retell and the more difficult the text, the higher they score.)
Read Aloud Time
Read a storybook through twice with the students. Ask comprehension questions as you go. At the end of the story, have students retell it. Open to a page and ask, “What happened here?”

18. Obj. 10a: Engages in conversation
-Watch for how do they talk to peers?
-Is it one exchange, or does it go on for several turns?
Obj. 11b: Persists
-Do they keep trying when given a difficult task? (build me a tower. . .)
-Do they make up their own tasks and pursue them?
Obj. 11c: Solves Problems
Obj. 11e: Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
-Watch for: using imagination in play
Obj. 2c: Interacts with peers
-Watch for the size of group they play with
-If they cooperate or sit on the side
-If they take turns
Obj. 3a: Balances needs and rights of self and others
-Watch for how they share, take turns, and work through tasks with others
Obj. 3b: Solves social problems
-Watch for how they handle problems
-If they seek adult help
-If they solve problems on their own
Group Play
Have students stack blocks, build a puzzle, or play with play-doh.

19. Group Play (continued)
Obj. 20b: Quantifies
-Can they group items and recognize groups that have less, more, the same, etc?
-Can they identify a small number of objects without having to count out loud?
Obj. 20c: Connects numerals with their quantities
-Can they count to 5 or 10?
-Can they identify a number to a group of objects with the same amount?
Obj. 22a: Measures Objects
-Compare length of 1 block to another & identifies differences
-Stacks blocks and identifies how many blocks make up that height
Group Play (continued)

20. Writing Activity 7a: Uses Fingers and Hands
-Watch for how they move their arms when writing
7b: Uses Writing and Drawing Tools
-Watch for pencil grip
Writing Activity
-Have student attempt to write name on paper then draw pictures or letters/numbers

21. Online Testing Changes
Using Elementary Zoom Rooms
Read Aloud Time –same
Vocabulary – same
Simon Says – parent survey
Group Play – online puzzles, screen drawing, tic-tac-toe
Writing Activity – parent survey

22. TS Gold Website - Documentation

23. Testing Website Review

24. More Training Needed?
Free TS GOLD Webinar for GOLD Teachers held by Testing Strategies
This Wednesday, Sept. 12 from 1:30-3:00
Registration Link in the Assessment Website
Webinar covers:
• Add Documentation
• View Documentation
• On-the-Spot
• Intentional Teaching experiences
• Mobile App
• Sharing Documentation

25. Questions? Review of your responsibilities:
Return materials to the Westminster offices ASAP.
- Susan if you need a shipping label
We are on a deadline for reporting the scores. Please don’t leave the testing site until all students have documentation/ observations for all objectives
Make sure you understand and have a plan for how to observe objectives ahead of time.
Talk with your teammate to decide how site responsibilities will be divided
Look through helpful sites on the Assessment Website to prepare yourself
Reach out with any questions
Would you like a BOR set up to meet with your team to discuss these questions right now?

26. LAUNCH