Every state recommends learning and development guidelines and standards for improving the development outcomes in children. For example, Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS). These guidelines provide a list of desired outcomes, what observations to records, and how to measure/evaluate whether a child has achieved the outcome.
We have digitized those and made them available in iCare with the State Recommended Development Standards feature. If the State Development Guidelines are turned on and teachers enter development notes according to the guideline
- See how each child is doing in accordance with the guidelines
- Find patterns in the data to show how groups of children are doing
- Pull assessment data to find deficiencies and modify your curriculums
These guidelines are available in iCare as downloadable templates, which are:
- Template for each state’s Early Learning and Development Guidelines/Standards
- Maria Montessori method
- Baseline iCare default age-based templates