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Research shows that the social, physical, and cognitive environments that a child is exposed to in the first years of life have a lasting impact on how a child develops. The capabilities that children acquire during their formative preschool years have a profound effect on their successful transition to school as well as maintaining success while attending school. One of the fundamental goals of ATI is to assist programs in meeting the school readiness needs of children. To help programs target these valued educational goals, ATI has created the Galileo School Readiness Scales.
The Galileo School Readiness Scale is a developmental scale that consists of capabilities from the essential areas of learning and development reflected in the G3 Assessment Scales. There is one School Readiness Scale for each age range reflected in the G3 Assessment Scales. The capabilities on these scales reflect valued school readiness goals, which programs may use to benchmark the progress their children are making in getting ready for successful entry into kindergarten. The age ranges are:
00-08 months
08-18 months
18-24 months
2-3 years
3-5 years
The School Readiness Scales should be used for reporting purposes. As a teacher documents a child’s learning on the Galileo G3 Assessment Scales, the like-capabilities on the School Readiness Scale will also be updated as learned, meaning no additional work for the teacher. Users may select the age range appropriate School Readiness Scale when running reports. This may be very useful for planning and reporting purposes. Refer to the How do I Generate Reports? for reporting options.
In choosing which capabilities to include on the Galileo School Readiness Scale for 3- through 5-year-olds, ATI analyzed the specific goals in the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework, various state early learning standards, and Common Core Kindergarten Standards. Those capabilities that were common among the Framework and standards were identified as the agreed-upon essential performance objectives for preschool-age children transitioning into kindergarten.
Once these standards were identified and analyzed, the developmentally sequenced capabilities that a child must learn to achieve these valued goals were determined and then included as school readiness goals in the Galileo School Readiness Scale for 3- through 5-year-olds.
Early childhood development experts at ATI then identified the precursor skills for these school readiness skills which appear on the multiple age range Galileo G3 assessment scales for birth to 3 years. The appropriate precursor skills were then included on the Galileo School Readiness Scales for birth to 3 years to create the integrated set of Galileo School Readiness Scales which will allow programs to report on a child’s developmental progression from birth through 5 years of age. A document illustrating the precursor skills related to the Common Core Kindergarten Standards can be accessed by clicking this link.
The end result are scales that can serve as a reporting tool for focusing educators’ attention on essential standards and for benchmarking children’s progress in attaining these essential capabilities in the process of getting ready for school. The scales seamlessly document children’s kindergarten-readiness progress from birth through 5 years of age.
Last Updated: 11.13.17