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Galileo® Pre-K Online
Educational Management System
Providing a complete assessment, curriculum, and reporting system
Professional Development
New Customized On-site Offerings ATI provides comprehensive, customized professional development and consultative offerings focused on implementing and managing all aspects of Galileo® Pre-K Online. The experienced professional development team are well-versed in both educational theory and practice. A member of the team will work with your program to design on-site professional development or consultation tailored to meet your needs and those of your teachers and administrative staff. Your fidelity of implementation, school readiness, assessment, curriculum, and reporting needs are supported through an individualized agenda and personalized opportunity. Blend any of the topics below, or discuss with us your unique requests.
Maximize Galileo with Customized Professional Development
ATI has a number of professional development and support options designed to help ensure that educators maximize their use of the Galileo® system with the goal of increasing children’s learning opportunities.
Assessment & Curriculum Fidelity
Learn how to improve outcomes effectiveness through the implementation of ATI’s Galileo® Pre-K Assessment and Curriculum Fidelity Tool. Benefit from coaching T by ATI’s professional development specialists. ATI will work with your teachers and administrators to explore using the fidelity tool and customizing an approach to meet your program’s unique mission and needs.
Data Exploration with the Experts
In collaboration with ATI’s expert coaches, create a plan for aggregating, disaggregating, and analyzing data. Learn how Galileo® allows for grouping and filtering on important variables such as age and primary language. Monitor the use of Galileo® and the progress of children. With assistance from ATI specialists create, modify and evaluate the effectiveness of action plans at the program, site, class, and child level.
School Readiness: Preparing Children for Kindergarten
Examine the Galileo® School Readiness Scales, and your program’s school readiness in light of state and local guidelines. Learn how implementing Galileo® with fidelity provides the basis for obtaining valuable school readiness data. Analyze and interpret this data to continuously monitor children’s progress to kinder readiness. Learn how to continuously create program, site, class, and individual child School Readiness action plans based on Galileo assessment data.
For more information, schedule an online overview at ati-online.com or contact us. 1.877.358.7611 ati-online.com
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Encouraging and Documenting Children’s Growth and Progress Participant Feedback “I feel that we learned a lot of new things that we can take back to the classroom and use to better help us evaluate and assess our students this year ... Thank you and great job! - C.T. Teacher “I feel I am definitely better prepared to work with Galileo due to this course. It was extremely informative and the instructor was very professional ... she definitely knows her stuff.” - B.S Teacher “Information was explained very well. The program looks very useful. I look forward to exploring and using Galileo. Thank you.” - L.C. Director
With the help of ATI, organize growth and progress data in a variety of ways to assist in monitoring whether end-of-year expectations are on track to being met. Examine overall growth at the program, site, class, and child level, as well as progress on valued developmental goals, such as School Readiness goals. Closely explore what data indicates about children’s learning and integrate children’s growth and progress data into planning.
Empowering Children as Learners and Parents as Partners
Learn the importance of establishing a baseline assessment for children at the very beginning of the year and implementing a cycle of observing, assessing, planning and sharing children’s learning. Learn the special tips and advanced functionality of the Galileo® system. Special emphasis is placed on sharing with families, children’s growth, progress, and upcoming learning goals.
Linking Assessment and Curriculum with Galileo®
Learn how to link assessment data to lesson planning and how to utilize the Galileo® planning suggestions. Learn how to integrate your assessment and curriculum tools. Understand how the Galileo® curriculum tools promote school readiness. Identify activities that target children’s individual needs. Discover the many support resources ATI provides for teachers using the Galileo® Pre-K Online Curriculum.
Fundamentals
Available on-site and online: Fundamentals of Galileo®, Fundamentals of Merlin, and Fundamentals of Galileo® Online Curriculum. Professional development offerings provide new users, future trainers, and administrators with the background needed for implementation.
Inter-rater Reliability Offerings
The purpose of the Inter-rater Reliability Professional Development Series is to provide a standard of best practices in observational assessment which will support preschool teachers and program staff in reliably and accurately documenting children’s learning.
Module 1. Best Practices in Observational Assessment (On-site and Online) Learn the purpose and benefits of observational assessment and learn techniques for consistent implementation of classroom assessment. Module 2. Unpacking the Galileo G3 Scales for 3- through 5-Year-Olds (Online) Learn the foundational concepts in each domain while developing an in-depth understanding of the goals that make up the domain. Domainspecific expert-certification is earned with each successful completion of a domain-specific component and its accompanying assessment.
Schedule a Professional Development Session
On-site instruction is arranged through the ATI Professional Development Department. Sessions are booked on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact a Professional Development staff member at 1.877.358.7611 or at
[email protected] for information and to reserve a date.
For more information, schedule an online overview at ati-online.com or contact us. 1.877.358.7611 ati-online.com
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