Dear Fellow members, Stanton Chase International and Humantelligence LLC, invited the senior executives in the Middle East to participate in the Mega Talent Scan Executive Survey, conducted to benchmark the motivators, behaviors, workplace culture and life priorities of executives in the Middle East. They collected and analyzed the overall views of executives representing more than three hundred companies in the Middle East region. I hope you would like this continue...

The Early Childhood Environment Scales are comprised of four scales that each examines the global or overall quality of environments of care in which children can be engaged. The focus of these instruments is on the physical environment and safety with less emphasis on interactive processes of the teacher and child (this part of the ECERS-R instrument is self-reported). None of the scales measure instructional practices of the teacher. The first instrument to be developed was the ECERS continue...

The Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO; Smith & Dickinson, 2002) measures the quality of the language and literacy experiences in classrooms by examining literacy practices and environmental supports. Research has found correlations between presence of specific literacy materials and the frequency of literacy behaviors during free play (Morrow, 1990). The instrument was designed to help identify practices and environmental supports that encourage children’s continue...

The Caregiver Interaction Scale (CIS) developed by Jeffrey Arnett (1989) examines the quality of a teacher’s interaction with pre-school children. This widely used tool is completed by an observer who rates the teacher’s behavior in a child-care or home-based setting. The primary use of this instrument is to examine a teacher’s interactions with children and to assess the teacher’s emotional tone, discipline style, and responsiveness in the classroom. The CIS contains 26-items continue...

The Assessment of Practices in Early Elementary Classrooms (APEEC); Maxwell, McWilliam, Hemmeter, Ault, & Schuster, 2001)) assesses global classroom quality that could be found in any elementary classroom environment. The instrument focuses on observation of developmentally appropriate practices in Kindergarten to 3rd grade classrooms. Few global classroom assessments exist for the elementary grades, particularly those that are specifically designed for this age group. Most continue...

CLASS - The Classroom Assessment Scoring System is an observation instrument developed to assess classroom quality in preschool through third-grade classrooms. The CLASS consists of 3 domains — emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support — that incorporate 10 dimensions of teacher-student interactions. Here is an example of CLASS tool More links on this continue...