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Welcome to the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) website for early learning professionals and caregivers. Access resources like websites, apps, videos, guides and more for GELDS, Training, and At Home Learning Access the secure portal to create lesson plans and activities, add/view media, and view messages Browse the extensive repository of developmentally appropriate activities for all age groups and learning domains View various DECAL-approved templates that can be used to plan weekly lessons In Georgia, those milestones are organized into a statewide framework called GELDS: the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards.

Georgia GELDS outlines what children from birth to five should know and be able to do across five key areas of development. It helps early educators plan meaningful activities, track progress, and create responsive classroom environments. Learning about GELDS is also a required part of Georgia’s health and safety training for licensed child care providers. In this blog, we’ll walk through what GELDS covers and explore how these five areas of development show up in real life, with practical examples from infancy through age five. GELDS outlines five core areas of child development—from birth through age five—that help guide your observations, planning, and support for each child’s growth. Each domain covers a specific area of development, like physical skills or emotional awareness.

Within each domain are strands, which organize related learning goals, and indicators, which describe observable skills and behaviors at different ages. Below, you’ll find an overview of each domain and examples of everyday behaviors you can tie to specific indicators—so you can recognize learning in action and feel confident connecting it to the GELDS framework. Authors: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning The Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) were developed to increase the quality of early learning programs, improve alignment across early learning programs, and create durable linkages between standards, curriculum and assessments to... The standards have five domains of learning that are organized into strands, standards and age-appropriate indicators – physical development and motor skills; social and emotional development; approaches to play and learning; communication, language and... GELDS aims to enable early childhood educators to plan better lessons and activities, understand where children are developmentally, pinpoint their strengths and needs, and understand which skills (indicators) to cover.

It encourages educators to be intentional in what they teach, meaning that lessons are based on where children are developmentally, choosing specific indicators across different domains to teach each week, and taking into consideration... Family engagement is a core component of GELDS. The standards encourage regular communication between families and programs and between individual teachers and families to reinforce the roles that families and early childhood programs play in supporting children’s development. It also encourages teachers to engage parents in young children’s learning by sharing children’s progress and growth. By understanding GELDS, families can extend learning at home, better understand the learning and development of their child, become a true partner with their child’s teacher and learning program, and recognize if their child... For more information, visit the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) website.

We are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of technology or ability. We endeavor to comply with best practices and standards defined by Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act, and we use WCAG Version 2.1 level AA guidelines when measuring our efforts toward achieving this goal. If you encounter any technology-based barriers when accessing any of our sites, please contact us at (706) 734-2363 for assistance or email us at info@trionschools.org. 919 Allgood Street Suite 1, Trion, GA 30753PH: 1.706.734.2991Fax: 1.706.734.7549 The goal of the Quality Rated Orientation course is to inform early learning and care professionals about the purpose and process of the Quality Rated System.

Introduction to the Environment Rating Scales (2 hours) The goal of the Introduction to the Environment Rating Scales course is to help early learning professionals become familiarized with the Environment Rating Scales (ERS) that will be used during Quality Rated observations. "Big Three" of the Environment Rating Scales (2 hours) The goal of the "Big Three" of the Environment Rating Scales course is to provide early learning professionals an overview of the Environment Rating Scales (ERS), focusing on the three core components of the...

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