Having a STARS Assessor come out to assess your program? Thinking of using The ECERS scales to self assess your own program? Come to this informational session to find out the basics of what the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales are and how they work!
The Environmental Rating Scales are designed to assess process quality in an early childhood or school age care group. Process quality consists of the various interactions that go on in a classroom between staff and children, staff, parents, and other adults, among the children themselves, and the interactions children have with the many materials and activities in the environment, as well as those features, such as space, schedule and materials that support these interactions. Process quality is assessed primarily through observation and has been found to be more predictive of child outcomes than structural indicators such as staff to child ratio, group size, cost of care, and even type of care, for example child care center or family child care home