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The LFA Toolkit is a collection of presentations, handouts, guided practice exercises, and descriptions of additional resources designed to support program staff in enhancing, conducting, and interpreting child assessments. It builds upon the assessment knowledge and expertise programs already possess, and the materials can be used selectively to design trainings that will meet programs' particular needs.

This section contains materials to assist you with developing a deeper understanding of the LFA Toolkit, how it is organized, how it can be used with your program, and where to begin based upon your program's needs.

This component continues your orientation to the LFA toolkit. It includes presentations that discuss the importance of conducting frequent child assessment and highlights key strategies and concepts for gaining the most from the information you collect.

These presentations are aimed at directors and managers to help them address concepts that are important for their leadership role in assessment. The presentation includes information on how to set up assessment systems, support teachers' assessment activities, and how to use assessment information to make decisions.

Discover the importance of assessment, the assessment-instruction cycle, and the identification of effective, efficient assessment tools and methods that teachers use in their own classrooms.

This component of the Toolkit contains exercises intended for use by managers and education coordinators in training sessions with teachers. These exercises provide teachers the opportunity to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of varied observational assessment techniques that can be used throughout the year to build on what is learned in the periodic assessments conducted to meet federal requirements.

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