Reviews
Monica McDonald, Early Childhood Resource Teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools - September 28, 2021
“The new edition of AEPS-3 has many exciting updates! Among them are the 2 new content areas focusing on Literacy and Math. The Literacy area will ensure providers are helping children develop the skills to be ready to learn to read AND ready to read to learn! The new materials for families will help parents better understand the skills children need to start kindergarten. In addition, the family materials will help increase family engagement with teaching targets and their child’s learning, which will help improve student outcomes.”
Bridget Foley, Virtual Preschool Special Education Teacher, Greenville County Schools - July 1, 2021
“AEPS-3 provides more opportunities for family involvement, which will support the child's overall development. [And] the new assessment activities will help with data collection in the natural environment of the child's classroom.”
Nancy Miller, Former Student Services Consultant, Blue Valley School District, KS - July 1, 2021
“The addition of the two new areas (Literacy and Math) are welcome components of the tool. I’m not a fan of pushing down higher developmental skills on younger children, but there are developmentally and age-appropriate math and literacy skills that are addressed in most child care and preschool programs. I feel that the authors have gone to great lengths to maintain the integrity of the AEPS in adding these two test areas. I believe teachers and parents will both be excited to have these and, hopefully, it will encourage developmentally appropriate goals for children in these areas.”
Christy Kaylor, University of Kentucky Early Childhood Lab - July 1, 2021
“The AEPS-3 Curriculum will help focus my instruction and progress monitoring ... [it] will give me ideas on how to embed specific skills within our daily activities and routines, as well as providing strategies for instruction on targeted skills. [And] I am looking forward to having AEPS-3 Ready-Set as a resource and tool in the classroom. It includes items that families often ask about before their child transitions to kindergarten, and I like how it is still about the ‘whole child.’”