Use this resource to support staff as they help infants and toddlers develop the characteristics and skills they will need for later success in school and life.
Explore the critical link between infants’ and toddlers’ social and emotional development and their early learning. Learn how this connection can help self-regulate, communicate and learn, and get along with peers.
Discover how infants and toddlers learn through relationships with caring adults. Learn ways secure relationships help children feel safe, secure, and confident, while supporting their learning.
All areas of children’s development, including social and emotional, influence each other. Learn how infants’ and toddlers’ development unfolds within the context of their relationships with caring adults.
Listen to Mary Louise Hemmeter as she discusses the ELOF and social and emotional development.
Children learn best from rich, responsive social interactions with other people. These interactions allow children and adults to share attention and build bonds.Explore the importance of adults’ responsive social interactions with children. Find out how these interactions allow children and adults to share attention and build bonds.
Find out how children learn in social relationships. Explore how strong bonds with responsive, nurturing adults can support children’s social and emotional development.
This issue of Brush Up on Oral Health offers tips Head Start staff can share with parents about using a pacifier safely and weaning their child from a pacifier.
Explore the importance of early relationships in a child’s life and research-based teaching strategies that support them.
This in-service suite offers ideas teachers can use to engage children in classroom activities and routines. Learn how giving simple tasks to children keeps them involved.