Learn about benefits of outdoor time for infants and toddlers. Find suggestions for creating outdoor play spaces, safety considerations, and strategies and policies to support quality infant-toddler programming.
These videos demonstrate cultural practices in tribal early learning settings that support children's development in all Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) domains.
Explore the key parts of successful kindergarten transitions. Learn how staff and elementary school leaders can use information, relationships, and alignment to support smooth transitions for Head Start children.
From an early age, the arts can help children communicate and connect. Discover how arts experiences support young children's development across the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains.
Learn how coaching can help increase the quality of care and child outcomes. Find out about various evidence-based coaching models in school-age and early care and education settings.
In the ongoing child assessment cycle, observing, documenting, and reflecting guide education staff to intentional and purposeful responses. Explore how this helps staff create individualized learning opportunities for infants and toddlers.
Education staff review facts and reflect on what they mean, as part of ongoing child assessment. Find out how the questions they explore and answer can lead to individualizing care and the curriculum.
Learn ways to set up a system for carrying out observations of infants and toddlers.
Sharing observations with children’s families strengthens the home-program connection. Learn more about this important reason for observing children.
In this part of Observation: The Heart of Individualizing Care for Infants and Toddlers, learn some of the more common documentation methods that education staff are likely to use.