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.

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.

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.

Learn ways to help education staff and families be mindful that many things can influence what they notice and how they interpret their observations about infants and toddlers.

One of the primary reasons for observing children is to measure and track their progress in acquiring skills and concepts in all areas of development. Learn how ongoing assessment is also a Head Start Program Performance Standards requirement.

Goals for children’s development and learning provide a structure for framing observations. Find out about sources of goals and school readiness goals.

Sharing observations with children’s families strengthens the home-program connection. Learn more about this important reason for observing children.