Supporting Children with Challenging Behavior
Head Start teachers often struggle to support children with challenging behavior in the classroom. This webinar shifts the focus from reacting to misbehavior to proactive planning for child’s success.
Head Start teachers often struggle to support children with challenging behavior in the classroom. This webinar shifts the focus from reacting to misbehavior to proactive planning for child’s success.
Play is an important part of learning across the early childhood years. In this webinar, learn how play builds critical cognitive and behavioral skills across the birth to age 5 years. Find out what play looks like for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Find tips classroom staff and home visitors can use when they do not speak the languages of the children in their care.
In this webinar series, federal staff share insights and information around issues related to serving children with disabilities.
Integration Checklist: Including Children with Significant Disabilities in Head Start
This collection of resources provides information about evidence-based practices that support individualization and associated resources .
For infants and toddlers, school readiness refers to their developing capacity to self-regulate, demonstrate curiosity, communicate effectively, and develop close, secure relationships. Good health and proper nutrition support this developing capacity. This happens within the context of nurturing, culturally responsive relationships with parents, caregivers, extended family, and community.
Teachers know and understand the broad range of content areas and the developmental expectations (i.e., social and emotional, cognitive, expressive and receptive language, motor, adaptive, and English language development) appropriate for young children as outlined by the Head Start Early Learning Framework. Teachers consider what they want children to know, understand, and be able to do using the five essential domains.
This guide provides information about two federal programs that could help make student loans easier to pay back: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) and Income-driven Repayment (IDR).
Not only is music enjoyable for infants and toddlers, but it can also provide a connection to home, opportunities to learn, and a way to connect with caring adults. Explore this useful information for teachers, home visitors, and parents about how music supports development across domains.