Supporting Initiative and Curiosity in Infants and Toddlers
Explore how teachers and family child care providers can prepare learning environments and experiences for infants and toddlers that help them develop initiative and curiosity.
Approaches to Learning is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). It focuses on how children learn. These resources explore how children acquire the skills and behaviors they use to engage in learning, such as self-regulation, initiative, curiosity, and creativity.
Other ELOF domains include Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; Cognition; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Explore how teachers and family child care providers can prepare learning environments and experiences for infants and toddlers that help them develop initiative and curiosity.
In this Coaching Corner webinar, identify ways to help staff encourage children’s initiative and curiosity. Discuss ways to boost coachee and coach initiative and curiosity through reflection and feedback.
Explore the role of the early learning leader in providing education staff with resources and guidance to meaningfully follow the interests of children and encourage their natural inclination to ask questions, experiment, and explore.
Discover strategies to support initiative and independence in preschool-aged children by building on their eagerness to ask questions, play, and learn.
Join a discussion on the importance of cognitive self-regulation skills — often referred to as executive functioning — for infants and toddlers and learn ways to support their development.
Cognitive self-regulation skills — or executive functioning — are key school readiness skills. Explore the importance of cognitive self-regulation for preschoolers and learn ways to support their development.
Self-regulation is a suite of cognitive skills that is essential for learning, planning, and problem-solving. In this Coaching Corner webinar, explore strategies to support these skills in children birth to 5.
Discuss the role of the early learning leader in providing education staff with the resources and guidance necessary to foster children's cognitive regulation skills.
Explore research, home visiting strategies, and resources that support home visitors as they partner with families to promote cognitive self-regulation in young children.
This Coaching Corner webinar demonstrates ways to help staff boost children’s emotional and behavioral self-regulation skills. Check out resources you can share with coachees or use yourself.