Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.
Cognition
Cognition is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Resources here address the skills children use to understand and organize their world: reasoning, memory, problem-solving, and thinking skills. For preschoolers, cognition expands to include mathematical development and scientific reasoning.
Other ELOF domains include Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Focusing Children on Learning Goals
This in-service suite describes how teachers can help children better understand what they are learning.