Math Learning Trajectories: Early Number Development
Children are learning math every day in Head Start programs across the country. Watch these videos to see how teachers encourage their early number development.
Early Learning Outcomes Framework
The Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework describes how children progress across key areas of learning and development. This information helps adults better understand how they can provide experiences that support important early learning outcomes for all children.
Resources in this collection support children's development across five central ELOF domains: Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; Cognition; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Using the ELOF to Establish School Readiness Goals
Learn ways to update school readiness goals to align with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Find out how to identify child assessment data to measure progress.
Using the ELOF to Inform Professional Development
Discover how to use the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) tools to plan professional development. Find ways to help staff in supporting children’s development and learning in the ELOF domains.
Linda Espinosa: Scaffolding the Assets of Dual Language Learners
Hear from Linda Espinosa about ways to apply the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) to children who are dual language learners.
Catherine Snow: Building Language Knowledge
Listen as Catherine Snow talks about how the ELOF relates to the language and literacy domain.
Daryl Greenfield: Encouraging Our Youngest Scientists at Work
Hear from Daryl Greenfield as he talks about the ELOF and how cognition for infants and toddlers develops into scientific reasoning for preschoolers.
Using the ELOF to Inform Assessment
Support your program in reviewing how well an assessment instrument assesses children’s skills, behaviors, and knowledge in the ELOF domains.
Finding the Math
Learn more about how to plan math activities in the classroom. Also, share these activities with parents to use at home with their children.
Curriculum Alignment with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF)
Aligning a curriculum with the ELOF allows staff to see which and to what extent the ELOF domains and sub-domains are addressed in the curriculum.
Interactive Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five
Explore the Interactive Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five.