Health and School Readiness
Explore these resources to learn about the connection between health and school readiness and to ensure every Head Start child is ready to succeed in school.
Ongoing Child Assessment
These resources help program staff learn how to continuously collect data to observe and understand how the child responds to instruction. Programs can use ongoing child assessment to make data-informed decisions that can help staff determine how and whether to adjust teaching support to meet learning goals. Resources also cover how to determine the type and level of support a child needs based on the activity, learning objective, and child’s progress.
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.
Preschool Teachers
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.