Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning

Explore what school readiness means for infants and toddlers. Learn how secure relationships with adults supports children’s development and learning.

Use this video to explore the rapid growth and development that occurs in the first three years of life. Explore its influence on later development and learning.

Explore the Early Essentials video series. Learn what Early Head Start, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, and child care staff can do to support infant and toddler development and learning.

This webinar reviews the importance of helping children transition from preschool or Head Start to kindergarten. It also shares successful strategies to help children, families, and teachers during this time.

“Scaffolding” means to provide children with just the right level of support to help them successfully complete a task. This webinar shares three main scaffolding strategies.

Use the scientific method’s five steps to help expand children’s understanding of their environment.

Daily schedules and routines help keep you organized. Research shows they also influence children’s social and emotional development. Learn how to develop your classroom schedules and routines in ways that will help you create and sustain a lively but well-organized classroom.

In this webisode, learn more about responsive interactions with infants and toddlers. Discover ways to use everyday routines as opportunities to engage in these interactions.

Conversations help children develop varied vocabularies. Find out how to use everyday talks with children to help them learn more vocabulary words.