Welcome to the Office of Head Start (OHS) Caring Connections podcasts. These podcasts are designed to offer you important tidbits of information that focus on topics relevant to your work with infants, toddlers, and their families.
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.
This in-service suite explores guidelines on how to select classroom materials. Learn how to choose materials that engage children and encourage peer interaction and learning.
This in-service suite offers ideas teachers can use to engage children in classroom activities and routines. Learn how giving simple tasks to children keeps them involved.
Find out how teachers can engage children in learning by following the children’s lead.
This in-service suite shows how schedules and routines help to promote children’s learning. Explore guidelines to create a daily classroom schedule that children can learn to follow.
This in-service suite shows how to create expectations for classroom behavior that preschool children can learn.
This in-service suite describes five steps teachers can follow to generate meaningful classroom rules and teach them to children.
Learn ways to redirect a child’s challenging behavior before it escalates.