Approaches to Learning During the First Year of Life
Infants are born ready to learn. Learn strategies to support babies’ sensory experience of the world around them during their first year of life.
Approaches to Learning is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). It focuses on how children learn. These resources explore how children acquire the skills and behaviors they use to engage in learning, such as self-regulation, initiative, curiosity, and creativity.
Other ELOF domains include Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; Cognition; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Infants are born ready to learn. Learn strategies to support babies’ sensory experience of the world around them during their first year of life.
These four Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting the four sub-domains of the ELOF Approaches to Learning domain with infants, toddlers, and their families.