Performance Standards
This presents 5 broad areas of early learning, referred to as central domains.
What is the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework?
The nation's special education law.
What is IDEA?
What is intentionality?
An interactive process through which family services professionals, early childhood (EC) providers, and other EC professionals, family members, and their children build positive and goal-oriented relationships.
What is Family Engagement?
A program must ensure at least __ percent of its total funded enrollment is filled by children eligible for services under IDEA, unless the responsible HHS official grants a waiver.
What is 10%
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all children be screened for general development using a validated questionnaire at these ages:
What is 9, 18, 24, and 30 months?
What is routines and experiences?
What is six months?
The knowledge, skills, and practices family service professionals use to engage families.
What are Relationship-Based Competencies (RBCs)?
In collaboration with each child’s parent and with parental consent, a program must complete or obtain a current developmental screening to identify concerns regarding a child’s developmental, behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, and emotional skills within __ calendar days of when the child first attends the program.
What is 45 days?
This organization has information on child development, developmental screening, and early intervention.
What is CDC? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
What is the cognitive dimension?
What is set up environment, positioning, scan and count, listen, anticipate behaviors, and engage and redirect?
An approach to working with families that focuses on their interests, abilities, motivations, and resources. Instead of focusing on problems and needs, a _________ perspective sees families as agents capable of making their own change as they work to achieve their goals.
What is "strength-based"?
The value, policy, and practice that supports the right of every child and his or her family, regardless of ability, to participate in a broad range of activities as full members of families, communities and society.
What is inclusion?
This method involves teachers meeting young children where they are, both as individuals and as part of a group; and helping each child meet challenging and achievable learning goals.
What is developmentally appropriate practice?
This color corresponds to the widely held expectations for Kindergarten ready skills.
What is purple?
These are used to report critical issues to CDI or the Office of Head Start
What are SMART Reports?
A competency that supports families’ reflections on and planning for their safety, health, education, well-being, and life goals.
What is Family Well-Being and Families as Learners?
A program must provide ____ annual hours of planned class operations over the course of at least eight months per year for all of its Head Start center-based funded enrollment
What is 1,020 annual hours?
This document defines protection from discrimination and what necessary accommodations need to be made or services offered for children who have special needs, but who do not qualify under IDEA.
What is a 504 plan?
The 10 interest areas in a Creative Curriculum classroom are:
What is:
Blocks, Dramatic Play, Toys and Games, Art, Library, Discovery, Sand and Water, Music and Movement, Cooking, and Technology.
The section of a leave request that documents the number of SETO or PALTO hours that are being used is approved by ____.
Who is HR or Kelly?
A practice of working alongside parents to build on their strengths as advocates for their families and as leaders in the program and community.
What is Leadership and Advocacy?