Education and Child Development
Teaching practices must focus on promoting growth in the developmental progressions described in this document
What is the Early Learning Outcomes Framework?
Collaborative partnership-building with parents to establish mutual trust and to identify family goals, strengths, and necessary services and other supports.
What is family goal setting?
The approach to systematically and comprehensively look at the needs of dual language learners.
What is a coordinated approach?
Align with the program’s school readiness goals, curricula, and other approaches to professional development.
What is a coaching?
Center-based group size for Early Head Start.
what is no more than 8-9 children enrolled in any class depending on the number of teachers?
The approach used for implementing education services.
What is the birth to 5 approach?
Integrating parent and family engagement strategies into all systems and services to support family well-being and promote children's learning and development.
What is a family engagement approach?
Teaching practices that focus on the home language while also providing experiences in English.
What are DLL services for infants and toddlers?
A baccalaureate degree in child development, early childhood education, or equivalent coursework.
What are the qualifications for center-based Head Start teachers?
The number of annual hours of planned class operations for all enrolled children in Early Head Start.
What is 1,380?
Must be developmentally appropriate, research-based, implemented with fidelity, aligned with the ELOF and have an organized developmental scope and sequence.
What is the curriculum?
Providing parents with applications for their child's home school. Inviting representatives from local schools and schools of choice to speak about their programs. Taking the children on field trips to the elementary school.
What is a transition from Head Start to Elementary School?
Providing experiences that take into account the culture and language of the children.
What is culturally and linguistically appropriate practices?
Demonstrate competency to plan and implement home-based learning experiences that ensure effective implementation of the home visiting curriculum and promote children’s progress across the standards described in the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework: Ages Birth to Five
What are the qualifications for Home Visitors?
Integrated into individual and group planning.
What is child-assessment data?
The number of home visits and socialization required per year for EHS.
What is 46 visits per year and 22 group socializations
The process includes the family partnership agreement and activities that support family well being, safety, economic stability, and health to support child learning and development.
What is the family partnership process?
Conducted in both the home language of the child and English to get a complete understanding of the child's skill level and abilities.
What is screening and assessment?
The results of this tool are used to identify staff training and professional development needs and assist each staff member in improving his/her skills and professional competencies.
What is a Performance Appraisal?
A child stays with the same caregiver throughout their enrolled time with Head Start.
What is continuity of care?
Providing services within the context of the regular classroom environment.
What is inclusion?
Ongoing, collaborative relationships with community organizations that are responsive to children's and families' needs and family partnership goals.
What are community partnerships?
Promotes the parent’s role as the child’s teacher through experiences focused on the parent-child relationship and, as appropriate, the family’s traditions, culture, values, and beliefs.
What is a home-based curriculum??
A systemic approach designed to assist staff in acquiring or increasing the knowledge and skills needed to provide high-quality, comprehensive services within the scope of their job responsibilities, and attached to academic credit as appropriate.
What is training and professional development?
Promotes secure parent-child relationships and helps parents provide high-quality learning experiences.
What is home-based?