Ongoing Assessment for Children Ages Birth to 5
In this tip sheet, learn about ways to plan and implement ongoing assessment procedures and practices. Also, find relevant Head Start Program Performance Standards and resources.
Individualization
Individualization is the process of adapting teaching in response to each learner's identity, interests, family culture and language, strengths, and needs. These resources help program staff individualize the learning environment and the ways in which they interact with and engage children.
Learn about more specialized and intensive support through highly individualized teaching for children with disabilities.
Assessment for Individualization
Use this vignette to reflect on and meet the standards around child screening and assessment for individualization.
Highly Individualized Teaching and Learning
These 15-minute In-service Suites are a professional development resource for staff in busy, active early childhood centers and programs. They are organized around one topic and address effective teaching practices.
1302.33 Child screenings and assessments.
Working with each child’s parent, programs must complete or obtain a current developmental screening to identify concerns regarding a child’s behavioral, motor, language, social, cognitive, and emotional skills.
Engaging Interactions: Scaffolding Children's Learning
“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.
The Teaching Loop
Discover how to use a teaching practice called the Teaching Loop to provide individualized instruction to children.
Resources Supporting Individualization
This collection of resources provides information about evidence-based practices that support individualization and associated resources .