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Listen to training and technical assistance podcasts from the Office of Head Start. Home visitors, child care providers, directors, teachers, and other staff can access and learn valuable information about a variety of early childhood-focused topics.
This audio conference features Sherry Heller, co-editor of A Practical Guide to Reflective Supervision, federal staff, and program managers who use reflective supervision in their Early Head Start programs. Panelists will discuss the challenges of introducing and implementing the practice and share their keys to success.
Listen to this audio conference, where faculty share strategies for making observation practical and meaningful to Early Head Start and Migrant and Seasonal Head Start staff’s work.
Unsupervised children within the Head Start and Early Head Start setting is a serious issue. Programs are responsible for ensuring that children are supervised in classrooms, playgrounds, buses, and field trips. OHS Acting Director Ann Linehan sends a reminder to programs of their obligation to ensure infants, toddlers, and preschool age children are safe and supervised at all times.
Hear from Brenda Jones Harden as she takes a look at how the ELOF relates to the work that home visitors do with parents, families, and their children.
Hear from Daryl Greenfield as he talks about the ELOF and how cognition for infants and toddlers develops into scientific reasoning for preschoolers.
Listen to this podcast for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) is for everyone! Find out how to help programs recognize and facilitate opportunities for science learning with young children.
Technology is more than smartphones and computers; it's about designing and using tools. Discover how to help programs understand and support technology learning and exploration with young children.
Blocks are a great way for young children to build engineering skills, but they aren't the only way. Learn more about creating environments that support engineering skills and encourage curiosity.
Art, just like science, technology, engineering, and math, is a way of thinking, creating, understanding, and communicating. Explore how early art experiences support development across learning domains.
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