How Music Supports Learning Across ELOF Domains
This video clip is part of the Magic of Music for Infants and Toddlers series.
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Cognition
Cognition is one of the five central domains of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF). Resources here address the skills children use to understand and organize their world: reasoning, memory, problem-solving, and thinking skills. For preschoolers, cognition expands to include mathematical development and scientific reasoning.
Other ELOF domains include Approaches to Learning; Social and Emotional Development; Language and Literacy; and Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development.
Open a Box of Possibilities to Support STEAM Learning
What’s in the box? Endless possibilities! Educators and families can use cardboard boxes to spark children’s imaginations. Children build skills as they imagine, create, and test and implement their ideas.
Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.
Focusing Children on Learning Goals
This in-service suite describes how teachers can help children better understand what they are learning.
Early Experiences Build the Brain
Explore in this News You Can Use how the connections within the brain are created and made strong, the negative impact of chronic stress at an early age, and how caring adults can help even in difficult situations.
Me and You
This short video explores the impact of adults on the growth and development of infants and very young children.
Daryl Greenfield: Encouraging Our Youngest Scientists at Work
Hear from Daryl Greenfield as he talks about the ELOF and how cognition for infants and toddlers develops into scientific reasoning for preschoolers.
Imitation and Symbolic Representation and Play
Imitation and Symbolic Representation and Play
Memory
Memory
Cognition
The Cognition domain includes Effective Practice Guides for each sub-domain. Discover teaching practices that support children’s development in all early learning settings.
