Children with Disabilities
Watch this 15-Minutes In Service Suite video, which describes how to use ongoing assessment data when teaching children with disabilities.
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Child Screening and Assessment
Screening and assessment provide valuable information about each child's interests, strengths, and needs. Screening gives a snapshot of whether the child's development is on track. Assessment is an ongoing process that includes observation and provides information about development over time. Systematic, ongoing child assessment provides information on children's development and learning. It helps inform curriculum planning, teaching, and individualizing for each child across all Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains.
Collecting and Using Work Samples
This in-service suite describes how to collect and use work samples to document children's learning in the preschool classroom.
Observation: The Heart of Individualizing Responsive Care
Use this resource with teachers, family child care providers, and home visitors who work with infants, toddlers, and their families.It offers information on observation as well as strategies to support and strengthen this important component of quality infant and toddler care.
Screening, Assessment, Evaluation, and Observation
Explore these tools for learning about a child. They provide information about each child's interests, strengths, and needs.
Developmental Screening Tips, Tools, and Resources
Screening for potential developmental delays in children allows for early treatment and supportive services. On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, Head Start educators and families will find a number of resources on developmental screening tools.
Look Again: Using Sensitive Skilled Observation in Your Program
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.
Collecting and Using Video
There are many ways teachers can use video in a classroom. Explore this in-service suite to learn how to use it to collect information to document child progress.
Using Checklists
This in-service suite shows simple ways teachers can develop and use checklists to collect data on child progress.
Administrative Support
This in-service suite describes ways in which administrators can support teaching staff in conducting ongoing assessment of child progress.
Partnering with Families
This in-service suite describes ways to work in partnership with families in order to facilitate ongoing child assessment.
