Group Socializations
Learn how home visitors can help promote the parent’s role as the child’s teacher during socializations. Discover how to use experiences focused on the parent-child relationship.
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Teaching Practices
Effective, nurturing, and responsive teaching practices and interactions are key for all learning in early childhood settings. They foster trust and emotional security; are communication and language rich; and promote critical thinking and problem-solving. They also support social, emotional, behavioral, and language development; provide supportive feedback for learning; and motivate continued effort. Teaching practices and interactions are responsive to and build on each child’s pattern of development and learning. They can be measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) and other adult-child interaction tools. These observations may then be used to support professional development. Teaching practices also include how schedules and routines are carried out, how settings are managed, and how children’s challenging behaviors are addressed.
Roles of a Home Visitor
Research shows the most important role of a home visitor is structuring child-focused home visits. Learn how to promote parents’ ability to support the child’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development.
Promoting Children's Development and Learning with the Framework for Effective Practice, Birth to 5
The 2018–2019 Teacher Time series covers positive, safe environments, curriculum fidelity, transitions, and ongoing child assessment for teachers and family child care providers.
Infant/Toddler Effective Practice Series
These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting infants' and toddlers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.
Bang! Squish! Leap! Supporting the A in STEAM with Infants and Toddlers
Learn how to integrate the arts into activities that support children's school readiness across the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) domains.
Mobile Tools for Home Visitors
Explore free mobile tools for home visitors from the Office of Head Start, including ELOF@HOME and Text4HomeVisitors. Discover effective practices and get text messages focusing on home-based topics and resources.
Structured, Child-Focused Home Visiting
Learning opportunities that are planned and structured to meet the interests and development level of the child are more likely to have a more positive impact on development.
Roles for Parents in Socializations
Parent contribute to the planning, interact with their child, observe other adults, and watch their child interact with peers. Parents may make new friendships that extend into their daily lives.
The Integration of Comprehensive Services into Socializations
Head Start home-based programs can use socialization to share information and help connect families to comprehensive services. Based on the unique needs of families, home visitors can talk about a variety of topics.
Preschool Effective Practice Series
These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting preschoolers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.
