This literature review published by NIEER examines research regarding infant/toddler care over the span of more than three decades. The review highlights key findings from the literature, including the relationship between the Child Care and Development Fund and quality childcare. The author also provides an overview of gaps in the research and implications for future childcare policies.
This webinar covers a range of examples of how to teach intentionally in ways that individualize, including illustrations fordual language learners and gifted learners. Presenter Breeyn Mack illustrates how the observation, documentation, and assessment information that teachers gather using Teaching Strategies GOLD® can be used to promote each child's development and learning in ways that acknowledges strengths, needs, and interests.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has an excellent website and one of my favorite features is the Rocking and Rolling section. Several times a year the talented team at ZERO TO THREE authors a new Rocking and Rolling article. For example, the November 2020 article was called Rocking and Rolling: Fostering Curiosity in Infants and Toddlers. It featured recent research about the importance of curiosity, and offered great tips for nurturing it. Check out the November 2017 issue which has suggestions for addressing bias in infant and toddler programs.
Building skills that promote greater attention, focus, and calm can offer children the benefit of a peaceful, responsive presence in their early childhood setting. This article shares evidence-based strategies for doing that.
This chapter from the DEC Recommended Practices Monograph on Environments describes how to promote access and participation by using universal design strategies and making individualized modifications.
The Course Syllabus Rubric is designed to guide the review and documentation of key content and areas of knowledge/practice that are important to consider when preparing professionals to support each and every child and family. The content areas may be found throughout the syllabus* or in one specific section.
A guide for training faculty and other personnel on assessing course syllabi is also included.
Visit the Safe to Sleep® website to view or order FREE educational materials, read myths and facts about safe infant sleep, find tummy time tips, and discover other helpful resources related to reducing the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Recently posted materials are available in English and Spanish.
This website partners with coalitions in the United States and international organizations to reduce unintentional injury in children. Resources and information for parents, educators, and safety professionals are available on a variety of risk areas in the home, on the road, and in sports and play.
This webpage contains a video library with clips on providing a safe environment for babies to sleep. It also contains a list of resources providing information on infant safe sleep. Information in Spanish and Arabic is also available.
Prepared by NICHD, this video clip offers suggestions and advice on creating a safe sleep environment and reducing risk of SIDS, and other sleep-related causes of infant death.
This webpage contains national standards for various safe sleep issues such as practices, providing a safe sleep environment, education and training, polices and other related issues. Within each standard, links to related standards and related references are provided.
This study, published in Pediatrics, shares results from a systematic review of the literature on the safety of routine vaccines recommended for children in the United States. The new analysis showed that the hepatitis B vaccine does not appear to cause adverse effects, despite what some groups have claimed. The research also again found no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Furthermore, the polio vaccine was not associated with creating food allergies, as has been claimed, and absolutely no vaccine was linked with causing leukemia or death.
Young dual language learners (DLLs) are a very diverse group with different languages, experiences, strengths, and gifts. This resource outlines the language similarities among all children. It also highlights the differences between children learning two or more languages and those learning one.
This chapter presents an overview of the sanitation policies and procedures and the rationale for these policies. Links to related standards are provided.
In this article, Pertersen proposes that the foundations for learning, and therefore the basis for school readiness, are set from infancy. She describes how adults can help young children develop various skills in the domains of learning. These skills include curiosity, attention, problem solving, memory, information gathering, and persistence.
This August 2016 TED talk by Dr. Rosemarie Allen offers both personal and professional insights into the challenges of early childhood suspensions and expulsions of Black children. She speaks on identified behaviors exemplified by preschoolers being labeled destructive and disruptive. Dr. Allen identifies how adults perceive child behavior in comparison to their own behaviors, and offers insights about the eager behavior of Black preschoolers. A reflection is provided on the preschool to prison pipeline, along with a call for action to become self-aware as adults in creating safe and equitable teaching environments for preschoolers, with particular attention to Black boys.
This 68-page guide produced by the American Civil Liberties Union, Gender Spectrum, the Human Rights Campaign, NEA, and NCLR provides guidance for school staff to assist them in supporting students. While it is focused on K-12 programs, many of the general concepts and policy suggestions are relevant for ECE programs as well.