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- Early care and education (ECE): Includes all care and educational settings provided for children birth to age 5 before formal K-12 education begins, including center-based and home-based programs.
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- The Standards
- Standard 1: Relationships
- Standard 2: Curriculum
- Standard 3: Teaching
- Standard 4: Assessment of Child Progress
- Standard 5: Health
- Standard 6: Staff Competencies, Preparation, and Support
- Standard 7: Families
- Standard 8: Community Relationships
- Standard 9: Physical Environment
The program promotes positive relationships among all children and adults. It encourages each child’s sense of individual worth and belonging as part of a community and fosters each child’s ability to contribute as a responsible community member. Warm, sensitive, and responsive relationships help children feel secure. The safe and secure environmen...
The program implements a curriculum that is consistent with its goals for children and promotes learning and development in each of the following areas: social, emotional, physical, language, and cognitive. A well-planned written curriculum provides a guide for teachers and administrators. It helps them work together and balance different activitie...
The program uses developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches that enhance each child’s learning and development in the context of the curriculum goals. Children have different learning styles, needs, capacities, interests, and backgrounds. By recognizing these differences and using instructional app...
The program is informed by ongoing systematic, formal, and informal assessment approaches to provide information on children’s learning and development. These assessments occur within the context of reciprocal communications with families and with sensitivity to the cultural contexts in which children develop. Assessment results benefit children by...
The program promotes the nutrition and health of children and protects children and staff from illness and injury. Children must be healthy and safe in order to learn and grow. Programs must be healthy and safe to support children’s healthy development. What to look for in a program: 1. Teaching staff have training in pediatric first aid. 2. Infant...
The program employs and supports a teaching staff with the educational qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children’s learning and development and to support families’ diverse needs and interests. Teachers who have specific preparation, knowledge, and skills in child development and early childhood education ...
The program establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with each child’s family to foster children’s development in all settings. These relationships are sensitive to family composition, language, and culture. To support children’s optimal learning and development, programs need to establish relationships with families based on mutual tr...
The program establishes relationships with and uses the resources of the children’s communities to support the achievement of program goals. Relationships with agencies and institutions in the community can help a program achieve its goals and connect families with resources that support children’s healthy development and learning. What to look for...
The program has a safe and healthful environment that provides appropriate and well-maintained indoor and outdoor physical environments. The environment includes facilities, equipment, and materials to facilitate child and staff learning and development. An organized, properly equipped, and well-maintained program environment facilitates the learni...
Mar 26, 2024 · Early childhood education (ECE) involves the formal education and care of young children by non-family members in specialized settings before those children start primary school. An early childhood education program typically involves children up to 8 years of age.
May 15, 2024 · Connect. Early Learning at ED. To improve the educational and social emotional outcomes for young children from birth through 3rd grade, the Department administers programs and promotes initiatives that increase access to high-quality early learning programs, improve the early learning workforce, and build state capacity to support high-quality ...
Nov 8, 2023 · Purpose. Key Findings and Highlights. Citation. Glossary. Early care and education (ECE): Includes all care and educational settings provided for children birth to age 5 before formal K-12 education begins, including center-based and home-based programs. Educators: Individual members of the early care and education workforce.
Feb 26, 2024 · 05/19/2021. Newsletter. ED's Early Learning newsletter provides monthly updates to subscribers on early learning initiatives led by the Department and our partners across agencies and in the field. Printable view. Last Modified: 03/15/2024. Early Learning at the U.S. Department of Education and beyond.
