Infant/Toddler Teaching Practices
Use the resources on this page to strengthen infant and toddler teaching practices
Infants and Toddlers
Supporting Children's Early Brain Development
In this webinar, explore how children’s back-and-forth interactions during everyday experiences and routines build the brain. Also, find out how these interactions can set the stage for a lifetime of learning.
Responsive Caregiving as an Effective Practice to Support Children's Social and Emotional Development
Explore the importance of early relationships in a child’s life and research-based teaching strategies that support them.
Healthy Home Visiting: Tummy Time Podcast
Listen to this podcast for home visitors on helping families promote tummy time with their babies.
Tummy Time and Free Play for Infants
Tummy Time is a simple position with enormous benefits! Home visitors have a unique opportunity to partner with families and help them understand the importance of tummy time and how to add it to their routine.
Research and Reports About Collaborations Between Head Start and Child Care
Read findings, analyses, assessments, and reports about the benefits of successful collaborations between Head Start programs, and child care providers.
Tips for Keeping Children Safe: A Developmental Guide - Young Infants
Infants depend on their caregivers for food, warmth, and care, and for meeting such basic needs as eating, diapering, sleeping, and bonding. But all babies are unique. Some infants may settle easily and be capable of quickly soothing themselves.
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.
Tips for Keeping Infants and Toddlers Safe: A Developmental Guide for Home Visitors – Toddlers
The toddler years are a time when children are building skills in all areas. They remember what they learn and share it with others. They understand things more deeply, make choices, and engage with others in new ways.
Early Head Start Programs
Early Head Start (EHS) programs serve infants and toddlers under the age of 3, and pregnant women. EHS programs provide intensive comprehensive child development and family support services to low-income infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families.