Infants and toddlers learn through play, exploration, and interaction with objects and people in thecontext of meaningful relationships with trusted adults....The parents and the EHS staff collaborativeto develop learning goals, identify the experiences they want children to have in the program, and dowhat is necessary to create these learning opportunities. The ongoing developmental assessmen

“Unlike preschool curricula, which may have more prescribed topics andcontent, the learning that occurs in the first 3 years of life is less content-specificand more fundamental to all learning processes. Because babies self-selecttheir object of attention an arena of practice, the planning and implementationof experiences that will support a child’s agenda must be carried out througha process of close observation, documentation, reflection, and individualizedplanning. Therefore, rather than a curriculum that is designed for an age groupor a classroom, infant/toddler curricula are documented in individual plans (the‘written plan’ referred in the Head Start Performance Standard).”