Professional-Development-to-Go
The Office of Head Start requires a minimum of 15 clock hours of professional development per year for all program staff members who support the progress of children’s development. Professional development should be high-quality, sustained, intensive, and outcome-focused in order to have a positive and lasting impact on the staff member’s performance to provide nurturing and intentional interactions with parents and families designed to foster each child’s development and learning.
In this section, find ready-to-use professional development (PD) resources. These products may be useful to program managers, trainers, consultants, and those working in early education and care programs. The materials in this section reflect evidence-based practices that include:
- Intensive, ongoing, active learning experiences
- Specific, practice-focused content
- Self-assessment and feedback
- Alignment with instructional goals, learning standards, and curriculum materials
PD-to-Go offers comprehensive resources that help to promote workshop outcomes across a variety of content areas. At a minimum, each resource includes:
- Key concepts, objectives, or learning outcomes
- Target audience
- Activities, handouts, and follow-up resources
- References
Review the PD-to-Go selection criteria [PDF, 177KB].
Program Management
- Head Start Program Governance Training: Building Skills of Head Start Leaders
- Management Matters: What Is Leadership?
- Self-Assessment: Your Annual Journey
- Lessons in Leadership – Lead, Learn, and Pass It On
- Virtual Birth to Three 2013 Archive—Track D: Management and Professional Development
- Learning for New Leaders: Head Start A to Z
- Strategic Use of Consultants: A Guide for Head Start and Early Head Start Leaders
- Data in Head Start and Early Head Start
- Digging Into Data
- Wage and Fringe Benefits Comparability Survey Toolbox
- Management Matters: The Head Start Program Planning Cycle
- Management Matters: Cost Allocation
- Head Start Governing Body and Tribal Council Certification
Early Childhood Education
- Digging Deeper: Looking Beyond Behavior to Discover Meaning | In Spanish (español)
- 60 Minutes from Catalogue to Classroom (C2C): Using Journal Articles for Professional Development
- Making Learning Meaningful
- Activity Matrix: Organizing Learning Throughout the Day
- Virtual Birth to Three 2013 Archive—Track A: Inclusive Child Development
- Ongoing Child Assessment: Overview
- Planning for Assessment
- Collecting and Using Anecdotal Records
- Collecting and Using Work Samples
- Collecting and Using Video
- Ongoing Child Assessment: Administrative Support
- Creating Classroom Rules
- Schedules and Routines
- Designing Environments
- Classroom Transitions
- Materials to Support Learning
- Zoning to Maximize Learning
- Teacher-to-Teacher Talk
- Asking Questions
- Focusing Children on Learning Goals
- Adult Support
- Child Preferences
- The Teaching Loop
- Redirecting Behavior
- Curriculum Modifications: Activity Simplification
- Children with Disabilities
- Highly Individualized Teaching and Learning
- Invisible Support
- Materials Adaptation
- Peer Support
- Putting it into Action
- Special Equipment
- SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library
- Communicating with Families of Children Who Are Dual Language Learners
- 60 Minutes from Catalogue to Classroom (C2C): Empathy and Cultural Competence – Reflections from Teachers, Module 2 [PDF, 8.5MB]
- Dialogic Reading that Supports Children Who Are Dual Language Learners and Their Families
Domains of Early Learning
- Virtual Birth to Three 2013 Archive - Track A: Inclusive Child Development Supporting the Intuitive Understanding of Early Math with Infants and Toddlers
- Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
- Using the Scientific Method
- Fostering Connections
- Being Aware of Children's Needs
- Creating a Caring Community
- Stating Behavioral Expectations
- Redirecting Behavior
- Dialogic Reading that Supports Children Who Are Dual Language Learners and Their Families
- Engaging Children in Conversations
- Thick and Thin Conversations
- Asking Questions
- Expansions
- Novel Words
- Problem Solving in the Moment
Family and Community Partnerships
- Virtual Birth to Three 2013—Track B: Child Health & Prenatal Services
- Partnering with Families
- Parent, Family, and Community Engagement Simulation: Boosting School Readiness through Effective Family Engagement
- Interactive Homelessness Lessons
- PFCE Professional Development Guide - Digital
- PFCE Professional Development Guide 1: Approach [PDF, 299KB]
- PFCE Professional Development Guide 2: Family Engagement and School Readiness [PDF, 368KB]
- PFCE Professional Development Guide 3: Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships [PDF, 492KB]
- PFCE Professional Development Guide 4: Leadership and Program Practices [PDF, 337KB]
Resource Key: = Infant/Toddler = Preschool = Infant/Toddler and Preschool
Last Reviewed: June 2016
Last Updated: June 13, 2016