Undergraduate Education: Early Childhood and Childhood: Standards

This website has been developed by the NYS Council on Children and Families Head Start Collaboration Project to support professional development and improve the quality of early childhood and school-age programs. It includes a link to a comparison of early-childhood learning standards.

This resource outlines the knowledge, dispositions and skills required to work with young children. The Core Body of Knowledge offers a road map for building meaningful relationships with children, families and colleagues, for creating nurturing, stimulating environments, and for developing oneself as a professional in early childhood education.

The New York State Early Learning Guidelines lists the developmental milestones children attain between birth and age 5, and provides sample strategies to help practitioners bridge their knowledge of child development to their practice.

The New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) are internationally-benchmarked and evidence-based standards. These standards serve as a consistent set of expectations for what students should learn and be able to do, so that we can ensure that every student across New York State is on track for college and career readiness.

The New York State Prekindergarten Foundation for the Common Core is organized into five broad
developmental and interrelated domains. These include: Approaches to Learning; Physical Development and Health; Social and Emotional Development; Communication, Language, and Literacy; Cognition and Knowledge of the World.

Core Knowledge Language Arts Preschool program

Includes Grades Pre-K-Grade 5 Math Curriculum Map