Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS) Exploration Webinar Series

Virginia’s Early Learning and Development Standards (ELDS), Birth-5 Learning Guidelines articulate the skills and knowledge children need to demonstrate by the end of preschool in order to be successful in kindergarten. The standards are intended to help early childhood educators understand the basics of child development, implement effective classroom activities, and engage in high-quality teacher child interactions as measured by Virginia’s quality measurement and improvement system, VQB5.

The Early Learning and Development (ELDS) Exploration Webinar Series helps early childhood professionals become familiar with each developmental area, explore resources, and learn strategies that support implementation. To learn more about the ELDS, visit the VDOE’s Early Childhood Standards & Instructional Supports. You can also view the ELDS Overview, Structure, and Implementation Refresher 2024.

• January: Approaches to Play and Learning: Explore how to foster children's curiosity, initiative, creativity, imagination, and cognitive and behavioral self-regulation - key skills for all young learners
• February: Social and Emotional Development: Learn how you can foster children's relationships with others and support their ability to express, recognize, and manage emotions in positive ways
• March: Communication, Language, and Literacy Development: Get to know the foundational reading, writing, and communication skills that young children are developing in early childhood
• April: Cognitive Development: Learn how you can create a learning environment that support children's abilities to question, explore, describe, predict and share their thinking.
• May: Health and Physical Development: Explore ways you can support learning through the senses and foster children's motor skills, physical health, and self-care
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