A scope and sequence can be a helpful tool that education staff use to plan learning experiences tailored to children’s ages and developmental levels. To be effective, curricula must be comprehensive in scope and provide learning experiences specifically designed to support children at various levels of development. Why is a scope and sequence so important? Provides information to education staff that helps them plan and communicate with families and other education partners.
Allows flexibility to respond to the needs of individual children, including dual or tribal language learners and children with disabilities (or those suspected of having delays) and other special needs. Includes examples of materials, teaching practices, and learning experiences that support children at different levels of development. Helps education staff support children's development of skills, behavior, and knowledge described in the ELOF and a state's early learning and development standards. A sequence of learning experiences progress from less to more complex, with the goal of supporting children as they move through the developmental progressions.Īn organized developmental scope and sequence: The sequence includes plans and materials for learning experiences to support and extend children's learning at various levels of development. A content-rich curriculum ensures that this scope is sufficiently deep that it engages and sustains children's interests across multiple learning experiences. Scope includes both the breadth (the curriculum addresses development across all of the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework (ELOF) domains) and depth (curriculum content addresses specific developmental goals within each sub-domain). The scope refers to the areas of development addressed by the curriculum. Education staff can use this resource to select and implement curriculum that includes an organized scope and sequence.Ĥ5 §1302.32(a)(1)(iii) and §1302.35(d)(1)(iii): Center-based, family child care, and home- based programs must use curricula that have “an organized developmental scope and sequence that include plans and materials for learning experiences based on developmental progressions and how children learn.” What does "organized developmental scope and sequence" mean?Īn organized developmental scope and sequence outlines what the early childhood curriculum focuses on and how the plans and materials support children at different stages of development. 
The sequence includes plans and materials for learning experiences to support and extend children’s learning at various levels of development. The Head Start Program Performance Standards identify key features of early childhood curricula, including scope and sequence.
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