California Framework for Infant-Toddler Learning and Development

The California Framework for Infant–Toddler Learning and Development (IT Framework), which replaces the California Infant-Toddler Curriculum Framework, provides guidance on planning relationships and interactions, routines, and environment and materials to support the learning and development of infants and toddlers. Aligned to the California Infant–Toddler Learning and Development Foundations (ITLDF), it describes how young children learn and develop across the domains of Social and Emotional Development, Approaches to Learning, Language Development, Cognitive Development, and Perceptual and Motor Development. The primary audience for this document is caregivers, particularly infant–toddler care educators in home-based and center-based early learning and care settings, along with trainers, coaches, program directors, education coordinators, early interventionists, disabilities specialists, mentors, and supervisors. Families with infants and toddlers and early childhood faculty in higher education will also find this resource useful.

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