The Early Childhood Center of Professional Development has developed the Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards (IELDS) Tools for Teachers Kit - a collection of resources and materials to support practitioners in implementing the revised standards and communicating these standards to families. The resources include crosswalks of the IELDS with the Illinois Early Learning (Birth – Age 3) Guidelines, the Head Start Framework, and Kindergarten Standards. The kit also includes posters of the IELDS highlighting the Preschool Benchmarks and examples of these Benchmarks. Booklets titled “Standards Start at Home” (in English and Spanish) are included as a family’s guide to early learning.
All the materials in the IELDS Tools for Teachers Kit are available for download at the Illinois Early Learning Project website.
