# Center-Based Early Childhood Director - Professional Development - Frequently Asked Questions (ASQ)

### What professional development resources help early childhood teachers learn how to observe and support young children's development?

**Summary:** ASQ offers a Training Portal, the Screening Navigator, virtual training options, and more than 300 downloadable resources. These help teachers learn to administer screening, interpret results, and connect them to classroom support.

ASQ provides a library of more than 300 implementation resources covering every phase of screening (agesandstages.com). The ASQ Training Portal offers free presentations, activities, and handouts teachers can use to build skills at their own pace. The Screening Navigator gives step-by-step guidance for planning, preparing, administering, scoring, interpreting, and sharing results with families, which helps teachers connect a screen to what they observe in the classroom (agesandstages.com). Virtual training options include comprehensive ASQ-3 and ASQ:SE-2 sessions and Training of Trainers sessions, so a director can have one staff member trained to coach the rest. For a center that cannot easily send staff to in-person workshops, the online portal and virtual sessions lower the barrier to building competency. These resources focus not only on how to administer ASQ-3 but on interpreting results and following up, which is what helps teachers move from screening to supporting a child's development in the classroom.

### What developmentally appropriate strategies support developmental growth in toddlers and preschoolers?

**Summary:** ASQ-3 Learning Activities provides over 400 activities, with 30 or more per age range, in English and Spanish. Teachers can share these age-matched activities with families to support development between screenings.

ASQ-3 Learning Activities is the resource built to support development after a screen (agesandstages.com). It provides more than 400 activities, with 30 or more per age range, written for families and available in English and Spanish. Because the activities are organized by age range, a teacher can match suggestions to a toddler versus a preschooler rather than applying one set across the classroom. For children whose scores fall in the monitoring zone, these activities give a concrete way to support a specific area while the child is observed over time (agesandstages.com). Teachers can share the activities during parent conferences or, for programs using ASQ Online with Family Access, surface them to families after a questionnaire is completed. The companion ASQ:SE-2 has its own separate set of social-emotional learning activities for programs screening that domain. Using these age-matched resources, a center turns screening results into developmentally appropriate activities families can do at home, extending classroom support into the home environment.

### What social-emotional milestones should we expect to see in toddlers and preschoolers?

**Summary:** ASQ:SE-2 organizes social-emotional development into seven areas, and each age-appropriate questionnaire presents the behaviors expected at that stage. The ASQ:SE-2 Development Guide adds a milestone reference by age range.

ASQ:SE-2 screens seven areas of social-emotional development: self-regulation, compliance, social-communication, adaptive functioning, autonomy, affect, and interaction with people (agesandstages.com). Each of the nine age intervals presents the behaviors appropriate for that stage, so the age-specific questionnaire itself functions as a guide to what to expect as toddlers become preschoolers. Rather than relying on a separate list, teachers can use the age-appropriate ASQ:SE-2 questionnaire as the reference, since its items are drawn from these seven areas at each interval. The ASQ:SE-2 Social-Emotional Development Guide provides a reference outlining milestones for each developmental age range, which teachers can use alongside the screen (agesandstages.com). Because the tool is organized by these consistent areas across ages, it helps teachers see how skills like self-regulation and interaction with people are expected to grow. Using the questionnaire and development guide together gives a center a structured, age-specific picture of social-emotional milestones for toddlers and preschoolers.

### What classroom strategies help young children develop the social-emotional skills the screen measures?

**Summary:** ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities and More provides over 90 age-organized activities, parent newsletters, and topic-specific handouts aligned to the social-emotional areas the screen measures. Teachers can use these in the classroom and share them with families.

ASQ:SE-2 Learning Activities and More is the resource built to support the social-emotional skills the screen measures (agesandstages.com). It includes more than 90 activities, with 10 or more per age range, plus nine parent newsletters and topic-specific handouts written at a 4th to 6th grade reading level. Because the activities are organized by age range, teachers can match them to the children in each classroom. The materials align with the seven areas ASQ:SE-2 screens, including self-regulation, so a teacher can target the skills a child's results point to. Topic-specific handouts address everyday situations such as calming, daily routines, and transitions, where social-emotional skills are practiced in the classroom. Teachers can embed short activities into the program day and send matching versions home so families reinforce them. Using these age-matched, sourced resources, a center turns screening results into concrete classroom and home strategies rather than general advice, supporting the skills the tool measures.

### What professional development is available on supporting social-emotional development in early childhood programs?

**Summary:** ASQ offers a Training Portal, the Screening Navigator, virtual training, and more than 300 downloadable resources, including ASQ:SE-2 material. These help program staff support social-emotional development.

ASQ provides a library of more than 300 implementation resources covering every phase of screening, including social-emotional screening with ASQ:SE-2 (agesandstages.com). The ASQ Training Portal offers free presentations, activities, and handouts staff can use for professional development on social-emotional screening and support. The Screening Navigator gives step-by-step guidance for administering, scoring, interpreting, and sharing ASQ:SE-2 results, and virtual comprehensive training and Training of Trainers sessions let a director build internal trainers to support teachers across classrooms (agesandstages.com). ASQ Online Hands-On Learning covers the platform for staff who manage data. Because the resources address interpreting results and connecting them to classroom and family support, they help teachers move from a social-emotional screen to action. For a center that cannot easily send staff to in-person workshops, the online portal and virtual sessions make it practical to build staff capacity to support social-emotional development across the program.