Revised Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards (Goals for Our Students)The Tennessee Early Childhood Education Early Learning Developmental Standards, or TN-ELDS, were first developed in 2004 to provide documentation of the continuum of developmental milestones from birth through age five based on the research about the processes, sequences, and long term consequences of early learning and development.
The standards for 4 year-olds were revised and adopted by the State Board of Education in January 2018. These revised standards provide a direct alignment with the content areas found in Tennessee’s state English language arts and mathematics standards as well as the Tennessee state standards for kindergarten.
The birth-48 months standards were revised in 2013 and adopted by the State Board of Education in January 2014. These revised standards continue to be a resource for educators, child care providers, and families who work with children in this age range.Please click below to learn more about the new academic curriculum called HighScope that we are using at Fair Garden this year.