Domain |
How it is tied to learning |
Physical
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- Personal care (hygiene, feeding, dressing,)
- Nutrition
- Safety
- Motor (Movement) Skills
- Active physical play
- Perceptual-motor (senses, effort, direction,)
- Gross (large) motor (running, throwing, …)
- Fine (small) motor (hands, fingers, feet, toes)
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Cognitive
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- Cognitive approaches to learning and self-regulation
- Maintain attention
- Self-comfort
- Curiosity and initiative
- Self-control of feelings and behavior
- Engagement and persistence
- Skills of inquiry
- Observe, investigate, document, communicate
- Knowledge of the natural/physical world
- Understanding properties and events
- Cause and effect
- Understanding relationship between cause/effect
- Classification
- Learning the attributes of objects by exploring
- Compare, match, sort, categorize
- Finding similarities and differences
- Symbol
- Number
- Understanding quantity (amount, degree)
- Assigning a numerical symbol to quantity
- Counting
- Measurement
- Awareness of difference in properties
- (size, length, weight, capacity, volume)
- Seriation (order 3 or more by comparison)
- (small/medium/large, loud/louder/loudest)
- Time (sequence of events, rhythm, yesterday/ tomorrow)
- Patterning
- Recognize, reproduce, repeating sequences
- Spatial relationships Experiences an object’s position in relation to others
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Language
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- Symbol/symbolic reasoning
- Sounds and letters are put together to represent things
- Receptive language
- Listening, understanding, responding
- Expressive language
- Speaking, communicating, conversation
- Graphic (written) language/literacy
- Interest in print & books, phonology, pre-reading, reading
- Symbol, letter, print knowledge, pre-writing, writing
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Social
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- Skills learning with adults
- Can stay at school without parent
- Can respond/enjoy adults other than parents
- Adults will help in times of need
- Adult will not always solve problems
- Skills learned with peers
- Different approaches work for different peers
- Cooperation and turn taking
- Lead and follow
- Sustain relationships and helping peers
- Share materials, equipment, people, ideas
- Asserting rights and self defense
- Negotiating skills and solving conflicts
- Anticipate and avoid problems
- Realistic expectations and valuing differences
- Skills learning in a group
- Respect
- Responsibility
- Compassion
- Tolerance
- Group identity
- Follow and adapt to routines and expectations
- How to enter and exit situations
- Deal with delay of gratification (patience)
- Skills learned as an individual
- Self-help and self-care
- Make choices and initiate own activities
- Cope with rejection, hurt feelings, disappointment
- Take responsibility
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Emotional
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- Ability to deal with feelings
- Notice, label, and accept feelings
- Express feelings in appropriate ways
- Deal with feelings of others
- Resolve inner fears, conflicts
- Ability to exercise judgment
- Notice, label, and make choices
- Think through consequences
- Evaluate effectiveness of choices
- Learn to take another viewpoint
- Enjoying one’s self and one’s power
- Acquire a sense of self
- Develop self-confidence and self-esteem
- Build trust in self and others
- Reveal own personality
- Learn to take risks & learn from mistakes
- Become competent in several areas
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Creative
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- Flexibility (shifting from 1 idea to another)
- Fluency (producing many ideas)
- Sensitivity (awareness (moods, textures, senses,)
- Imagination / Originality
- Risk Taking / Elaboration (pushing boundaries)
- Self as a resource (awareness, confidence in ability)
- Experience (to build mastery to build upon)
- Visual and Performing Arts
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