La. Admin. Code tit. 28 § CXXXVI-301

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 8, August 20, 2024

Section CXXXVI-301 - Approaches to Learning

A. Initiative and Curiosity. Standard 1: Children engage in multiple and varied play-based experiences.

1. Infants, Birth-11 months:

a. Explore objects, materials, and/or people in their immediate environment using their senses. Interact with materials by manipulating them in a variety of ways (e.g., grasp, mouth, bang).

b. Demonstrate interest in others (e.g., turn head toward familiar voice).

c. Meet one's own needs using simple behaviors (e.g., feed oneself finger foods).

d. Select a particular material, toy, or place of interest to explore on their own.

2. Young Toddlers, 9-18 months:

a. Explore and interact with familiar objects and materials in their environment. Use everyday objects and toys as intended in their play (e.g., build with blocks, stir with spoons).

b. Demonstrate interest in their surroundings.

c. Attempt to help with simple tasks and activities.

d. Express choices and preferences.

3. Older Toddlers, 16-36 months:

a. Explore both familiar and unfamiliar materials, activities, and experiences. Explore new ways to use familiar objects during play (e.g., hold a banana to the ear and talk into it like a phone).

b. Seek information about familiar objects, people, and experiences.

c. Demonstrate increasing interest and independence in completing simple tasks.

d. Insist on preferences and express dislikes.

4. Three Year Olds, 36-48 months:

a. Explore unfamiliar objects, materials, and experiences. Combine materials in new and unique ways (e.g., put blocks together to create a road for cars).

b. Seek information about unfamiliar objects, people, and experiences.

c. Complete a variety of simple tasks independently.

5. Four Year Olds, 48-60 months:

a. Seek out and engage with unfamiliar objects, materials, and experiences.

b. Seek information and contribute to discussions about a variety of new topics, ideas, and activities.

c. Complete multi-step tasks independently.

B. Attention, Engagement, and Persistence. Standard 2: Children engage in activities and tasks with attention, focus, and persistence.

1. Infants, Birth-11 months:

a. Establish eye contact with a familiar person. Attend to new objects and familiar adults in the environment.

b. Intentionally take action to make things happen (e.g., shake rattle to make noise).

2. Young Toddlers, 9-18 months:

a. Focus attention on people, objects, and activities of interest.

b. Repeat self-selected tasks over and over again.

c. Complete self-selected tasks and then spontaneously express pleasure at accomplishments (e.g., smile, clap).

3. Older Toddlers, 16-36 months:

a. Focus attention to complete a short, simple task with adult support.

b. Complete activities of choice from start to finish with adult support.

c. Remain actively engaged in activities of interest and protest if interrupted.

4. Three Year Olds, 36-48 months:

a. Maintain focus on activities of interest despite distractions.

b. Continue working on self-selected activities despite setbacks (e.g., try again after the block tower falls down).

c. Express goals and then work to achieve them with prompting and support (e.g., When asked, a child says, "I want to make something" and then goes to the art center and draws a picture).

5. Four Year Olds, 48-60 months:

a. Maintain focus on adult-directed activities with adult support.

b. Persist with a challenging task despite interruptions and disruptions.

c. Express simple goals that extend over time, make plans, and follow through to complete them (e.g., Child says, "I want to play doctor after breakfast. Liam is going to play with me.", and then does so after eating).

C. Problem Solving. Standard 3: Children demonstrate flexibility and creativity by using a variety of strategies to solve problems.

1. Infants, Birth-11 months:

a. interact with objects in a variety of ways and notice the effects of their own actions;

b. attend to objects and/or activities in the environment;

c. solve simple problems and accomplish tasks using gestures, movement, and/or vocalizations (e.g., roll over to reach a toy, cry to express needs).

2. Young Toddlers, 9-18 months:

a. repeat behaviors to obtain desired results;

b. observe the ways in which others interact with objects and materials;

c. try out one or two strategies to accomplish tasks and solve problems with adult support.

3. Older Toddlers, 16-36 months:

a. experiment with the effects of simple actions on different objects (e.g., use a scoop to put sand into a bucket, then attempt to use a scoop to put water into a bowl);

b. observe and imitate actions of others when attempting to accomplish tasks or solve problems;

c. try out a variety of strategies to accomplish tasks and/or solve problems, often by trial and error.

4. Three Year Olds, 36-48 months:

a. make predictions based on past experiences;

b. recall and use previously successful strategies to complete tasks;

c. purposefully use a variety of strategies, changing the approach as needed, to accomplish tasks or solve problems.

5. Four Year Olds, 48-60 months:

a. make predictions and explain reasoning;

b. apply prior knowledge and experiences to complete new tasks and solve new problems;

c. communicate the steps used to solve problems and/or accomplish tasks.

La. Admin. Code tit. 28, § CXXXVI-301

Promulgated by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, LR 50955 (7/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17:6(A)(10), R.S. 17:407.22, R.S. 17:407.23.