Exploring Learning Domains

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Exploring Learning Domains
Exploring Learning Domains
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What Experts Tell Us Social Foundations
What Experts Tell Us Social Foundations

• According to the National Academy of Sciences,
  children entering school with well developed
  social and cognitive skills are
• most likely to succeed in school
• least likely to need costly intervention services
  later in life

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Social Foundations
Social Foundations

• Children entering school are more likely to
  succeed if they can
• Accurately identify emotions
• Relate to others in positive ways
• Manage feelings
• Enjoy learning
• Approach new learning enthusiastically
• Pay attention
• Work independently and cooperatively

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Social Foundations
Social Foundations
60 of children enter school with the cognitive
skills they need to succeed 40 enter with the
social and emotional skills they need to succeed
in kindergarten
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Social Foundations
Social Foundations
development may be viewed as an increasing
capacity for self-regulation, seen particularly
in the childs ability to function more
independently in a personal and social context
The ability to think, retrieve, and remember
information, solve problems, and engage in other
complex symbolic activities involved in oral
language, reading, writing, mathematics, and
social behavior is dependent on the development
of attention, memory, and executive function.
Difficulties with these more cognitive aspects of
self-regulation can lead to problems in school,
in relationships, and in life.
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What Experts Tell Us Language and Literacy
What Experts Tell Us Language and Literacy
Language Listening Speaking Reading Phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,
comprehension Writing
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Language and Literacy
Language and Literacy

• Children who are functionally illiterate are more
  likely to
• Drop out of high school
• Exhibit behavior problems
• Be chronically ill
• Live in poverty
• Have children who are illiterate

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Language and Literacy
Language and Literacy

• Children who learn to read are likely to
• Graduate from high school and college
• Have strong social skills
• Enjoy a healthier life
• Earn a living to support themselves/family
• Have children who are literate

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Language and Literacy
Language and Literacy
90 of children reading below grade level in 4th
grade will improve, but never reach grade level
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Language and Literacy
Language and Literacy
Children who are motivated to read spend more
time reading
Motivation matters!
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What Experts Tell Us Mathematics
What Experts Tell Us Mathematics

• Early experiences in mathematics, in engaging and
  encouraging climates
• Develops young childrens confidence in their
  ability to use and understand math.
• Develops childrens dispositions for curiosity,
  imagination, flexibility, inventiveness, and
  persistence

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Mathematics
Mathematics
Early math skills relate to achievement in math,
reading and science. Kindergarten skills in
pattern recognition, measurement, and advanced
numbers are predictive of 8th grade outcomes.
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What Experts Tell Us Physical Well-being and
Motor Development
What Experts Tell Us Physical Well-being and
Motor Development

• Healthy development impacts all domains
• Well developed gross motor and fine motor skills
  supports increased confidence
• Important for making healthy and safe choices
  throughout life

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What Experts Tell Us Science
What Experts Tell Us Science
In contrast to the commonly held and outmoded
view that young children are concrete and
simplistic thinkers, the research evidence now
shows that their thinking is surprisingly
sophisticated ... Children entering school
already have substantial knowledge of the natural
world, which can be built on to develop their
understanding of scientific concepts. National
Research Council
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Science
Science
Science inquiry Science concepts Scientific
reasoning Nature of science Doing science
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What Experts Tell Us Social Studies
What Experts Tell Us Social Studies
Social studiesoffers the hope that the focus of
education will be on the development of
effective, efficient, ethical children who will
approach their world nonsimplistically and
thoughtfully. With the help of good teachers,
children will not only absorb the content that
focuses on citizenship education in all its
permutations, but also learn how to learn and how
to consider multiple perspectives. - Mindes, 2005
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Social Studies
Social Studies

• Innate curiosity about the world
• Moving from self to the world
• Advancing civic learning and engagement
• Integrated approach
• Critical thinking
• Creative problem solving
• Understanding multiple perspectives
• Communication
• Ability to assess evidence, conflicting
  interpretations, and past examples of change

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Conclusion
Social Foundations
Language Literacy
Mathematics
Social Studies
Science
Physical Well-being Motor Development