Approaches to Learning

Creativity: Actively engage in learning with curiosity, flexibility, and openness to new ideas.

Self-Regulation: Engage in learning to effectively plan and problem solve. 

Critical Thinking: Actively inquire and reflect about new ideas and activities.

Communication: Actively engage in conversations with adults and peers.

Collaboration: Actively engage in learning with other people.

Independently interact with a variety of materials through multiple play activities. 

Self-select play activities to support own curiosity and to engage in pretend and imaginative play (e.g., testing theories, acting out imagination). 

Choose materials/props and use novel ways to represent ideas, characters, and objects in symbolic play.

Demonstrate a willingness to engage in new experiences and activities.

Maintain focus appropriate to completing a task and/or learning activity. 

Persist in solving a problem or question, with adult prompting.

Reflect and plan a logical series of steps to accomplish a task, such as writing a message, completing a puzzle, drawing a picture, or building a block structure. 

Seek additional clarity to further own knowledge (e.g., asks what, how, why, when, where, and/or what if).

Demonstrate an awareness of connection between prior and new knowledge.

Identify a problem and attempt multiple ways to solve it, with or without assistance. 

Ask and respond to questions with peers and adults in individual and group activities.

Seek assistance and/or information when needed to complete a task.

Engage in play-based, student-directed activities with a peer or peers (e.g., dramatic play, block building, symbolic play in recess) for at least 15 consecutive minutes, at multiple times throughout the year.

Demonstrate a willingness to collaborate with others to solve a problem.