Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Motivation to Learn includes the foundation Engagement and Perseverance. Children from 11 through 23 months spend time trying to accomplish goals, sometimes on their own and sometimes with caregiver support.
Example 1
Text on screen: Tries to accomplish a goals
On screen: 16-month-old Riley plays with a baby doll. She picks up a doll onesie with an attached toy pacifier. She presses the pacifier to the doll’s mouth. She turns the pacifier over in her hands while looking at it. She puts the pacifier to the doll’s eye, then tries to insert it in the doll’s mouth again. She sets the pacifier aside and covers the doll with the onesie. She reaches for the pacifier again and puts it to the doll’s face one more time.
Example 2
Text on screen: Sometimes continues working through an activity with caregiver support
On screen: 19-month-old Pedro is playing with a play tool kit. A caregiver hands him a peg to put into a hole in the little tool bench.
Caregiver 1: (in Spanish) Very good, Pedro. Do you want to put in another one? Here. Here you can put in the other one.
On screen: He places the peg inside the hole.
Caregiver 1: Very good, Pedro. And if you’re going to take out, Abby. With the hammer, do you want to take it out with the hammer? To tighten them, yes.
On screen: The caregiver hands Pedro a wooden hammer. Both holding the handle, they hammer in a peg. Pedro watches intently.
Caregiver 1: Hard. Let’s take out the screw.
On screen: The caregiver places her hand over Pedro’s to hold the handle and then they use the hammer’s claw to pull out the peg. When it pops out, Pedro’s eyes and mouth open wide. He leans over to look for it.
Caregiver 1: Did you see? The screw came out. Are you going to put another one in?
On screen: Pedro tries to put a peg into the hole, but it falls out.
Caregiver 1: Now it’s Pedro’s turn. Hit it here, Pedro. Oh, it didn’t go in, Pedro.
On screen: The caregiver places a peg into the tool bench.
Caregiver 1: Now.
On screen: Holding the hammer by himself, Pedro hammers the peg, knocking it out of the hole.
Caregiver 1: Very good, Pedro. Oh Pedro, it came out.
On screen: He picks it up, starts to put it in, then hands it to the caregiver.
Caregiver 1: Do you want me to help you? Okay.
Example 3
Text on screen: Sometimes continues working through an activity with caregiver support
On screen: 18-month-old Isabella and her caregiver are at a table with stacking cups. Isabella holds a cup in each hand. She watches a green cup roll. She catches it between the cups in her hands. When she lets go of the red cup to pick up the green one, the red one rolls farther away.
Caregiver 2: Oh, that was cool, huh? How it rolled?
On screen: Isabella reaches out and picks up the red cup. She stands it up. She moves the red cup closer to her. She watches the green cup roll back and forth and holds her hand over it. When it is right under her hand, she picks it up.
Isabella places the green cup into the red cup and twists it around a few times. She pulls the green cup out. She puts the yellow cup on top of the red cup, stacking them. She places the green cup into the yellow cup. She has the medium cup on the bottom, biggest in the middle, smallest on top.