Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Approaches to Learning domain, the strand Goal-Directed Learning includes the foundation Problem-Solving. Children from 4 through 11 months use one or two actions to achieve simple goals or get their needs met.
Example 1
Text on screen: Uses one or two actions to achieve simple goals
On screen: 9-month-old Aaliyah lies on her stomach on a rug with a few toys around her. Her caregiver sits nearby. Aaliyah looks ahead notices a rattle. She begins to scoot forward, pulling with her arms and pushing with her legs. She moves over toys that are in her path.
Caregiver 1: You want to crawl closer to Sheni?
On screen: Aaliyah stops when the rattle is in reach. She grasps it and mouths it.
Example 2
Text on screen: Uses one or two actions to achieve simple goals
On screen: 11-month-old Sebastian sits on the floor. His caregiver sits in front of him holding a mystery box that has a small opening in the top. Sebastian reaches into the box and pulls his hand out with nothing in it. He adjusts the way he is sitting and reaches in again. The caregiver tilts the box toward him. He pulls out a fish, holds it out toward his caregiver and then drops it.
Caregiver 2: (whispering) Fish!
On screen: Sebastian reaches in again, digs around inside the box, and pulls out an airplane. He looks at it then drops it.
Caregiver 2: Airplane.
On screen: Sebastian reaches in again and digs around but doesn’t find anything.
Example 3
Text on screen: Uses one or two actions to achieve simple goals
On screen: 8-month-old Everett is trying to climb up onto a mattress on the floor. He tries to bring his leg up but doesn’t make it. He looks over at his caregiver.
Everett: (vocalizing)
Caregiver 3: What’re you gonna do?
On screen: He keeps trying to climb up.
Caregiver 3: Oh! Pull up. Pull up!
Everett: (excited vocalizing)
Caregiver 3: I know. Say “That knee keeps getting stuck, Katie.” Huh?
Everett: (vocalizing)
On screen: Everett uses his arms to try to pull himself forward. He lifts and kicks his legs, trying to get his knee onto the mattress.
Caregiver 3: Yeah, see, that knee keeps getting stuck. You got it! You got it!
Everett: (grunting)
On screen: Everett pulls forward one more time and gets both knees up onto the mattress. He grins at his caregiver.
Caregiver 3: You did it!
Everett: (laughing)
Caregiver 3: Yeah, you made it to the top.
On screen: Everett backs up and lets his legs slide back onto the carpet.
Caregiver 3: And slide back down.
Everett: (vocalizing)
Caregiver 3: Do you want that yellow ball?
On screen: Everett climbs back up easily and crawls across the mattress stopping when he reaches a baby doll.
Everett: (excited vocalizing)
Caregiver 3: Oh. Did you find the baby?