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- CompSATEarly learning and care self-assessment toolkit that accompanies the ECE Competencies
- Desired Results (DR) Field TrainingStatewide trainings that help early childhood administrators and staff use the Desired Results system and DRDP assessment tool to improve child development outcomes
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Video Transcript

Birth–4 Months

Approaches to Learning

Narrator: The Approaches to Learning domain includes the strand Goal-Directed Learning. In the first four months, infants use simple movements and vocalizations to explore people and things and make their needs known.

Example 1

Text on screen: Tries to reach things

On screen: A caregiver sits cradling 4-month-old Quetzaly. Quetzaly looks at a book her caregiver is holding.

Caregiver: (speaking Spanish) The baby. Look. It’s good that you can raise your arms.

On screen: Quetzaly reaches toward the book, and her caregiver encourages her.

Caregiver: Touch it. You can touch it. What’s that? Touch it. Yes? Touch it.

On screen: Quetzaly reaches again for the book. She then reaches toward her caregiver’s thumb and grasps it.

Caregiver: Oh. You want my finger. My finger. Yes, (inaudible) That. That. You want to touch it.

On screen: Quetzaly touches her caregiver’s hand and then reaches toward the book.

Caregiver: You want to touch the baby? The baby. Touch it.

Example 2

Text on screen: Moves arms and legs to get to know their own space and body

On screen: 4-month-old Anaya lies on her back and joyfully moves her arms and legs while she smiles at her mother who sits next to her.

Mother: You wanna try to roll over?

Anaya: (vocalizing)

Example 3

Text on screen: Cries when hungry, tired, or needs comfort

On screen: 1-month-old Noah squirms and whimpers in discomfort while cradled in his mother’s arms

Noah: (fussing)

Mother: You wanna try to grab my finger? You wanna try to grab my finger?

On screen: Noah looks up at his mother and grasps her finger. He calms briefly.

Mother: There we go.

On screen: Noah releases his mother’s finger and begins squirming and crying again.

Mother: My baby. Hey.

On screen: Noah’s mother shifts to hold Noah upright against her chest, and he continues to cry.

Noah: (fussing)