Blackfeet Early Childhood Center <> Head Start Child Outcomes Framework <> Learning

PO Box 528
615 South Piegan
Browning, Montana 59417
406-338-7370
Email: becc@inaksim.com

Head Start Child Outcomes Framework Approaches to Learning

DOMAIN	DOMAIN ELEMENT	INDICATORS
	Initiative & Curiosity	► Chooses to participate in an increasing variety of tasks and activities. ► Develops increased ability to make independent choices. ► Approaches tasks and activities with increased flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness. ► Grows in eagerness to learn about and discuss a growing range of topics, ideas, and tasks.
	Engagement & Persistence	► Grows in abilities to persist in and complete a variety of tasks, activities, projects, and experiences. ► Demonstrates increasing ability to set goals and develop and follow through on plans. ► Shows growing capacity to maintain concentration over time on a task, question, set of directions or interactions, despite distractions and intrruptions.
	Reasoning & Problem Solving	► Develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem. ► Grows in recognizing and solving problems through active exploration, including trial and error, and interactions and discussions with peers and adults. ► Develops increasing abilities to classify, compare and contrast objects, events, and experiences.

× Indicates the 4 specific Domain Elements and 9 Indicators that are legislatively mandated.

Eight Domains of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework

Approaches to Learning ¦ Creative Arts ¦ Language Development ¦ Literacy ¦ Mathematics
Physical Health & Development ¦ Science ¦ Social & Emotional Development