Voluntarily directs {his/her} attention towards a person or situation
Voluntarily directs {his/her} attention towards a person or situation
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What mastery looks like
Shows no attempt to voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation
- Shows no attempt to voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation
- No observable behavior matching this milestone
Occasionally or inconsistently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation
- Occasionally or inconsistently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation
- Requires significant support or prompting
Frequently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation with some support
- Frequently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation with some support
- Shows the behavior in familiar contexts
Consistently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation across contexts
- Consistently voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation across contexts
- Performs independently without prompting
Readily voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation and extends the behavior
- Readily voluntarily directs their attention towards a person or situation and extends the behavior
- Shows flexibility and adaptation in approach
Related activities
No activities directly mapped to this yet. These are age and domain-appropriate alternatives.
Cause and Effect Discovery
Parent helps baby discover that actions produce results — kicking a mobile, shaking a rattle, batting a dangling toy. The agent coaches the parent to observe whether baby connects their own movements to outcomes, building the foundational academic skill of causal reasoning.
Sort It
Parent and toddler sort objects by one attribute — colour or size. The agent coaches the parent to observe the child's ability to identify a shared property, group items accordingly, and explain their sorting logic.
Letter Safari
Parent and child hunt for letters in the environment — on signs, books, packaging, clothing labels. The agent coaches the parent to observe the child's letter recognition, interest in print, and understanding that letters carry meaning.
Little Scientist
Parent observes baby's systematic exploration of objects — turning, mouthing, banging, dropping, comparing. The agent coaches the parent to recognise these behaviours as scientific inquiry: experimentation, observation, and hypothesis-testing in miniature.
Sound Garden
Parent plays different gentle sounds for baby — crinkling paper, tapping a glass, humming, shaking a jar of rice — and the agent coaches the parent to observe baby's reactions to different timbres, volumes, and rhythms. This activity explores early aesthetic sensitivity through auditory experience.
First Marks
Parent offers crayons or finger paint and the agent coaches the parent to observe toddler's first mark-making — scribbles, dots, lines — as expressions of early aesthetic creativity and motor control.
Formal assessments
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Standardised assessment view
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