HIGHER ORDER THINKING

Higher Order Thinking

Developmental Stages: Pre-K Ages 4-5

Mariana Lora

Grand Canyon University ECH-640

July 3,2019
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Child’s Name Date

SOCIAL SKILLS
❏ Child Plays well with others.
❏ Child Interacts with adult
❏ Child demonstrates taking care of own needs
❏ Regulates his/her emotions
❏ Shares materials in classroom and outdoors
❏ Is able to recognize others feelings
❏ Child suggest solution to solve a problem
❏ Participates in groups cooperatively

PHYSICAL SKILLS
❏ Child is able to move from one place to another avoiding people and objects
❏ Climbs up/down stairs alternating feet
❏ Demonstrates balance by jumping and landing on two feet
❏ Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative objects, throws ball or traps ball with body
❏ Child is able to use fine - motor skills by button,lace,zipper
❏ Child is able to write holding tools with three finger grip
❏ Uses eating utensils
❏ Uses hand motion to songs
❏ Child is able to snip and then cut along line

COGNITIVE
❏ Counts upto twenty objects accurately
❏ Counts number and connects to each object
❏ Uses prepositional words accurate( the ball is under the chair)
❏ Child recognize and describes basic shapes
❏ Child makes or extends patterns( clap,clap, stomp,stomp)
❏ Uses scientific knowledge as he/she explores things in environment
❏ Child is able to identify problems and predictions
❏ Child is able to compare and classify
❏ Demonstrates knowledge about living and nonliving things
❏ Shows awareness of life in different environment or habitat
❏ Child engages in social play interacts in pretend play
❏ Child uses symbolic thinking to plan or construct (drawing,movement,dramatization)
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Child’s Name Date

LANGUAGE
❏ Child respond appropriately to questions and simple statements
❏ Child follows one or two step direction
❏ Child speaks clear and understood by others
❏ Describes objects and familiar items
❏ Is the child able to relate past experiences
❏ Does child use language rule when communicating
❏ Child stays on topic when conversing
❏ Identifies some letters in alphabet
❏ Child uses letter sound to understand sequence of spoken words

EMOTIONAL SKILLS
❏ Child demonstrates know about himself
❏ Child talks about family as caring members
❏ Child compromises when asked
❏ Child understands danger relations to keep safe
❏ Child demonstrates ability to stay motivated
❏ Demonstrates self control
❏ Regulates emotions by describing needs and wants
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Reflection

The age group selected is according to age band for preschoolers. The developmental
checklist includes characteristics that align with child readiness for this age. In
accordance to ( Kids Sense (2017) child development is mastery skills learned in a life
span. The early three years of life are important to stimulate the devemonetal growth. To
keep track of the development is important to know and recognize when a child needs
help to bring him to the next level of mastery. To do that, teachers can use strategies of
higher order thinking that will promote the development growth. This will allow the
teacher to know if a child is a candidate for possible evaluations that require professional
attention.
Developmental checklist are used as a guide to observe where the child is meeting his
goal and if he/she is at the right age range. To help students meet their potential teachers
can identify plan effectively, by process, content and product. These can be differentiated
with students interest and readiness level to max his motivation and higher order of
comprehension.
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References

Kids Sense (2017),What is Child Development,retrieved from,

https://childdevelopment.com.au/areas-of-concern/what-is-child-development/?pri
nt=pdf
Kathleen Dudden Rowlands (2007), Check It Out!
Checklist to support Students Learning, retrieved from,
​https://www.siprep.org/uploaded/ProfessionalDevelopment/Readings/Checklists.pdf