1. Cognitive Development:
This includes the ability to recognize, remember, organize information, and make connections between different objects or ideas.
2. Social and Emotional Development:
This refers to children's ability to interact with peers and adults, express emotions in appropriate ways, develop self-control, and take responsibility for their actions.
3. Physical Development:
This covers a child’s coordination, balance, strength, dexterity, gross motor skills (running, jumping), and fine motor skills (drawing, holding a pencil).
4. Language Development:
Here we measure progress in understanding language (words/sentences) as well as expressing themselves verbally in meaningful ways.
5. General Knowledge:
A child’s ability to understand basic concepts such as numbers, shapes, colors, or the days of the week.
6. Following Directions:
This pertains to a child’s capacity to listen and follow instructions.
7. Problem-Solving:
This includes the ability to process information, recognize patterns and find solutions in both familiar and unfamiliar situations.
8. Socializing with Peers:
Interacting socially with other children within groups or one-on-one settings.
9. Self-Help Skills:
Eating, brushing teeth, getting dressed independently, etc.
10. Pre-Reading and Pre-Writing Skills:
Recognizing letters, sounds of words, writing letters/words correctly, etc.