C4L Processes

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C4L Processes

C4L develops cognitive processes that are both domain specific and applicable across all four domains. This table identifies the ten C4L process goals, with examples of relevant classroom skills.

Processes Prekindergarten Skills

1. Communicating and Representing
  • Develops clarity and precision
  • Includes beginning modeling
  • Writes for various purposes
  • Communicates findings, explanations, and reflections

2. Cooperating
  • Plans, initiates, and completes learning activities with peers
  • Joins in cooperative play
  • Models or teaches peers
  • Helps, shares, and cooperates in a group
3. Comparing and Classifying
  • Compares characteristics of objects
  • Notes similarities and differences
  • Sorts and classifies by one or more attributes
  • Compares quantities
4. Creating, Imagining, and Innovating
  • Creates products
  • Thinks flexibly
5. Curiosity—Asking Questions and Seeking New Information
  • Investigates problems
  • Explores new topics
  • Seeks in-depth learning
6. Observation
  • Uses senses to process information
  • Describes observations accurately
  • Writes, draws, and labels observations
7. Persisting, Attending, and Self-Regulation
  • Demonstrates executive control
  • Maintains focus and attention
  • Shows independence
  • Listens with understanding
8. Reasoning and Problem Solving
  • Uses the scientific method
  • Seeks multiple solutions to a question, task, or problem
  • Makes inferences
  • Engages in trial and error
  • Connects the new to the known
  • Uses evidence to reach conclusions
9. Seeking to Make Sense
  • Thinks interdependently
  • Demonstrates strategic thinking
  • Coordinates evidence and experience to generate explanations
  • Understands patterns and structure
10. Using Tools Strategically
  • Uses tools to investigate mathematical concepts
  • Uses tools to investigate scientific phenomena
  • Uses text to achieve purposes

Scope and Sequence

The C4L curriculum incorporates all processes within each unit, but some units place a stronger emphasis on a particular process goal. This table provides a scope and sequence to demonstrate how the ten C4L learning processes are addressed within and across the curriculum.

Processes Unit
Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 6
1. Communicating and Representing X X X X X
2. Cooperating X X X
3. Comparing and Classifying X X X X X X
4. Creating, Imagining, and Innovating X X X X
5. Curiosity—Asking Questions and Seeking New Information X X
6. Observation X X
7. Persisting, Attending, and Self-Regulation X X X X
8. Reasoning and Problem Solving X X X X X X
9. Seeking to Make Sense X X X X
10. Using Tools Strategically X X X

 

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