IgniteTable Learning Domains, Subdomains, and Skill Descriptors

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Domain: Relationship Skills

Subdomain: Participation

1. Demonstrates willingness to participate in a group activity
2. Demonstrates ability to initiate positive peer interactions while working within a group
3. Demonstrates ability to sustain cooperative interactions within a group

Subdomain: Engagement

1. Engages in prosocial behaviors with other children
2. Sustains interactions with at least two or more other children for increasing periods of time
3. Engages in joint play (i.e., coordinating goals, planning, and following rules) with more than one child at a time

Subdomain: Social Problems

1. Demonstrates sharing successfully
2. Demonstrates sharing and compromising successfully
3. Demonstrates sharing, compromising, and/or negotiating successfully

Subdomain: Active Listening

1. Follows visual and physical prompts with assistance (at least two movements) during a group activity
2. Follows visual and physical prompts (at least three movements) during a group activity
3. Follows visual and physical prompts (at least four movements) during a group activity

Subdomain: Communication

1. Identifies ways people communicate
2. Explores basic signs of nonverbal communication
3. Engages in play using alternative forms of communication

Domain: Social Awareness

Subdomain: Takes Turns

1. Takes turns successfully when prompted
2. Successfully demonstrates taking turns without prompts
3. Successfully initiates taking turns, without prompts, to complete a group goal

Subdomain: Understands Basic Needs of Others

1. Identifies basic needs of others
2. Demonstrates meeting the basic needs of others
3. Takes responsibility for meeting the basic needs of others

Subdomain: Understands Basic Feelings of Others

1. Describes the feelings of others based on physical characteristics
2. Describes the feelings of others based on the environment/situation
3. Predicts/identifies causes of others’ feelings

Subdomain: Acceptance of Others

1. Demonstrates understanding of diverse people
2. Explores different types of communities by building a neighborhood
3. Explores ways to make communities inclusive

Domain: Self-Awareness

Subdomain: Delays Gratification

1. Delays gratification during a group task
2. Ignores distractors while delaying gratification during a group task
3. Identifies alternative ways to keep busy while delaying gratification during a group task

Subdomain: Identity

1. Creates a self-portrait
2. Draws a personal interest or interest in the world around them
3. Engages in appropriate self-care activity based on a given mood

Subdomain: Understands Own Basic Needs

1. Identifies their own basic needs
2. Demonstrates meeting their own basic needs
3. Takes responsibility for meeting their own needs

Domain: Responsible Decision-Making

Subdomain: Focuses Attention

1. Stays on task with cues
2. Works steadily with attention to task
3. Ignores distractors while completing a task

Subdomain: Economics

1. Engages in pretend-play scenarios related to spending
2. Engages in pretend-play scenarios related to saving
3. Engages in pretend-play scenarios related to giving

Subdomain: Accountability

1. Evaluates the consequences of actions in an at-home setting
2. Evaluates the consequences of actions in a school setting
3. Evaluates the consequences of actions in a community, (uncontrolled) nonschool setting

Domain: Self-Management

Subdomain: Follows Directions

1. Correctly carries out a one-step request
2. Accurately follows two-step directions
3. Correctly attends to three-step directions

Subdomain: Exploration

1. Explores cause and effect
2. Makes educated guesses (hypotheses) to solve a problem or task 
3. Tests educated guesses (hypotheses) to find the result

Subdomain: Flexible Thinking

1. Makes plans for an imaginative play routine
2. Changes plans for an imaginative play routine when new ideas are proposed
3. Integrates new plans for an imaginative play routine unprompted

Subdomain: Persistence

1. Demonstrates persistence
2. Attends to a task without displays of frustration
3. Works on a task until it is complete

Subdomain: Recalls Information

1. Recalls one or more items removed from view
2. Recalls two or more items removed from view
3. Recalls three or more items removed from view

Subdomain: Understands Routines

1. Remembers the sequence of a routine
2. Identifies the missing part of a routine
3. Completes/plans a routine

Domain: Unstructured Play

Subdomain: Collaborative Building

1. Uses digital materials (e.g., shapes) and imagination to build collaboratively
2. Uses digital materials (e.g., magnets) and imagination to build collaboratively
3. Uses digital materials (e.g., blocks) and imagination to build collaboratively

Subdomain: Collaborative Art (coming soon)

1. Uses digital materials (e.g., paint) and imagination to create a piece of art together
2. Uses digital materials (e.g., mosaics) and imagination to create a piece of art together
3. Uses digital materials (e.g., stamps) and imagination to create a piece of art together