Attention & Focus
Sustaining, selecting, and shifting attention to support task completion and learning.
Examples & Achievements
- Listens to a story for 10-15 minutes
- Focuses on a self-chosen activity for 15+ minutes
- Ignores distractions to complete a task
- Shifts attention from one activity to another when prompted
- Attends to relevant details in a picture or instruction
How to Measure
- Sustained attention during teacher-led activity (10-15 min observed)
- Sustained attention during self-directed play (15-20 min observed)
- Leiter-3 Attention and Memory battery (if clinical assessment needed)
- Teaching Strategies GOLD Objective 11b (persistence and attentiveness)
Sources (3)
- NAEYC
- Teaching Strategies GOLD
- HighScope