There are hundreds of behavioural expectations. Here are seven of them for you to ponder on.
Be compliant
Follow instructions
Share well with others
Show excellent team working skills
Speak with confidence and clarity
Show maturity
Let’s go through each of these in a little more detail.
Be compliant
To me, being compliant means doing what you are asked to do without complaining about it.
Being compliant in a 4+ Assessment looks like this.
Your child is asked to do something.
They do what they are asked to do.
SIMPLE.
This is what the Assessors do not want to see?
Your child is asked to do something.
They do not do what they are asked to do.
Your child is asked to do something.
They do something else.
Your child is asked to do something.
They tell the Assessor, ‘No!’
If your child does either of these, they will most likely not be successful in their 4+ Assessment/s.
2. Follow instructions
To me following instructions means listening really well to what you are told and doing exactly that. Following instructions in a 4+ Assessment looks like:
Being given an instruction and following it exactly.
For example- ‘I would like you build a tower using 6 blocks and only using green and blue blocks. A child who knows how to follow instructions will do exactly that. A child who ha not been taught how to follow instructions or who is not as good at following instructions might use more/less than 6 blocks and use other colours rather than the ones instructed to use.
A child who cannot follow instructions in a 4+ Assessment will most likely not be successful.
3. Share well with others
In their 4+ Assessments, children will observed sharing well (or not!) with others.
It will be an expectation that your child know how to share with others. They will be observed sharing. Again, I think that this is a skill that needs to be taught and practised. Your child also needs to know that it will be an expectation for them to share with others.
I spoke to a parent who told me that in their 4+ Assessment, their child snatched a piece of lego from another child and told him that is was his.
He was not successful at passing that 4+ Assessment.
4. Show excellent team working skills
In their 4+ Assessment/s your child will be observed in relation to how they work as a team. Good team working skills mean being an excellent leader in a team but also being able to listen to and include others.
I spoke to a parent before who told me that his child took the lead when asked to complete a puzzle with three other children but refused to include others and wouldn’t let the other children have a turn with the puzzle. He was not successful. There needs to be a good balance of both being a leader and being a great listener and including all of the other children within the team,
5. Speak with confidence and clarity
In their 4+ Assessment, it will be an expectation that your child speaks with confidence and clarity. In our 4+ Assessment lessons, we spend a lot of time working on Speaking and Listening. Our students answer lots of questions and different levels of questions. Because of this consistent practise, when they go to their Assessment, they are often excellent at speaking confidently and with clarity.
Some parents confuse speaking with confidence as being loud. I disagree. You can be a very quiet person and still be able to speak with confidence.
Children who are often unsuccessful in Round 1 of the 4+ Assessments are children who are unable to speak with confidence and clarity. Perhaps they do no answer questions or are reluctant to answer them, perhaps they mumble when they speak, perhaps they haven’t yet developed their speech. This all needs to be worked on in the lead up to the 4+ Assessments.
6. Show maturity
You might think, ‘But my child is 3!’
Yes.
I’ve worked with many three year olds who demonstrate traits of maturity. They are polite, they are calm, they give eye contact when they are talking to you and they ask you questions too.
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