WiseTip: AL-PER-M0818-E01A

Approaches to Learning

Promoting Persistence

Ensure that the environment your baby is exploring is safe to move around in. Ensure the place is quiet and free of distractions.

WHY IT MATTERS

Social and environmental facilitation can improve young children’s level of persistence. Home environments that provide choice, time to play, independence, and appropriate levels of challenge can enhance children's motivation, and in turn, improve their persistence.

Hyson, M. (2008). Enthusiastic and engaged learners: Approaches to learning in the early childhood classroom. New York: Teachers College Press and Washington, DC: NAEYC.

Allowing children to freely explore and not be distracted or be hurt when they try to persist on a task will help them persist and solve learning problems.