Stage 3 - Dynamic Learning Circle
Transcript

Patty Obrzut: So, after a child has been in Stage 2, for quite a while, obviously they're going to move on to Stage 3. And Stage 3 is that a child finally completes learning with that activity. So, this child has been given this whisk, and has been pushing it for, let's say, three months.

During that time, they've been experimenting. They've been exploring and understanding, maybe, that this is metal. Maybe, that it's a little cool to the touch. All those kind of things. Not necessarily with anyone having to tell them that it's a whisk, or that it's metal. But just in their own actions, they're understanding what metal is, and how a whisk responds.

So, now they move on to Stage 3, which is that they've completed their learning. How do you know that they've completed their learning? Well, the first sign is that that child has repeated their actions to a point, that it becomes part of their every day patterns. So, every day you give them this whisk, it takes them about one second before they go, "Oh, yeah. I know what to do with that.' And they just start hitting the whisk. Okay? And then you're going to notice that their activity comes to such a level, that it's so familiar to them that there's no challenges to it. They're not doing anything different with the whisk. It's the same activity every day. They're just banging on the whisk, because there's nothing else that they can do with the whisk. 

So, in Stage 3 the actions are so familiar that there's no more challenges to the child. And those are the two most important characteristics of Stage 3, that the activity is repeated, to such a point, that there's-- it's part of the child's everyday actions, and that it presents no more challenges to the child.