Competency 1: what it looks like

This site provides a series of videos that illustrate Competency 1  of the Quebec Preschool Education Program: “ Performs Sensorimotor Movement Effectively in Different Contexts” ( View the competency as a PDF document ) 

All the clips were taken in the natural situations in which the competency is expressed and they illustrate types of  learning situations that support the development of the competency.

You will find illustrations for each of the four evaluation criteria of the competency as well asd for the outcomes at the end of Preschool education.

They illustrate SOME of the exemplary behaviours, strategies, etc.  that can be found in the Kindergarten Development Profile (KDP): Competency 1

Video illustrations for each of the four criteria of Competency 1

• Executes Gross Motor Movements

• Executes Fine Motor Movements

• Adapts his/her Actions to the Environment

• Recognizes Factors that Favour Well-Being

Videos illustrations for a range of actions based on each of the outcomes for Competency 1.

"The children, having been placed in a variety of classroom situations that hold real challenges , have broadened their repertoire of actions. They adjust their actions to their physical and human environment and follow safety rules, performing in accordance with the task and their level of development. The ease of movement they have acquired prepares them for learning requiring greater coordination and dexterity ." 

• A variety of classroom situations

• Real challenges

• Adjust their actions to the environment

• Coordination

• Dexterity

Acknowledgments

The teachers whose children participated in this project:

• Mrs Joëlle Beauchamps, Eardley School, Western Quebec School Board,
• Mrs Anne-Marie St-Jacques, école Saint-Paul, Commission Scolaire de l’Outaouais,
• Mrs Sylvie-Luce Gauthier, école de l’Envolée, Commission Scolaire des Draveurs.

Mrs Sandra Samaha (Editing) and Université du Québec en Outaouais information services’ audio-visual department  technicians.

Mrs Christine Pérusset, educational consultant at the MELS, for her help selecting the video clips and making the connection with the evaluation criteria and the end of preschool education outcomes. Thank you also to Mrs Christiane Bourdages-Simpson, head of the Preschool Education Program at the MELS, for her support which allowed the completion of this project.

Mrs Lynda O’Connell and Pascale-D. Chaillez, educational consultants at the RÉCIT national du préscolaire, for their technical support throughout the process.

The project was initiated, coordinated and developped by Mrs Johanne April, professor in the department des Sciences de l’éducation at the Université du Québec en Outaouais.