Observation can help you identify a child’s interest, abilities, learning styles, etc. and to assess the child’s stage of development and
5. Moral development – this is a sub-set of social and emotional development with strong links to cognitive development. The development of morality is about the decisions that children and young people take, the principles that they adopt and their behaviuor towards others. Each child develops at their own rate, there is a
From birth through to adulthood children continually grow, develop, and learn. A child’s development can be measured through social, emotional, intellectual, physical and language developmental milestones. In general, child development progresses from head to toe. Beginning at the top of the body and gradually moving downwards from inner to outer. Firstly gaining control of muscles close to the head and then moving outwards so the large muscles in the shoulders and upper arms/thighs are first and the extremities last from simple to complex; children progress from simple words to complex sentences from general to specific; emotional responses involve the whole body in young babies but may involve only the face in an older child It is important to understand how children develop physically, socially, emotionally and intellectually and to know that all areas of development
Children develop at different rates, but they all follow the same sequance. Development is often referred to on a timeline and is broken down in ages. As development is more rapid in early years the milestones start by being quite close together before becoming further apart as baby becomes a child and then a young adult. The aspects of development that children are measured on are physical, language, social and emotional, and intellect. Physical Development: Within physical development there are lots of different areas: -Gross motor skills - are the large movement of your body ( arms and legs) e.g: walking, running, throwing, punching, hopping.
A girl could like boy toys more, where a boy could like girl toys. This is a never ending cycle but it does raise worry on parents when they see that their child wants to play with something like a toy gun that pops smoke or a tow sword which promotes only aggression and violence. Whereas girl toys in commercials show Ponies, barbies or jewelry making. These show skills on how to share and gain a social behavior skills. But for boys they have commercials of hot rods on a track which crash, or bad guys being tossed into a Lego prison.
|Social and Emotional |1.Looks in mirror at reflection |1.Show independence | | |Strategy: |Strategy: | | |Put items with mirror/reflectors at child’s level |Allow child to do things without assistance | | |2.Has favorite toys |2.Plays make believe | | |Strategy: |Strategy: | | |Buy more than one of toys of interest |Buy children toys that are like household items | | |3.Can sooth himself briefly |3.Indicates nervousness and fear
But, it didn’t go as planned. We all walked in, and I got jerked to the side. Everyone was pulled in different directions. I was all by myself. I kept whispering to myself, “I can get through this.” This one monster, he looked like a cat that had just got ran over by a car, jumped out and hit me.
The child’s physical development is the growth of their movements, both gross and fine motor skills and the development of their hand to eye co-ordination. All of these are connected and can therefore have an impact on each other. Children will be learning how to manage their emotions in a healthy way, caring for others, and their learning of social and cultural skills, independency, making decisions and building their confidence. Their intellectual and cognitive development is the understanding of information, the lengthening of their attention span, the reasoning in daily experiences, developing their memory skills, logical thinking and questioning. Speech and Language development is their understanding and gathering of language, developing their vocabulary and body language (non- verbal communication).
They may still need a dummy, blanket or other comforter when tired or away from home. They can have very stereotyped ideas of what 'boys' and 'girls' are like, girls wear pretty dresses and boys are like Superman. They start taking responsibility for their own toileting. They may show a sense of humor, both in his talk and activities and like to be independent and sometimes with other children. There moods change rapidly.
UNITE 201. CHILD AND YOUNG PERSON DEVELOPMENT Outcome 1. Know the expected pattern of children and young people’s development Q 1.1. Describe the expected pattern of children and young people’s development from birth to 19 years, to include: a. Physical development b. Communication and intellectual development c. Social, emotional and behavioural development.