Ch' 6 Psychosocial Development in Middle Childhood

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Ch. 6 Psychosocial Development in Middle
Childhood

• Dr. Marian C. Fritzemeier, Ed.D.

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• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.
  You have no security unless you can live bravely,
  excitingly, imaginatively unless you can choose
  a challenge instead of a competence.- Eleanor
  Roosevelt

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Implications for Caregivers

• Adults are active participants in helping
  children resolve conflicts inherent in each stage
  of development
• Include families in decisions concerning
  children's problem behaviors

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• Support childrens need for competence by
  providing opportunities to acquire new skills
  practice already acquired skills
• Support children's need to be independent by
  allowing them to make choices do things without
  adult intervention
• Let children know their competence
  responsibility are valued

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Moral Dilemmas

• Text, p. 96. Write a moral dilemma scenario that
  a school-age children faces in his/her everyday
  life. There are two examples listed for you.

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Moral Development Small Group Graphic
Organizers

• Jean Piaget
• Group 1 Moral realism Changes ideas about
  authority Moral relativism

• Lawrence Kohlberg
• Group 2 Preconventional
• Group 3 Conventional
• Group 4 Postconventional

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Evaluation of Kohlberg

• Coral Gilligan argues that since Kohlberg's
  study was done on males
• Females are socialized differently than males
• Therefore, cannot be judged in same way

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• Elliot Turiel
• Kohlberg used hypothetical situations
• Not daily circumstances children typically
  confront
• Reflects Western values cannot be applied to
  other cultures, i.e. independence vs.
  inter-dependence

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Implications for Staff

• Involve children in solving moral dilemmas that
  occur in their daily experiences
• Provide children with opportunities to interact
  with children adults of different age groups,
  exposing them to higher levels of moral
  functioning

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• Create an environment in which individual
  family value systems are accepted
• Model the kind of behavior expected for children

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Start Something

• Tiger Woods program through Target
• Scholarships of up to 5,000
• Kits for
• Elementary (show sample)
• Middle School
• High School
• http//startsomething.target.com

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School-Age Notes Daily Email

• Quote of the Day
• Resource idea
• Sent Monday Friday
• Email info_at_schoolagenotes.com
• Show example

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Character Counts!

• Six Pillars of Character
• Trustworthiness
• Respect
• Responsibility
• Fairness
• Caring
• Citizenship
• http//www.charactercounts.com/

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Literature Based Character Education
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Pursuing Victory with Honor

• Sportsmanship Campaign
• http//www.chractercounts.org/sports/
• JHS Example