Community Connections for Families

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Community Connections for Families

• Principles of Development
• September 3, 2003

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Theories of Development

• Behaviorist
• Maturationist
• Constructivist

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Theories of Development

• Have you ever said good job when a child
  completed a task accurately?
• Have you ever said, If you eat all your peas,
  you can have a cookie.
• Have you ever made yourself study for a test
  because you didnt want to earn a bad grade?

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Theories of Development

• Behaviorist
• BF Skinner
• Learning controlled by system of rewards and
  punishments
• Operant conditioning
• Behavior precedes reward

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Behaviorist Theory

• Positive reinforcement
• Negative reinforcement
• Punishment

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Maturationist

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Gesell Institute
• Children unfold
• Developmental level determines learning

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Constructivist

• Piaget
• Vygotsky
• Bruner
• Forman

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Constructivist

• Children create knowledge through interactions
  with the environment
• Physical knowledge
• Logical-mathematical knowledge
• Social knowledge

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Piagets Stages of Development

• Sensorimotor-Birth to two years
• Preoperational_Two to seven years
• Concrete Operational-Seven to eleven years
• Formal Operational-Eleven years plus

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Theories of Development

• Howard Gardner
• Multiple intelligences
• 1.Linguistic 7.Intrapersonal
• 2.Logical-mathematical 8.Naturalist
• 3.Spatial 9.Existentialist
• 4.Bodily-kinesthetic
• 5.Musical
• 6.Interpersonal

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Theories of Development

• Everything we do in Early Childhood Education is
  built on these theories of child development.
• We will take these theories of development and
  relate them to children, families and society.

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Physical Development

• Orderly
• Changes from undifferentiated mass activity to
  controlled activity
• Variable rate
• Nutrition
• Freedom to move and explore
• Physical activity is a requirement for young
  children!!

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Social Development

• Development of personality (Erikson)
• Self-esteem
• Play
• Social skills and social development
• Aggression
• Sex role identification

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Emotional Development

• Predictable stages of growth
• How can we as teachers encourage and foster
  appropriate emotional growth?

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Intellectual Development

• Cognitive development thinking and reasoning
  abilities

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Activity

• Work with your partner to come up with an
  activity that is developmentally appropriate for
  the area of development and age you draw.
• How long will the activity take?
• Why did you select it?
• What materials would you need?