child development and its stages

1. DAY 1O
PREPARED BY: ANEELA KATBAR

2.  Understand child development and its stages
 Explan its importance in teaching and learning
 Discuss student learning disabilities.

3. ACTIVITIES DURATION
Recitation of Holy Quran
Share reflections on professional learning of the previous
day
Share day objectives
Brainstorm notion of child development followed by
MT’s Input
09:00am to
11:00am
BREAK
11:00am to
11:30am
Discuss the stages of child development
Discuss student learning disabilities 11:30am to
1:30pm
Recap of the Day 1:30pm to
2.00pm

4.  Physical – measured by height/weight
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 Cognitive – thinking/intellectual growth
 Psychosocial – relationships/relations/communication

5.  Brain and Nervous System:
 The infant's experiences help to "fine-tune" the brain's
responses to stimulation.
 Motor Abilities Brain maturation allows the
development of motor skills from reflexes to
coordinated motor abilities, including grasping and
walking.

6.  Cognitive Skills: The infant progresses from knowing
his or her world only through immediate experiences
that helps her to "experiment"
 Language :Babies’ cry is his or her first language

7. 1.Personality Development :
 The infant's transition from total dependence to
increasing INDEPENDENCE.
2.Understanding Self and Others:
 Much more attentive to the reactions of others.
Parent- Parent-Infant
3. Interaction :
 Infant Interaction Parents and infants respond to each
other first by synchronizing their behavior.

9.  Most rapid year period of growth throughout the life
span.
 Rolling over,sitting up, crawling, and walking are
specific physical milestone
 Social milestone usually occurs during the period
include development of sense of self awareness to the
age of 12 months

10.  1. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
 Brain and Nervous System The brain develops faster
than any other part of the body, attaining 90 percent of
its adult weight
 2. Motor Abilities and Perception
 Large body movements, such as running and jumping,
improve dramatically. Fine motor skills, such as
writing and drawing, develop more slowly.

11.  3. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
 Cognitive Skills : The child becomes increasingly able
To use mental representation and SYMBOLS.
 Language: Language abilities develop rapidly; By age
of 6, the average child knows 14,000 words and
demonstrates extensive grammatical knowledge.

12.  4. PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
 Personality Development The child to boldly and
exuberantly initiates new activities.
 Understanding Self and Others Parent They engage in
increasingly complex and imaginative types of play,
sometimes by them selves and, increasingly, with
others.
 Child Interaction As children become more
independent and try to exercise more control over
their environment, the parents' role in supervising the
child's activities becomes more difficult.

13.  PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
 Growth : Increased strength and heart and lung
capacity give children the endurance to improve their
performance in skills such as swimming and running.
 Motor Skills :Slower growth might contribute to
children's increasing control over their bodies.