Children behave differently at different ages in their lifetime. Their cognitive and emotional development happens with time. This course will help you to understand how this development happens over time and prepare us to respond effectively to different situations based on their level of cognitive and emotional development.
Thank you for embarking on this journey. For an effective learning experience, please switch off any notifications, use a notebook to write down your learning and questions as you take the course. Through this course you will learn about Introduction to child development, which explains basic psychology behind why children behave the way they do and how you can respond to student actions appropriately in class.
It consists of 5 sections.
Section 1- Explore the need to understand how thinking develops in children
Section 2- Explore Piaget’s theory of child development
Section 3- Apply the theory in different scenarios to understand how to respond to these situations
Section 4- Different ways to share learning and best practices
Section 5- Evaluation
TAL standards:
NA
CENTA standards
UC.1.1.a. Understanding of the different theories related to ways in which children learn and how learning connections are made with age.