Child Development Theories
This approach to teaching is grounded in the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about effective early education.
What is Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP)?
This age group likes to accomplish goals themselves and want to help with adult tasks but they need to be supported in independent activities.
What is the toddler?
This system pertains to the mind and how it works.
What is cognitive?
This area centers on the development of social, emotional, and personality characteristics and self concept.
What is Affective Development?
This is tied to a child's other develop areas.
What is physical development?
These are ideas or set of rules that explain, describe, or predict what does or will happen as children grow and learn.
What are child development theories?
This theorist believed that toddler's experience autonomy vs. shame and doubt.
Who is Erik Erikson?
In this age group, as children observe things, they begin to sort and categorize them into different categories, or schemas.
What are the ages 3-4?
This theorist believed that each stage of development is marked by conflicts that can help build growth or stifle development, depending upon how they are resolved. If these psychosexual stages are completed successfully, a healthy personality is the result.
Who is Sigmond Freud?
This takes the brain and the body’s muscles to allow these skills to develop, connect and build with all other parts of a child’s development – language, social-emotional, and behavioral.
What is motor development?
These theories attribute development changes to interaction between growth and learning.
What are developmental theories?
What is autonomy?
By doing this, teachers are promoting children's visual perceptual skills.
What is attempting to read?
This development includes the ability to: form and sustain positive relationships and to experience, manage, and express emotions.
What is healthy social-emotional development?
These factors affect physical growth.
What are heredity, nutrition, medical conditions, exercise, sleep, and emotional well being?
These theories attribute changes to the environment and learning.
What are behaviorist theories?
This theorist believed that children must learn to possess a sense of fulfilment and confidence, which is essential to one's autonomy.
Who is Maria Montessori?
This is the act of thinking or thought.
What is metacognition?
This theorist believed that language is a critical tool of behavior regulation.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
At this age, the torso has lengthened and body proportions have become more like those of adults.
What is the age of 6?
This is the belief that children construct their own knowledge through interaction with the environment.
What is constructivism?
Failing to support this, or actively thwarting it by being controlling, has been associated with increased levels of anxiety in children.
What is children's autonomy?
This is linked with lower cognitive maturity.
What is low height and weight for age?
This activates the calmer part of the brain.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
This song promotes fine motor skills.
What is the Itsy Bitsy Spider?