Child development stages

when children learn the most; by age three a child’s development reaches eighty percent. As James and Nelson express “brain development is a complex set of processes that begin within a few weeks of contraception and continue until adulthood” (as cited in Holden, 2014, p. 189). Without healthy growth, a child can have many learning, behavior problems even mental and health problems. It is consequential, that parents promote healthy development. There are three periods of neurological growth that…

Reflective Practice in Professional Development of Early Childhood Educators Based on my personal own observations, Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers usually go through many professional developmental stages. Accordingly, the level of ECE competency for each of these professional developmental stages depends on mastery of teaching techniques, choice of appropriate learning tools, and implementation of effective educational methods or frameworks. Therefore, ECE teachers can progressively…

When it comes to childhood development, a child 's first years of life are the most important time to have them learn about happiness, love, and responsibility. Dressing a child up and letting them put make-up on is not the greatest way to raise a child. Child beauty pageants are becoming a growing trend in America. These beauty pageants set false rules on beauty, as they make children believe that they have to wear make- up, fake eyelashes, jewelry, hair extensions, fake nails, and other…

Skinner’s concept of radical behaviorism is his thinking that internal mental processes are irrelevant to behavioral outcomes. Skinner’s concept of behaviorism has the concept of tabula rasa, that a newborn baby’s brain is a blank slate, that the child has no organized behavior. He believed that all brains worked in the same way, that performing psychological experiments on a mouse’s brain would have the same effects as a human brain would. There are huge differences between the environments…

just a means of communication. Language is a reflection of community and culture; it is an implement of power with the potential to include or exclude; it is empowering and a tool for self-expression; and it is a tool for thinking, learning and development. Language takes many different forms in written, spoken and visual capacities. Language can be heard through speech and song; it can be observed in body language, gesture, writing, Auslan, symbols and pictures; language can even be felt with…

through patterns of growth. Early child development studies the cephalocaudal and Proximodistal patterns during the first two years of life. The ability to control their torso and use of hands becomes obvious in infants according to the Galloway & Thelen study of 2004. The rate of growth decreases in the second year of life according to the study of Marcdante & Kliegman of 2015 with an increase in weight and height. Brain growth is relative to child development considering that the child’s…

theoretical perspectives that have influenced lifespan development. Distinct theories and the developmental stages will be discussed throughout this paper from a personal point of view and provide insight on how various factors have contributed to the development process thus far in life. Spiritual development will be discussed from the earliest memory and will expand into early adulthood, which is the current state of development. Human growth and development varies from person to person and…

The sequence of development is the development is the guidelines we follow to monitor children’s overall development. For example the chart above shows expected milestones as such that a child should be achieving at that age and stage. However every child learns and grows differently as they are all individuals and no two children will be exactly the same or learn at the exact same time this is the rate of development. The rate of development is different for every child for example a baby at…

influences that could possibly shape the development of a human. According to psychologynoteshq.com it states, “American psychologist, Urie Bronfenbrenner, formulated the Ecological systems theory to explain how the inherent qualities of a child and his environment interact to influence how he will grow and develop.” Bronfenbrenner’s theory has five different influences. Influences The outside influence is chronosystem, which is the changes in development over time. The books definition of…

childhood to adolescence. There are many stages within each area of development that include social, cognitive, physical and psychological. Social development refers to how people develop social and emotional skills across their lifespan and as we mature, we can have a better understanding about our feeling and the way we choose to deal with certain matters. Cognitive development is our thought processes and how we solve problems in situations. Physical development refers to the person’s growth…