Task 2 - educational psychology

Firs name Marta

Second name Chudzik

Index number 366465

How can teacher support pupils in appropriate development based on selected stages
of Ericson`s theory of psychosocial development.
Description: Using your knowledge of Erikson`s stages of psychosocial development think
and write how can English teacher support pupils in appropriate development. Helping
questions: How do you understand the role of teachers in supporting pupils? Which skills are
the most important in the different stages of Erikson`s stages of psychosocial development?
Level of development

What skills
support?

should

Preschool
Initiative vs. guilty

Interpersonal skills
Social role identification

teacher How could teacher do this

(give minimum 5 examples
for each skill)?
Give children the possibility
to:
- initiate activities
- make up games
- create play situations
- make up stories
- play out roles
- ask a lot of questions
- make decisions
Teacher should also support
childrens effort in making
choices and answer all
childrens question even the
most trivial ones.

Elementary school
Competence
incompetence

Learning and creating skills

vs.

Organize
variety
of
schoolwork, sport and social
activities in which students:
- have possibility to produce
things (art, writing, reading,
solving addition problems)
-discover their special talents
and interest
-understand
relationship
between cause and effect

-will be taught about moral

values and recognize cultural
and individual differences
-learn cooperation
-grasp concept of space and
time
-develop a feeling of
confidence and belief in their
skills
-have a chance to be more
aware of themselves as
individuals
-work on relationship with
the school members

Middle and high school Social relationships- ability to live Give

the
adolescents
Identity vs. role of in a society as an adult
possibility
and
proper
confusion
encouragement to:
-set their own short-term and
long-term goals
-explore different roles
-work on social interactions
-discover and form their
identity
-develop a sense of morality,
what is right or wrong
-try and learn roles they
would occupy as adults
-confront
with
personal
ideologies
-feel independence and
control

Sources which you used (minimum two sources - books (not internet sources)):
1. Stevens, Richard (1983) Erik Erikson: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin's.
2. Erikson, E. (1950). Childhood and society (1st ed.). New York: Norton