ED 101 The Child and Adolescent Learners

and Learning Principles.

Mojica, Adrienne Dave B.
BSE-ENG A2020
Ms. Criscar Villanueva
Experience
1. How many developmental stages were described?
How do these stages compare to Havighurst’s
developmental stages given below? Havighurst has
identified six major age periods:
• Infancy and early childhood (0-5 years),
• Middle childhood (6-12 years),
• Adolescence (13-18 years),
• Early adulthood (19-29 years),
• Middle adulthood (30-60 years),
• Later maturity (61+).
Answer:
The Developmental stages that were describe are
6, which is Infancy and Early Childhood (0-5),
Middle Childhood (6-12), Adolescence (13-18), Early
Adulthood (19-29), Middle Adulthood (30-60),
Later Maturity (61 and over).
(1) Infancy and early childhood, which lasts from birth
to age 5. These are babies who are just learning to walk
and talk and figuring out the world around them.
Havighurst's six (6) developmental stages only that
Havighurst did not include prenatal period. Havighurst
combined infancy and early childhood.
(2) Middle childhood lasts from age 6 to age 12. During
this time, children become more self-sufficient as they
go to school and make friends.
(3) Adolescence, which lasts from age 13 to age 18,
comes with hormonal changes and learning about who
you are as an individual.
(4) Early adulthood lasts from age 19 to age 30 and
involves finding an occupation and often finding a life
partner as well.
(5) Middle Age lasts from age 30 to age 60 and is the
time when most people start a family and settle into
their adult lives.
(6) Later Maturity is the time of life after age 60. During
this time, people adjust to life after work and begin to
prepare themselves for death.
2. What is an outstanding trait or behavior of each
stage?
Answer:
Based on my research the outstanding trait or behavior
of each stage is adolescence (puberty occurs,
establishes a sense of self, confrontations with
authority). Because on this stage we face the most
crucial stage of the human development, we face some
changes in our body and also in our environment, and
try to establish our self-identity.

3. What task/s is/are expected of each developmental

stage?
Answer:
For every developmental stage, there is an expected
developmental task. Learning to get along with friends
of both sexes, accepting one's physical body and
keeping it healthy, becoming more self-sufficient,
making decisions about marriage and family life,
preparing for a job or career, acquiring a set of values
to guide behavior, becoming socially responsible. In
Early Adulthood (19-29), they selecting a mate, learning
to live with a partner, getting a stable job, starting a
family, rearing children, managing a home. They will
have a responsibility in Life.

4. Does a developmental task in a higher level require

accomplishment of the lower level developmental
tasks?
Answer:
Yes, development is sequential, with later skills building
upon earlier skills. For example, fine motor
development that is appropriate for young children
leads to later skills, it is because its accomplish the
lower development task and even if you complete all
the tasks. stringing beads, using tweezers, all those
games using the fingers improving their strength and
dexterity, eventually make handwriting much simpler -
more controlled and less tiring.
Examine
1. Answer this question with a learning partner. What
are the implications of these developmental tasks to
your role as a facilitator of learning? Let us pay
particular attention to the stages that correspond to
schooling-early childhood, middle, middle and late
childhood and adolescence.
Let’s do # 1. Early Childhood- What are preschool
teachers supposed to do with preschoolers? Help them
develop readiness for school and not to be too
academic in teaching approach. They ought to give
much time for preschoolers to play. Or perhaps help
preschoolers develop school readiness by integrating
children’s games in school activities.
Answer: Preschool teachers play a vital role in the
development of children. They introduce children to
reading and writing, expanded vocabulary, creative
arts, science, and social studies. They use games,
music, artwork, films, books, computers, and other
tools to teach concepts and skills. Develop a program
for young children within the preschool, provide
nutritious snacks and lunches, talk with parents about
behavioral ups and downs, develop activities to
stimulate the children, and establish policies and
procedures for inside and outside the classroom.

#2-Middle and Late childhood Elementary school

teachers ought to help their pupils by preparing
younger students for future education by teaching
them vital subjects, such as reading, science and
mathematics. They also help students develop critical
thinking skills, learn to solve problems and understand
abstract ideas.

#3- Adolescence
High school teachers ought to help their student by
explaining several topics with the aid of support
materials and different teaching methods, in different
academic fields and specializations. To evaluate
students’ learning progress, Teachers also prepare
tests and examinations and grade students based on
their performance. All High School Teachers are hired
by public and private secondary schools.
2. Discuss the meaning of the quotation beneath the
title of the lesson. Relate it to the stage of
development.
Answer:
When the Caterpillar asks Alice “Who are you,” she
finds that she doesn't know who she is anymore. The
Caterpillar aggravates Alice's uncertainty about her
constantly changing size. The Caterpillar also may
represent the threat of sexuality, as suggested by its
phallic shape. However, the reader can perceive her as
older than that and get the impression that she has
entered adolescence. Alice vacillates between being a
child and striving to act like an adult in her various
encounters in Wonderland. It nevertheless highlights a
child’s development by juxtaposing different
developmental stages. The scientific and realistic
functions of developmental theory may at first seem
haphazard in the analysis of a literary character in a
fantasy world. But this essay illustrates Carroll’s
professional familiarity with his child protagonist
through the logic and consistency of his depiction of
Alice.
Exchange

1. Complete this unfinished sentence.

Developmental tasks are
___________________________.
Answer: One that “arises at a certain period in our life,
the successful achievement of which leads to
happiness and success with later tasks while failure
leads to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty
with later tasks.”
 2. Show the developmental stages by means of a
diagram inclusive of the ages. Write also the
outstanding characteristic trait and developmental task
of each developmental stage.
Answer: Adolescence Middle
Middle Childhood Later Maturity
• Achieving mature Adulthood
Infancy and • Learning physical relations with both Early • Adjusting to
• Helping
Early Childhood skills necessary for sexes Adulthood decreasing
teenage children
ordinary games strength and
• Learning to • Achieving a • Selecting a to become happy
health
take food • Building a masculine or mate and responsible
wholesome attitude feminine social role adults • Adjusting to
• Learning to • Learning to
toward oneself as a retirement and
walk • Accepting one’s live with a • Achieving adult
growing organism reduced
physique partner social and civic
• Learning to income
• Learning to get responsibility
talk • Achieving • Starting a
along with agemates • Adjusting to
emotional family • Satisfactory
• Learning to death of
• Beginning to independence of career
control the • Rearing spouse
develop appropriate adults achievement
elimination of children
masculine or • Establishing
body wastes • Preparing for • Developing
feminine social roles • Managing a relations with
marriage and adult leisure time
• Learning sex • Developing home one’s own age
family life activities
differences and fundamental skills in group
• Starting an
sexual modesty reading, writing, and • Preparing for an • Relating to
occupation • Meeting
calculating economic career one’s spouse as a
• Getting social and civic
• Assuming person
ready to read • Developing • Acquiring values obligation
civic
concepts necessary and an ethical • Accepting the
• Learning to responsibility • Establishing
for everyday living system to guide physiological
distinguish satisfactory
behavior changes of
right and • Developing living quarters
middle age
wrong and conscience, a sense • Desiring and
learning to of morality, and a achieving socially • Adjusting to
develop a scale of values responsible aging parent
conscience behavior
• Developing
attitudes toward
social groups and
institutions

• Achieving personal
independence