GRACE MISSION COLLEGE

Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro

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Module
MODULE 2 12 Subject: The Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles

Physical Development of Infants and Toddlers

At the end of this Module, you should be able to:

 trace the course of the pre-natal development process that you went through,
 explain the most common hazards to pre-natal development and
 become more appreciative of the gift of life manifested in an anti-abortion stand.

INTRODUCTION
We have just traced the developmental process before birth. We shall continue to trace the developmental
process by following the infant or the baby who is just born up to when he reaches age 2. The period that comes after
pre-natal or antenatal stage is infancy which, in turn, is followed by toddlerhood. Infancy and toddlerhood span that
first two years of life.
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com
GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com
 GRACE MISSION COLLEGE
Catiningan, Socorro, Oriental Mindoro
e-Mail: grace.missioncollege@yahoo.com

Activity No. 2
Having learned the physical development of Infants and Toddlers, were you able to imagine or put yourself as infant
and toddler? Had you undergone those activities being cited in this module?
What do you think are the factors that enhance/ impeded the physical development of infants and toddlers?

Activity No. 3
Direction: Read a research on physical development of infants and toddlers. Fill out the matrix below.
Problem: Research Methodology:

Source: (bibliographical/ link entry

Findings: format) Concusions:

How are the findings of this research useful to teachers?

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Activity No. 4
Reflection
Having learned the physical development of infants and toddlers and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, as a future
parent/ teacher/ caregiver of children, reflect on:

 what you should do more often for infants and toddlers and
 what you should refrain from doing to facilitate their growth and development.

Prepared by:

ROSWELL O. TOLENTINO, EdD

Instructor

“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.”

-Carl Sandburg
American Historian, Poet & Novelist