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Intended Students should be able to meet the following intended learning outcomes:
Learning • define preschooler and explain the concepts of biological changes that they
Outcomes undergo,
• illustrate the physical, cognitive and socio-emotional development among
preschoolers,
• analyze the different gross and fine motors skills exhibited by preschoolers
through observation, and
• design simple activities that will help a preschooler develop his/her skills
• State the different cognitive milestones in primary-school
• Describe the different physical characteristics of early school-aged children
Targets/ At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
Objectives • describe pre-school children’s physical growth,
• identify the different gross and fine motor skills,
• describe the cognitive development that takes place among preschoolers,
• explain Erikson’s “crisis” of early childhood, initiative versus guilt,
• explain the development of the preschoolers’ sense of self and self-esteem,
• discuss how children develop gender identity,
• describe the stages of play and how it impacts socio-emotional development
• describe how significant relationships with parents, siblings and peers affect
the preschooler, and
• make observations among preschoolers
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Lecture Guide
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B. Visual Pathways
Children’s drawings are representative of the development of visual pathways;
as children’s brains mature the images in their drawings change. Early scribbles
and dots illustrate the use of simple motor skills. No real connection is made
between an image being visualized and what is created on paper. At age 3, the
child begins to draw wispy creatures with heads and not much other detail.
Gradually pictures begin to have more detail and incorporate more parts of the
body. Arm buds become arms and faces take on noses, lips and eventually
eyelashes.
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F. Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills are also being refined as they continue to develop more
dexterity, strength, and endurance. Fine motor skills are very important as they
are foundational to self-help skills and later academic abilities (such as writing).
As children grow, they are more likely to show their genitals to siblings or peers,
and to take off their clothes and touch each other (Okami et al., 1997).
Masturbation is common for both boys and girls. Boys are often shown by other
boys how to masturbate. But girls tend to find out accidentally. And boys
masturbate more often and touch themselves more openly than do girls
(Schwartz, 1999).
Caregivers should respond to this without undue alarm and without making the
child feel guilty about their bodies. Instead, messages about what is going on and
the appropriate time and place for such activities help the child learn what is
appropriate.
A child might protest if told that something will happen “tomorrow” but be
willing to accept an explanation that an event will occur “today after we sleep.”
Or the young child may ask, “How long are we staying? From here to here?” while
pointing to two points on a table. Concepts such as tomorrow, time, size and
distance are not easy to grasp at this young age. Understanding size, time,
distance, fact and fiction are all tasks that are part of cognitive development in
the preschool years.
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a. Milestones of Cognitive Development
The many theories of cognitive development and the different research that has
been done about how children understand the world, has allowed researchers
to study the milestones that children who are typically developing experience in
early childhood. Here is a table that summarizes those.
Table 1. Cognitive Milestones
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a. Self-Esteem
Early childhood is a time of forming an initial sense of self. Self-concept is our
self-description according to various categories, such as our external and
internal qualities. In contrast, self-esteem is an evaluative judgment about who
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we are. The emergence of cognitive skills in this age group results in improved
perceptions of the self, but they tend to focus on external qualities, which are
referred to as the categorical self. When researchers ask young children to
describe themselves, their descriptions tend to include physical descriptors,
preferred activities, and favorite possessions. Thus, the self-description of a 3-
year-old might be a 3-year-old girl with red hair, who likes to play with blocks.
However, even children as young as three know there is more to themselves than
these external characteristics.
b. Self-Control
Self-control is not a single phenomenon, but is multi-facetted. It includes
response initiation, the ability to not initiate a behavior before you have
evaluated all of the information, response inhibition, the ability to stop a
behavior that has already begun, and delayed gratification, the ability to hold out
for a larger reward by forgoing a smaller immediate reward (Dougherty, Marsh,
Mathias, & Swann, 2005). It is in early childhood that we see the start of self-
control, a process that takes many years to fully develop. In the now classic
“Marshmallow Test” (Mischel, Ebbesen, & Zeiss, 1972) children are confronted
with the choice of a small immediate reward (a marshmallow) and a larger
delayed reward (more marshmallows). Walter Mischel and his colleagues over
the years have found that the ability to delay gratification at the age of four
predicted better academic performance and health later in life (Mischel, et al.,
2011).
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differences between boys and girls both physically and in terms of what
activities are acceptable for each. While 2 year olds can identify some differences
and learn whether they are boys or girls, preschoolers become more interested
in what it means to be male or female. This self-identification or gender identity
is followed sometime later with gender constancy or the knowledge that gender
does not change. Gender roles or the rights and expectations that are associated
with being male or female are learned throughout childhood and into adulthood.
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friendships that provide additional sources of security and support to those
provided by their parents.
f. Play
Freud saw play as a means for children to release pent-up emotions and to deal
with emotionally distressing situations in a more secure environment. Vygotsky
and Piaget saw play as a way of children developing their intellectual abilities
(Dyer & Moneta, 2006). Piaget created stages of play that correspond with his
stages of cognitive development. The stages are:
While Freud, Piaget, and Vygostsky looked at play slightly differently, all three
theorists saw play as providing positive outcomes for children.
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MIDDLE CHILDHOOD (THE PRIMARY SCHOOLER)
I. Physical Development
Physical growth during the primary school years is slow but steady. During
this stage, physical development involves:
1. having good muscle control and coordination,
2. developing eye-hand coordination,
3. having good personal hygiene and
4. being aware of good safety habits.
This period of gradual and steady growth will give children time to get used
to the changes in their bodies. An average increase in height of a little over two
inches a year in height of a little over two inches a year in both boys and girls
will introduce them to many different activities that they can now do with
greater accuracy.
Weight gain averages about 6.5 pounds a year. Most children will have
slimmer appearance compared to their preschool years because of the shifts in
accumulation and location of their body fats. A child’s legs are longer and more
proportioned to the body than they were before.
A number of factors could indicate how much a child grows, or how much
changes in the body will take place:
• genes
• food
• climate
• exercise
• medical conditions
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• diseases/illnesses
Motor Development
Young school-aged children are gaining control over the major muscles of
their bodies. Most children have a good sense of balance. They like testing their
muscle strength and skills. They enjoy doing real-life tasks and activities. They
pretend and fantasize less often because they are more attuned with everything
that is happening around them.
Children in this stage love to move a lot – they run, skip, hop, jump, tumble,
roll and dance. Because their gross motor skills are already developed, they can
now perform activities like catching a ball with one hand, trying their shoelaces,
they can manage zippers and buttons.
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Speed is the ability to cover a great distance in the shortest possible time
while agility is one’s ability to quickly change or shift the direction of the body.
These skills are extremely important in most sports.
Power is the ability to perform a maximum effort in the shortest possible
period.
All these motor skills are vital in performing different activities, games and
sports. Development of these skills may spell the difference between success and
failure in future endeavors of the child.
Logic
Concrete operational thinkers, according to Piaget, can already make use of
inductive logic. Inductive logic involves thinking from a specific experience to a
general principle. But at this stage, children have great difficulty in using
deductive logic or using a general principle to determine the outcome of a
specific event.
Reversibility
One of the most important developments in this stage is an understanding of
reversibility, or awareness that actions can be reversed. An example of this is
being able to reverse the order of relationships between mental categories. (For
example in arithmetic, 3 + 4 = 7 and 7 – 4 = 3).
Cognitive Milestones
Elementary-aged children encounter developmental milestones. They
develop certain skills within a particular time frame. The skills they learn are in
aa sequential manner, meaning they need to understand numbers before they
can perform a mathematical equation. Each milestone that develops is
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dependent upon the previous milestone they achieved. Up until age 8, a child
learns new skills at a rapid pace. Once they reach the age of 8, the skills they learn
start to level off and it usually is a steady increase of new skills.
Specifically, young primary school-aged children can tell left from right. They
are able to speak, express themselves and develops rapidly. In school, they share
about themselves and their families. During play, they practice using the words
and language they learn in school. They start to understand time and days of the
week. They enjoy rhymes, riddles and jokes. Their attention span is longer. They
can follow more involved stories. They are learning letters and words. By six,
most can read words or combinations of words.
Information-Processing Skills
Several theorists argue that like the computer, the human mind is a system
that can process information through the application of logical rules and
strategies. They also believe that the mind receives information, performs
operations to change its form and content, stores and locates it and generates
responses from it.
In this stage, children, will most likely, have begun going to school. School
experiences become the priority, with children so busy doing school work. The
encouragement of parents and caring educators helps to build a child’s sense of
self-esteem, strengthening their confidence and ability to interact positively in
the world.
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Understanding the Self
One’s self-concept is the knowledge about the self, such as beliefs regarding
personality traits, physical characteristics, abilities, values, goals and roles. What
does the comic strip depict?
Having a healthy self-concept does not mean that a child thinks he is better
than others. It means that he likes himself, feels accepted by his family and
friends and believes that he can do well.
School Years
In the transition from pre-elementary to primary school, children tend to
become increasingly self-confident and able to cope well with social interactions.
They are not focused on themselves anymore but are also aware of the needs
and desires of others. The issues of fairness and equality become important to
them as they learn to care for people who are not part of their families.
Characteristics like loyalty and dependability are being considered as well as
responsibility and kindness.
Building Friendships
Making friends is a crucial but very important part of children’s social and
emotional growth. As soon as they are able to walk and talk, they will tend to
show natural inclination to be around other children.
Children, during this stage, most likely belong to a peer group. Peer groups
are characterized by children who belong approximately to the same age group
and same social economic status. It is found along the stages of childhood
through adolescence. But for children, until the age of seven or eight, they think
of themselves more than that others. They may play well with groups but may
need some time to play alone.
Primary school children prefer to belong to peer groups of the same gender.
Many children will use their surroundings to observe and mingle with other
children. Some will see this as an opportunity to make friends while others
remain a bit of a loner.
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Antisocial Behavior
Some adult may perceive that some children’s behavior towards other
children as antisocial. When children poke, pull, hit or kick other children when
they are first introduced, it is fairly normal. Remember that children at this stage
are still forming their own world views and other children may seem like a
curiosity that they need to explore. Parents and teachers can help children make
friends. You can consider the following:
• Expose the children to kid-rich environments (e.g. playgrounds, park)
• Create a play group in your class and let the children mingle with their
classmates.
• When your children hit other children, remind them that their behavior
hurts others.
• Coordinate with the parents and other teachers so that the children will
have greater opportunity to interact with other children.
Self-control
Once children reach school age, they begin to take pride in their ability to do
things and their capacity to exert effort. They like receiving positive feedback
from their parents and teachers. This becomes a great opportunity for parents
and teachers to encourage positive emotional responses from children by
acknowledging their mature, compassionate behaviors.
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Engaging Activities
Answer the following questions:
1. Given the current situation we are in, parents tend to become busy with
their work and other activities, hence uses gadgets such as mobile phone,
tablet or laptop for their children to use as a source of
leisure/entertainment. Are you in favor of this, yes or no? Why?
(Strengthen your argument with supporting literatures)
Performance Tasks
PT
Poster
As a future teacher, how do you imagine early childhood education?
Instructions:
1. Create a poster which represents your idea about early childhood education
Guide questions:
1. How can you help young learners develop their physical, cognitive and socio-emotional skills as
early as preschoolers?
2. What teaching strategy should early childhood teachers focus on when education preschoolers
to middle-schoolers?
3. Support your answers with related studies and literature
4. Cite your references
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Level of Performance
1 2 3 4 SCORE
Criteria
Needs Satisfactory Very Outstanding
Improvement Satisfactory
Effective Communication
It conveys the message quickly and clearly
Attractiveness
Colors and arrangement catch and hold interest
Balance
Objects are arranged, so stability is perceived
Unity
Repeated shapes or colors or use of borders
hold display together
Legibility
Letters and illustration are visible and easy to
read and recognized
Correctness
It is free from grammar errors, misspelled
words, and ambiguity
TOTAL SCORE
Level of Performance
Criteria 5 4 3 2 Score
Advanced Proficient Developing Emerging
CONTENT Substantial, specific, Adequately Limited content with Superficial with weak
and sophisticated presented and explanation to minimal content
ideas were elaborated sufficient were used
presented ideas
ORGANIZATION Presented content Presented content Presented content Presented content
were arranged were arranged were basically were arranged in
thoroughly thoroughly on arranged, enough for minimal pattern
throughout the certain parts of the the readers to
paper paper understand
STYLE Uses variety of words Uses generic words Uses limited words Uses minimal
and sentence and sentence and sentence appropriate words and
structures anchored structures structures sentence structures
with evidences
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GRAMMAR, No spelling, Few spelling and numerous spelling So many spelling and
USAGE AND punctuation or punctuation errors and punctuation punctuation errors
MECHANICS grammatical errors with minimal errors with minimal which hinder the
grammatical error grammatical error readers to understand
the statement
REFERENCES All references were All references were All references were Not all references were
cited properly using cited properly using cited but was not cited
APA 7th edition APA format but presented properly
format older edition
Total
Learning Resources
References
Corpuz, B. & Salandanan, G. (2007). Principles of Teaching 1. Quezon City: LORIMAR Publishing
Incorporated
Corpuz, B., Lucas, M., Borabo, H. & Lucido, P. (2010). Child and Adolescent Development: LORIMAR
Publishing Incorporated
Paris, J., Ricardo, A., & Rymond, D. (2019). Child Growth and Development Version 1.2. Retrieved
from https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/750?locale=es Creative Commons
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