MODULE 1 APPLICATION.docx
- 1. MODULE 1 APPLICATION 1. State the five characteristics of HUMAN DEVELOPMENT from LIFE-SPAN perspective and their IMPLICATIONS to child care, education and parenting. Characteristics of HUMAN DEVELOPMENT from LIFE-SPAN perspective EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS to child care, education and parenting 1. Development is lifelong 2. “Growth is evidence of life” or “development is evidence of life” . What does this mean? What does this imply to a person’s development ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________
- 2. 3. Find out which one is the re-statement of the principles of human development by stating the characteristics of human development from lifespan perspective in the second column Principles of Human Development (NAEC, 2009) characteristics of human development from lifespan perspective 1. Domains of children’s development-- physical, social, emotional, and cognitive--are closely related e.g. Development is multidimensional 2. Development occurs in a relatively orderly sequence, with later abilities, skills, and knowledge building on those already acquired. 3. Development proceeds at varying rates from child to child as well as unevenly within different areas of each child’s functioning. 4. Early experiences have both cumulative and delayed effects on individual children’s development; optimal periods exist for certain types of development and learning. 5. Development proceeds in predictable directions toward greater complexity, organization, and internalization. 6. Development and learning occur in and are influenced by multiple social and cultural contexts. 7. Children are active learners, drawing on direct physical and social experience as well as culturally transmitted knowledge to construct their own understandings of the world around them.
- 3. 8. Development and learning result from interaction of biological maturation and the environment, which includes both the physical and social worlds that children live in. 9. Play is an important vehicle for children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as a reflection of their development. 10. Development advances when children have opportunities to practice newly acquired skills as well as when they experience a challenge just beyond the level of their present mastery. 11. Children demonstrate different modes of knowing and learning and different ways of representing what they know. 12. Children develop and learn best in the context of a community where they are safe and valued, their physical needs are met, and they feel psychologically secure.