Child Development ETP 420
Subject Outline:
- Building on Teaching and Learning 1, this unit provides foundation knowledge to help students understand and respond to situations in the course of designing, delivering and evaluating learning experiences. The unit focuses on understanding and using child and adolescent development to inform teaching and learning in a variety of school and early childhood contexts.
Week 1 - Introduction to child and adolescent development
Week 2 - Cognitive and moral development
Week 3 - Memory, intelligence and language acquisition
Week 4 - Social and emotional well-being
Week 5 - Development of sex differences and gender roles
Week 6 - Family, peers, media and schooling - Learning Outcomes for this unit are an understanding of the -
- Key theories and principles of child and adolescent development and learning.
- Sequences and processes that underpin child and adolescent development. Interdependence of aspects of development - physical, cognitive, emotional and social.
- Ways in which developmental knowledge and research informs educational policy and teachers’ planning and practice. Child and/or adolescent development knowledge in planning, implementing and evaluating student learning.
- Set Text: Berk, L. (2009) Child Development, 8 th edition. Boston: Pearson.
- Additional texts: Marzano, R.J. & Pickering, D.J. (1997). Dimensions of Learning: Teacher's Manual, 2nd edition. Alexandria, VI: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Cowley, S. (2009). How to survive your first year of teaching (2nd edition) NY: Continuum. ISBN 9781847064714
- Useful web links:
- NT Department of Education and Training
- Australian Human Rights Commission
The National Curriculum Board
NT Curriculum Framework
Northern Terrritory Schools
What I have learnt:
Teaching and Learning and hence lesson planning are dependent upon the development stage of the child/ren
Learning is best achieved in a secure stimulating environment.
Equity is paramount and is achieved through tolerance, knowledge, understanding and use of a variety of teaching strategies that address individuality, different learning styles, children with special needs and recognition of diverse backgrounds.
Teaching and Learning and hence lesson planning are dependent upon the development stage of the child/ren
Learning is best achieved in a secure stimulating environment.
Equity is paramount and is achieved through tolerance, knowledge, understanding and use of a variety of teaching strategies that address individuality, different learning styles, children with special needs and recognition of diverse backgrounds.
