Physical: 9 to 13 years

1. Physical: 9 to 13 years

2. Physical: 9 to 13 years

3. Physical: 9 to 13 years • Later in phase: • Range of individual differences increases • Maturation of central nervous system incomplete until 15-16 years • Children will experience changes at varying ages and at varying rates

4. Growth Spurts Occur 3 to 10 months 2 to 4 years 6 to 8 years 10 to 12 years 14 to 16+ years Consolidation & refinement of teaching Plateau Periods 10 months to 2 years 4 to 6 years 8 to 10 years 12 to 14 years Develop higher level thinking skills Cognitive Development

5. Child Development • Brain growth within 2 year span tends to occur earlier in girls • Girls age 11: growth spurt about twice that of boys at age 11-nearly opposite true at age 15 • Brighter children tend to experience shorter plateaus

6. Piaget • Sensorimotor: child deals with environment at perceptual level • Pre-Operational: Child able to represent objects and relate them to one another through the use of language and other symbols

7. Piaget • Concrete Operational: Child develops logical structures to deal with changing objects in the physical world • Formal Operational: child is capable of hypothetic-deductive reasoning and abstract thought

8. Junior Division Students • Most are at the Concrete Operational stage of development and learn best when presented with learning situations that use concrete materials

9. Styles of learning • Kinesthetic learner may: • stand very close • fidget a lot • seem very active • respond to music by movement • express feelings physically • say “I’ve got it”

10. Learning Styles • Auditory learner may: • like to talk • react verbally when angry • give long, repetitive answers • move lips during silent reading • skip words, lines when reading • say “I hear you”

11. Learning Styles • Visual learner may: • look around a lot • stare when angry, beam when happy • have a vivid imagination • have good handwriting • ignore auditory instructions • say “I see”

12. Social Development • As a general statement, children in the junior grades learn best when provided with-and allowed to shape for themselves-situations based on action and physical movement, opportunities for peer interaction, and relevant and consistent frameworks for learning

13. Media Literacy • Average North American 13 year old will have spent 15,000 hours watching TV and 10,800 hours in the classroom • Students will see 4X as many movies as books read • Information and experience comes from instant insight via TV • Wider knowledge of non-print material

14. Teacher Responsibility • Select educationally sound materials • Be aware of influence of mass media • Use mass media to develop critical viewing skills • Motivate students to use print materials • Teach students to discriminate between social and commercial value messages

15. Long Term planning • Good education requires careful planning • Clear understanding of overall purposes and how activities fulfil these purposes

16. Long Term Planning • Consider student interests and levels of ability • Know core curriculum • Outline core curriculum topics • Outline optional topics • Consult previous teacher to see if topic already taught

17. Long Term Planning • Consult librarian about topics with a time frame • Check to see if any other teachers interested in cooperative planning • Contact consultant if necessary • Plot plans on Long Term Topic Organizer • Decide on approaches for language program

18. Long Term Planning • Meet with principal to discuss plans • Discuss plans with itinerant teachers eg Music • Book films, videos, software, resource people, trips, media equipment • Provides general sense of direction