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Parent Café Morning Edition

Parent Café Morning Edition. October 2, 2013 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Welcome. Goals for Today 1.Welcome and Introductions 2. Announcements 3. Ice Breaker 4. Presentation and Discussion. Child Development. Marjola Roshi, MA, CAGS School Psychologist. Agenda. Developmental Tasks

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Parent Café Morning Edition

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  1. Parent Café Morning Edition October 2, 2013 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

  2. Welcome Goals for Today 1.Welcome and Introductions 2. Announcements 3. Ice Breaker 4. Presentation and Discussion

  3. Child Development Marjola Roshi, MA, CAGS School Psychologist

  4. Agenda • Developmental Tasks • Developmental Lag Indicators • Suggested Behaviors for Effective Parenting • Physical Development Characteristics-Guide • Intellectual Development Characteristics-Guide • Social Development Characteristics-Guide • Emotional Development Characteristics-Guide • Resource List

  5. Developmental Tasks Educational Implications • Piaget’s theory : The content of instruction needs to be consistent with the developmental level of the learner. • § Provide concrete props and visual aids, such as models and/or time line • § Use familiar examples to facilitate learning more complex ideas, such as story problems in math. • § Allow opportunities to classify and group information with increasing complexity; use outlines and hierarchies to facilitate assimilating new information with previous knowledge. • § Present problems that require logical analytic thinking; the use of tools such as "brain teasers" is encouraged.

  6. Developmental Lag Indicators A child may present with a serious discrepancy within his or her developmental profile, yet such gaps may dissipate with time

  7. Developmental Lag Indicators

  8. Tips for Effective Parenting • Seek to understand the CURRENT norm • Academic and social expectations are different • Self-reflect on your own possible bias • Ask your child-Use curiosity rather than a guidance approach to get them to share • Seek consultations with available resources such as school psychologist and guidance counselor when in doubt

  9. Intellectual Development:Guide to Effective Parenting • One’s abilities do not develop evenly • Allow for the child to present his strengths • Address the child’s weakness kindly and provide opportunities for them to enhance in these cognitive areas (e.g. use of blocks, puzzles etc…) • Ignore: • Temporary stuttering

  10. Social Development Characteristics:Guide to Effective Parenting • Balance: Be aware of the child’s social circle • Guide them to learn principals of friendships, sharing and loosing. • Acceptance: • Child may identify well with adults outside the family

  11. Emotional DevelopmentGuide to Effective Parenting • One’s abilities do not develop evenly • Be kind,but honest • Use an objective approach to problem solving • Restate the problem • Provide a clear approach to a tangible solution • Provide a timeline • Seek to enhance their independence in specific tasks or presented issues gradually

  12. Resources Resource List Green, Ross. (2005). The explosive child. A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children Child Development Guide (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ca/fosterparents/training/chidev/cd06.htm Garcia, W. Michelle. (2011). Socially Curious and Curiously Social. Social Thinking Curriculum

  13. Questions? Thank You

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