Happy Friday! 5/9/14

1. Happy Friday! 5/9/14 • Today’s Agenda: • Finish Emotional and Social Development • 2 worksheets • Begin Intellectual Development

2. Have you ever said… • “I’ll never do that again!” • Why? When? • We learn by trial and error

3. Intelligence • Definition: the ability to interpret or understand everyday situations and to use that experience when faced with new situations or problems • Shaped by heredity and environment • Certain limits by heredity but greatly influenced by environment

4. Methods of Learning • Incidental: Unplanned learning • Cause and effect • Push something on table, it falls off • Trial and Error: Child tries several solutions before finding one that works • Shapes into a sorter • Pull the cats tail or pet the cat

5. Methods of Learning continued • Imitation: Learning by watching and copying others • Follow older siblings actions • Directed learning: Learning that results from being taught directly • Teaching a child to read • As a group, brainstorm as many examples of assigned type of learning as possible

6. Good Morning! 5/19/14 • Today’s Agenda: • Review what we learned about intellectual development • Finish intellectual development • Review • Test Wednesday on ages 1 to 3 • Emotional and Social, Physical and Intellectual

7. Concept Development • Begin to form concepts • Categories of objects and information • Example: fruit, colors, shapes • 3 Principles that guide learning of words: • Labels are for whole, not parts • “dog” is the whole dog, not just a part • Labels apply to the group to which an object belongs, not to the object • “dog” is not just that dog, but all that look like it • Objects can have only one label • Hard to understand “Mom” can also be “she”

8. Maturity • Maturity brings more understanding • Begin to categorize • Grass and trees are both green • Age 1 ½ they know big and little, by 3 understand medium/middle • By 3, understand boy and girl, woman and man • Young age believe all things that move are alive • Clouds, washing machine, toys • Begin to understand the concept of time • “Soon, before, after” more than tomorrow or yesterday

9. The mind at work • Intellectual activity can be broken down into 7 areas: • Attention • Memory • Perception • Reasoning • Imagination • Creativity • Curiosity • All 7 develop throughout life, but most in this age group

10. Attention • Lots of sensory input all day long • Have to filter through it all • Attention span is VERY short • Big difference between a 1 year old and a 3 year old

11. Memory • Without memory, there would be no learning • Experiences that leave no impression cant affect later actions or thoughts • As children grow, they can react to situations by remembering a prior response • 1 yr old frightened by a dog will be afraid of all animals for a long time • 3 yr old will remember it was that particular dog and only be afraid of it • By age 2, toddlers have a good memory

12. Perception • How they learn about the world • Information received through the senses • Caregivers play a key role in development • Talk about what they are doing, seeing, feeling • Use specific descriptions (look at the black dog) • They ask LOTS of questions • Why? How? • Opportunities for them to learn • Important not to brush them off

13. Reasoning • Critical skills to solve problems and make decisions • Important in recognizing relationships and forming concepts • Basic skills develop at 4-6 months • Between 1 and 3 gradually learn more skills • Shape sorter – develops this skill through trial and error, than remembering • Practice with decision making –giving choices

14. Imagination • Starts to show around age 2 • Enhances learning by allowing them to try new things, be other people • Encourage imagination • Until age 5, children have a hard time knowing where the line is between reality and fantasy

15. Creativity • Imagination is used to produce something • Finger painting • Drawing • Sometimes parents don’t support children being creative – why?

16. Curiosity • Fuels their learning • Important not to be overprotective and let them explore • They’re into everything – they’re learning!