CE114 Infant, Toddler and Early Childhood Development Unit 6 – Social & Cognitive Development

1. CE114 Infant, Toddler and Early Childhood DevelopmentUnit 6 – Social & Cognitive Development Welcome! I am so glad that you were able to make it tonight. Grab something to drink, get comfortable and enjoy chatting with your classmates before the seminar begins at 8 PM.

2. Tonight’s Quote "When you read with your child, you show them that reading is important, but you also show them they're important - that they are so important to you that you will spend 20 minutes a day with your arm around them." Laura Bush (2003) Moscow Children's Book Festival, reported in Library and Information Update, November 2003

3. Unit Six Social and Cognitive Development of the Toddler • Social and moral development • Psychosocial development • Factors influencing psychosocial development • Unit Six project • Language and literacy development • Factors influencing language and literacy development

4. Assignments for Week 6 • Read • Chapter 9: • "Social Learning and Social Cognition" • "Social Interactions and Play Behaviors" • Chapter 10: • "Information-Processing Perspectives" • "Literacy Development" • "Role of the Early Childhood Professional" • Watch 2 Videos on cognitive and emotional development • Read web resource - "Infant and Toddler Transitions" • Respond to discussion questions • Complete project – Parent Handout

5. Social and Moral Development • Egocentric • Pro-social behaviors • Moral development

6. Psychosocial Development • Gender Awareness • Psychosexual Development • Awareness of Diversity • Development of Self-control • Temperament • Social Interactions/Play • Toddler Emotions • Fears and Anxieties • Self-Comforting Behaviors • Self-concept

7. Factors Influencing Psychosocial Development • Quality of play experiences • Social learning in many contexts • Support for special development needs • Toddler mental health • Quality of attachments • Support and encouragement of a sense of autonomy • Temperament • Guidance/discipline techniques • Opportunities for social interactions

8. Unit Six ProjectParent handout

9. Sample

10. Field Trip! • Go to our WikiSpace • Watch video “Growing Minds – Cognitive Development” • Read “9 Secrets of Confident Kids” • Based on these two resources, what can you as an EC professional do to encourage cognitive development in toddlers? • Please wait to share until I call on your group. • Group 1 is first names beginning with A-J • Group 2 is first names beginning with K-M • Group 3 is first names beginning with N-Z

11. Language and Literacy Development • Language development • Interaction between thought and language • Vocabulary development • Oral language approximations • Literacy development • Information Processing perspectives • Social interactionist perspectives • Contextualistic perspectives

12. How Does a Toddler Think? • Is reliant on sensory experiences • Is perception bound • Is egocentric and lacks perspective • Relies on language for meaning • Makes meaning by relating past/present • Benefits from repetition • Developing sense of cause and effect • Awkward in organizing/expressing thoughts • Awkward in organizing/retelling events • Impulsive • Confuses fantasy/reality • Very literal • Appears to be illogical to a mature thinker *The Young Child, page 286

13. Factors Influencing Cognitive, Language and Literacy Development • Types and quality of experiences • Diversity in play • Biological origins of thinking and language • Variety of print contexts

14. I hope you enjoyed today’s chat. Have a great week!!