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Core Concepts Of Child Development

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The core concepts have been very helpful in understanding how to reach optimal development in school-aged children, which is not an easy task. These core concepts help give some guidance in furthering more research, intervention and prevention programs and provide a resource for professionals. “Taken together, these diverse sources of knowledge advance understanding of the process of child development and enhance the capacity to promote competence, prevent disorders, and correct maladaptive patterns”. (Shonkoff and Phillips, 2000) “Human development is shaped by a dynamic and continuous interaction between biology and experience”. (Shonkoff and Phillips, 2000). Child development is influenced by many things including, parenting styles, environment, …show more content…

An example of that desire is the “why?” stage children go through, where they inquire and want to learn everything. Because they have a desire to learn they do so through their environment as well things we teach them. Children need a stimulating environment to grow in, for young toddlers that may be playing with pots and pans, for older children that could be things like Legos or building blocks. This concept has deepened my understanding of children in the way I teach. The biggest thing I have learned in relation to this concept is becoming a better teacher and taking signals from my children. This meaning taking breaks when needed and taking advantage of interests my children show as a chance to learn something. Strategies that can help foster optimal development in children in regard to this concept are giving children a stimulating environment where the can explore and learn, teaching children age-appropriate material when they show interest in a topic and helping them find the answers to their questions as opposed to giving them the

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The three prime areas are the foundations for a child’s learning and development, it helps the child’s ability to learn and form relationships as well as their wellbeing. As the children get older they become increasingly competent and need to broaden their skills. This is where the four specific areas aim to do this. A child that is more confident from doing the prime areas will build a better platform for success when starting the more specific areas. The children are all unique and progress at different paces, this should be taken into consideration when planning for a child.

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wafic Dabbous 201102323 Throughout their development, children are influenced by numerous experiences. As they are growing, their growth will include both physical and emotional development. Factors such as their family, education as well as their entourage will play a big role in that development. Other factors include the nature of the environment they are exposed to, whether it is facilitative or not.

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For children, it is important to have suitability of varied activities to help the children feel a part of their own learning as well as engagement in the importance of taking control of their own leaning through play. For

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The Early Years Foundation Stage contains all the principles to help achieve positive outcomes for children and breaks them down into smaller units. The four main areas include; » Unique child – Every child is a unique child, who is learning and can be resilient, confident, self-assures and capable. » Positive relationships – Children learn to be strong and manage feelings through positive relationships. » Enabling environment – Children learn and develop well in enabling environments, which their experiences respond to the own individual needs and there is a strong partnership between the practitioners and the child’s parents/carers. » Learning and development – Children embrace learning and development in different rates and ways.

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There are multiple factors that can influence a child and young persons development and these include the individuals background, therefore the family life and where the child originates from, their health influences development and so does the environment that they are surrounded by. Background and environment: Children and young people come from a range of cultures, environments and circumstances and so many families will go through difficult changes during the child 's early life. Some of these include, a new sibling arriving, a breakdown between the parents or moving country. These have a significant affect on a child or young persons development because they will not have that stability in their life for example, if the child is constantly moving houses and countries it means that nothing can be permanent for them and they struggle to develop relationships and friendships with those who they meet. Any of these can affect a child 's

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Thus when we talk of development we need to understand the patterns of biological, cognitive and socioemotional changes that a child goes through from birth to lifespan which is why it is important to introduce a child to age appropriate education else a child may not be able to pick up for eg if we introduce a child to writing at an early age he may not be able to do so as he is still developing his fine motor skills. When we talk of biological development it’s the changes in physical growth of the child and is genetically inherited and will also include the brain and motor skill, cognitive will emphasise the child’s ability to think, language development and problem solving skills and the socioemotional development will look at the child’s relationship with other people and changes in ones emotions and personality. There are various stages of development like infancy from birth to about 24 months where the child is completely dependent on the adult where many activities like language development, sensory and motor coordination , social interaction and

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