MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology

College of Education
Syllabus
First Semester, AY 2013-2013
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II.
III.

Course No. Ed 122PRT

Course Title: Child and Adolescent Development
Course Description: This is a course designed to examine changes in thinking, feeling, and relationships during four
development periods: infancy (the first year), toddlerhood, early childhood (ages 4-6), middle childhood (ages 7-11), and
adolescence (ages 12-19). A thorough discussion of what happens during these
periods and why. There will be further discussion about the problems and controversies involving changes during this period.
This course will most benefit students
interested in better understanding how and why children change as well as students interested in helping children develop
optimally.
IV.
Credit:
3 units
Hours/Weeks:
54 hours/20 wks
Pre-requisite:
Psychology 1
Co-requisite:
Ed 121, FS 1
V.
General Objectives: At the end of the semester, the students are expected to:
1. Describe changes during cognitive, emotional, and social development during four life periods.
2. Explain changes using central developmental theories, concepts, findings, and methods.
3. Compare and contrast developmental changes in diverse socio-cultural settings.
4. Analyze arguments about child development
5. Propose solutions to common problems experienced by children and adolescents
Course Content
Outline
VI.
Overview of Course & Child
Development

Specific Objectives

Topic Outline

Identify and distinguish the Study of Child Development

changes of child
nature v. nurture
development
continuity v. discontinuity

Methodology
Brainstorming
Clustering
Video showing

Enrichme
nt

Film
showin

individual differences
Biological-maturational: The child
grows
Constructivist: The child explores
Environmental-behavioral
framework: The child is shaped
Cultural-context: The child joins a
society

Ecological approach to your own

childhood
Infancy

Describe the changes in

locomotion, perception,
memory, and language.

Relate and explain

changes in the infants
brain to changes in motor
activity, perception and
memory.

Explain the Vygotskys

concept of the zone of

Changes in locomotion,
Video
perception, memory, and
Observation and
language
case study
Walking: evidence for both genetic
programming and learning;
systems approach to development
of walking
Perception
Affordances----links to motor
movement
Relate changes in the infants
brain to changes in motor activity,
perception, and memory
Maturation of frontal lobe (part of
brain) leading to inhibition of
impulses which helps baby not do
certain areas
Explaining change
Assimilation v. accommodation
Vygotskys concept of the zone of
proximal development

proximal development

Toddlerhood

Describe changes in
childrens thinking and
language
Development of object
permanence

Comparing change in diverse

situations
Two examples of how cultural
customs can influence the
development of motor activities.
Piagets Cognitive Development
Perceiving objects, surfaces, and
people

Changes in childrens thinking and

language
Development of object
permanence
Development of thinking in
abstracts
Development of communicating
by symbols
Describe changes in the
Changes in the brain and relate
brain and relate these
these changes to changes in fine
changes to changes in fine motor activities
motor activities
More neurons and more neural
connections: exuberant
synapsogenesis.
More myelination: insulation
Explain the development
around neurons to increase signal
of attachment from Freuds speed
and Bowlbys perspective
Great development of frontal and
prefrontal cortext
Fine motor control requires
inhibition of impulses.
The development of attachment
from Freuds and Bowlbys

Question
Frames for
Developing
Higher-Level
Questions

Case
Study
and
observ
ation

perspective

Early Childhood Cognitive

Development

Discuss the UNEVENNESS

IN DEVELOPMENT and
EGOCENTRIC THINKING

UNEVENNESS IN DEVELOPMENT
EGOCENTRIC THINKING
Confusing appearances with
reality
Crude or semi-logical thinking
(problems with cause and efect)
Animistic thinking
Role of sociodramatic play as an
influence in childrens
development.
unevenness of cognitive
development during the early
childhood period according to
information-processing
unevenness of cognitive

Sequencing
Graphic
Organizer
Activity

development during the early

childhood period according to
biological
Differences in maturation of
mental modules (examples of
mental modules: GRAMMAR
LEARNING, cause-and-effect
detection, classification, etc)
Differences in intake of
experiences into skeletal
principles and core domains
unevenness of cognitive
development during the early
childhood period according to
cultural-context
Scripts vary across cultures,
contexts, ages, and even gender
Cognitive and Language
Development
Early Childhood
Socioemotional
Development

Describe how children

develop sex role identity
during early childhood.
Describe how children
develop ethnic and
personal identity during
early childhood

Description on how children

Story map
develop sex role identity during
activity
early childhood.
Description on how children
develop ethnic and personal
identity during early childhood.
Description on how self-regulation
(self-control) develops during
early childhood
8 skills needed for socioemotional
competence
Use gender-schema theory to
explain how children develop sex

role identity
three types of parenting styles
influences their attitudes towards
their own ethnic identity and the
ethnic identity of others?
Late Childhood Cognitive
Development

Differentiate the two of the

most dramatic changes in
brain development during
the transition to late
childhood.

two of the most dramatic changes

in brain development during the
transition to late childhood
acquisition of conservation occur
in all children in all cultures?
metamemory and metacognition
and why might it be important for
improving childrens cognitive
skills?
memory: classification approaches

Late Childhood
Socioemotional
Development

Distinguish the major

changes in childrens
social and emotional
development during
middle childhood

major changes in childrens social

and emotional development
during middle childhood
Social perspective taking
increases
Change in play: more rules but
negogiation and flexibility
Self-concept / esteem becomes
less positive, more realistic (?)
through process of selfcomparison
Greater time with and influence of
peers; less with parents
Greater complexity in considering
moral problems (e.g. Kohlbergs

Observation and
pair share
activity

stories and Damons fairness)

Kolhberg described three levels of
moral reasoning (
According to Damon, how
differently do younger and older
children respond to the positive
justice situation (fairness). You do
not need to know all six levels just
the age trend
most important component of
socioemotional competence
according to Selman?
Emotional Intelligence
Adolescent Biosocial
Development

Determine the behavior

and characteristics of
adolescent biosocial
development.

Teens lack self-discipline and go to

sleep late and wake up late.
Teens are much more vulnerable
to peer pressure than younger
children.
Left to themselves, teens will get
into trouble
Adolescence is usually a time of
storm and stress
Adolescents and parents usually
fight
Parents have little influence over
teens
Areas perrforming more basic
functions mature earlier; areas for
higher-order functions (emotion,
self-control) mature later. The prefrontal cortex, which handles
reasoning and other executive

Role Play

functions, emerged late in

evolution, and is among the last to
mature.
The brain changes in
schizophrenia may be an
exaggeration of this
developmental pattern.
Intriguingly, this sequence of brain
changes is reversed in Alzheimers
disease.
Adolescent Cognitive &
Identity Development

is adolescent thinking different

Individual selfthan patterns of thinking in middle Reflection
childhood?
activity
stages that adolescents seem to
go through to develop a nonheterosexual orientation (e.g.
homosexual, bisexual,
transgender)? Note: cultural
conservatives would charge that
this stage theory is not value-free.
Sensitization
Identity confusion
Identity assumption
Identity integration
Suicide is the second leading killer
of adolescents
identify and discuss several
factors which may lead teens to
try to kill themselves (e.g.,
biological maturation, social
development, etc).

Stages of Adolescent
Development
Basic Stages of Child
Development
Six Stages of Child
Development
Stages of Play in Child
Development
Child Social Development
Stages
Freud's Stages of Child
Development
VI.

Requirements
Quizzes
Major Exams
Action-based
research
VII. References
Child and Adolescent
Development Stages |
eHow.com
http://www.ehow.com/list_6
311646_child-adolescentdevelopmentstages.html#ixzz0vVbB3LJ1
American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, Vol. 72, No. 2,
521S-528s, August 2000

Adolescence is a challenging
period for both children and their
parents. Three stages of
adolescence - early, middle, and
late, are experienced by most
teens, but the age at which each
stage is reached varies greatly
from child to child

Role Play
Child
Development
Strategies

 2000 American Society

for Clinical Nutrition
Parent-child discussions of
anger and sadness: The
importance of parent and
child gender during middle
childhood
Janice Zeman, Carisa PerryParrish, Michael Cassano
Published Online: Jun 15
2010 11:27AM
DOI: 10.1002/cd.269

http://www.loni.ucla.edu/~t
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