5. Physical development, deal with the changes
in the body;
Personal development, means the changes in
an individual’s personality;
Social development refers to changes in the
way an individual relates to others;
Cognitive development
gradual and orderly changes in thinking by
which mental processes become more
complete and sophisticated.
6. Piaget divided the cognitive development into
four stages:
1. sensory motor
2. Preoperational
3. concrete operational
4. formal operational.
Different children may pass through the
stages at some what different rates
10. Children's thinking becomes formal, logical
and abstract
Hypothetical conditions
The ability to reason about situations and
conditions that have not been experienced.
11. Constructive approach
Facilitate rather than direct learning
Consider child level of knowledge
On going assessment
Turn the classroom into a setting exploration
and discovery