2. Motor Development
• Refers to the development of a child’s bones, muscles,
and ability to move around and manipulates his or her
environment.
• Development of strength, speed and accuracy in the use
of muscular parts of the body.
• Closely related with physical, mental and emotional and
social developments.
4. • Motor development can be divided into
two sections:
•Gross motor development
•Fine motor development
5. Factors Influencing Motor
Development
• Growth of the child- ability to perform more
activity with their body
and affected by age and
size
• Environment – child’s environment has a
large effect on their motor
skill development
6. • Genetics- child are affected both by the
genetics of their ancestors
and their own.
• Muscle tone- the stronger a child is the
more ability they may have to
move and control their body.
7. Sex Differences in Motor Development
• Sex difference has been noticed in the motor
development of the children.
• Boys are superior to the girls in the test of speed,
strength and in motor skills.
• These differences are aggravated with increase in age.
8. • Girls further reach their maximum at the age of
Fourteen in their ability to perform motor acts.
• Boys continue to improve even upto Eighteen years.
• Boys are superior in the activities involving brutal
force while girls in the activities involving
concentration and accuracy
9. MOTOR DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION
• Important pre-requisite for man’s motor development.
• Motor development continues during childhood and
adolescence
• Much importance is given to physical exercise, games,
activities that required speed, accuracy
• It helps to develop many handicrafts that assist him to
adopt a particular career.
10. • At the middle and secondary stages of education,
teacher need to organize various type of activities
• Motor development is a subservient of mental
development
• Motor behaviour serves as a vehicle for most of the
children social-contacts and his learning of ways of
co-operating behaviour`
• Motor development has an important bearing on a
child’s emotional behaviour.
