Children

Children

1. Characteristics

   • emotional excitable
   • developing conceptually
   • get bored easily
   • excellent mimics
   • developing literacy and numeracy
   • physical energy
     • total physical response
   • learn slowly
   • forget things easily
   • if interested they can be focused for a long time
   • self-oriented
   • developing confidence
   • easily frustrated
   • developing motorskills

2. Piaget

   • actively constructing their thinkings by acting upon the physical and social environment
     • individual actions and exploration
   • defined stages of intellectual development

3. Bruner

   • active agent in his/her onw learning, selecting, retaining and transforming informaton to construct knowlede
     • knoelwdge is shaped by their unique way of seeing and interpreting the world
   • scaffolding

4. Vigotsky

   • adults work actively to improve children's level of development
   • speech precedes thinking
     • speech allows children to develop their thinking
   • children construct their understanding from social interaction of their learning contexts

5. are unique

   • however there are similarities among them
   • multiple intelligences
     • linguistic
       • social
         • logical
           • spatial
             • kinesthetic
               • musical
                 • interpresonal
                   • intrapersonal
         • naturalist

6. need to PLAY

   • imagination and emotions
   • physical and cognitive development
   • clear goals and materials
     • and real world feedback

7. Wells

   • children need to talk about matters that are connected to them