APPLICATION

1. Answer this question with a learning partner. What are the implications of these
developmental tasks to your role as a teacher and or parent? Let's pay particular attention
to each of the developmental stages prenatal period, infancy, early childhood, middle and
late childhood and adolescence.

Preschool period - what are pregnant others supposed to do to ensure the birth of a normal
and healthy baby?

Infancy what should mothers and baby sitters do and not do to help infants develop normally
and healthily?

Let's do #1. Early Childhood What are preschool teachers supposed to do with preschoolers?
Help them develop readiness for school and not to be too academic in teaching approach. They
ought to give much time for preschoolers to play. Or perhaps help preschoolers develop school
readiness by integrating children's games in school activities.

Middle and Late childhood

Elementary school teachers ought to help their pupils by

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Parents ought to help their children

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Adolescence
High school teachers ought to help their students by
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Parents ought to help their teenage children

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Early adulthood College

Teachers ought to help their students
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Parents can help their children who are now young adults
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Middle adulthood
What should adults do to obtain satisfaction in their career?
What should schools teach for students to be prepared for middle adulthood? In their retirement,
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Late adulthood
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How should children relate to their parents in their late adulthood stage? What should teachers
teach to students on how they should treat and relate to parent, grandparents in their la ate
adulthood?
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2. Allow small groups to do each of the following:

a. Come up with an object to symbolize each period or stage of development

b. Do a multimedia presentation of the outstanding characteristics and developmental
tasks of each developmental stage. You may use the text of Santrock found under
each collage of pictures in the Activity Phase of this lesson
c. Sing an appropriate song for each developmental stage.

3. Discuss the meaning of the quotation beneath the title of the lesson. Relate it to the stages
of development.

SYNAPSE STRENGTHENERS

1. Complete this unfinished sentence.

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2. As a group, show the developmental stages by means of PowerPoint presentation or a

video clip that you work inclusive or the ages. Write also the outstanding characteristic
trait and developmental task of each developmental stage.

TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING

I. Put a check (V) beside those statements that are correct and an (x) beside those that are
wrong. If your answer is an x, explain why.

____________1. Developmental tasks are only for the first 3 stages of human development.
____________2. Failure of achieving developmental tasks in an earlier stage to master the
developmental task in the next stage.
____________3. Preschool age corresponds to early childhood
____________4. Adolescence is middle and late childhood stage
____________5. Teenage is middle childhood.
____________6. Mastery of fundamental skills is a major concern during early childhood.
____________7. Play is a great need of children in middle childhood.
____________8. Preparing children for school readiness is the major concern of middle
childhood.

RESEARCH CONNECTION
1. Read a research related to developmental stages and developmental tasks. Fill out the matrix
below.
Problem Research methodology

Source: (bibliographical entry format)

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Findings Conclusions

How are the findings of this research useful to teachers?

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REFLECTION

1. Reflect on your early childhood, middle childhood and late childhood days. Were you
able to acquire the developmental tasks expected of early, middle, late childhood and
adolescence. What facilitated your acquisitions of the ability to preform such tasks?
Write your reflections.

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