Attention to developmental issues is important because teachers believed that knowledge

of adolescent development would influence their teaching practices. It isimportant to know

that teachers recognize the links between their knowledge about their students and effective
practices in the classroom.

Why is it important for teachers to study child development?

It's important that these teachers thoroughly understand the physical, social,
intellectual needs of children. The only way for them to have this thorough
understanding is through studying child development. ... Social and
emotionaldevelopment. Speech and language development.

Why is educational psychology important for teachers?

Educational psychologists apply theories of human development to understand
individual learning and inform the instructional process. While interaction
with teachersand students in school settings is an important part of their work, it isn't
the only facet of the job. Learning is a lifelong endeavor.

Why is it important to understand adolescent development?

Having accurate knowledge of adolescent development is critically importantbecause
beliefs about youth influence perceptions and treatment of young people. ... Thus,
parents, adults who work with youth and young people themselves can benefit from
increasing their knowledge and understanding about adolescent development.
What is the role of teacher in child development?
Preschool teachers play an important role in building a child's success in their first
years of school. Teachers do more than facilitate arts and crafts projects throughout the
day. They provide structure and help children grow in their reading and writing skills,
teach science and help children understand themselves.Jan 16, 2017

Why is study of child development important for

teachers?
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Krishna Srinivasan, Growing kids

Answered Mar 21, 2018 · Author has 913 answers and 3m answer views
We are all well aware of the fact that children are very fast learners. Their capacity to
learn and absorb new information is beyond amazing. Raising children,
therefore, is a complicated task with myriad challenges for everyone involved.

In today's day and age, with the increasing exposure of parents and policy makers to
developmental psychology and related fields, it has become vital that the classroom be
treated as a place where an all-round development of the children can take place.
Before we start discussing the importance of the study of child development, we first
need to understand to what extent a child's development pertains to.

Child development loosely refers to the full scope of skills that a child masters over time
to become a well-adjusted adult in the society. These include 5 main areas in which
these skills could be divided:

1. Physical or Motor skills: the ability to use their body according to their
wish to perform simple tasks, these can fine motor skills relating to use of
fingers to write, draw or build, or gross motor skills where they use their
whole bodies to play, dance, and perform other athletic activities.
2. Social and Emotional skills: the ability to appropriately interact with
other people and the learning to master self-control and self-restraint.
3. Cognitive and Mental skills: the ability to learn new things, remember
information and solve problems.
4. Speech and Language skills: the ability to be able to effectively
communicate through reading, listening, speaking and writing.
5. Sensory Awareness skills: the ability to register sensory information
and learning appropriate responses to various stimuli.
When you are a teacher dealing with a roomful of children with a slew of different
educational and learning needs, it is of extreme importance that you have a good
idea of matters pertaining to child development.

 Even though every child learns and grows at his/her own pace, there are
certain generalities relating to child development that give an idea of how a
child of a certain age group is supposed to perform at different tasks.
 These general markers of child development can help effectively observe the
progress of children in a classroom.
 Teachers need to closely watch for these markers of development
to make sure the children meet their developmental milestones.
 These developmental milestones are a loose set of skills that most children of
a certain age seem to master at roughly the same time. These act as useful
milestones to ensure ideal development.
Apart from ensuring that a child is on the right track, another important aspect of
observing the development of children is the early identification of any disorders that a
child might be suffering from.

 These could be anything from learning disorders like attention deficit

hyperactivity disorder to developmental disorders like autism spectrum
disorders.
 Early detection of these can go a long way in helping young children in
learning how to deal with these conditions without shame and loss of
confidence.
 Additionally, it helps to identify and identify children with special needs.
When all this is taken care of, then come the educational needs.

 Not every student is going to be able to grasp everything at exactly the same
speed.
  Having
identified the needs of individual students, teachers can plan their
lessons accordingly, keeping in mind that they have to engage the brightest
mind and carry the slowest at the same time as well.
 If a teacher is too slow, there is a likelihood that he/she might lose his/her
best student because the student is too bored. That being said, however, if
the teacher goes too fast, he/she might lose his/her slow students because
they cannot keep up with the teacher.
 A teacher has a very important task of not only educating young minds in
worldly knowledge, but to ensure proper all-around development of every
student in the classroom.
 Teachers are an important and influential part of a child's development.
Suffice it to say that the study of child development is a necessary part of
the duties of a teacher.
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Jennifer Kilday, MA Developmental Psychology (2011)

Answered Jun 7, 2018 · Author has 124 answers and 54k answer views
Schoolchildren interact with teachers on a daily basis. It’s important that these teachers
thoroughly understand the physical, social, intellectual needs of children. The only way
for them to have this thorough understanding is through studying child development.

Child development are sets of milestones that are categorized as follows:

1. Cognitive development
2. Social and emotional development
3. Speech and language development
4. Fine motor skill development
5. Gross motor skill development
Neglecting just one of the five is detrimental to the growth and health of a child. So it’s
necessary that child development is included in the formal training for teachers.

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Luis Maimoni, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Masada Homes (2013-present)
Answered Mar 2, 2018 · Author has 964 answers and 196.9k answer views
Because the child’s stage of development has a huge impact on how the child learns.
Also, cognitive abilities of a 5 year old, a 10 year old, and a 15 year old are vastly
different, so what they can learn differs. Finally, understanding child development will
help that teacher understand what, actually, is being taught to pre-school children vs.
elementary vs. middle school vs. high school.

Understanding child development provides the context for the answers to all of these
issues. Teachers shouldn’t try to teach without a basic understanding of child
development. If they’re successful teachers, they’ll learn a lot about child development
as their careers progress from the experience of seeing what works, and what doesn’t.

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Adel Jardin, Registered Nurse whose son is on the autistic spectrum

Updated Apr 28, 2018 · Author has 519 answers and 227.2k answer views
Child Development is important for teachers to know to enable them to find ways or
strategies on how to improve a child’s learning developmentt skills.

Each child is unique and learn in a different pace. A child may excel in academics but
not on his behaviour or vice versa. Still others may not excel on both and needs
improvement.

By knowing the different stages of a child’s development (Mental, Behavioural and

Gross-Motor), the teacher could properly assessed whether a particular child has
learning problems and needs additional help or support.

This is also a way for them to know how to properly discipline them if they are
misbehaving. They could make a behavioural assessment plan and implement it through
behavioural charts and Time-outs.

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Rebekah Maccaby, parent, and former educational interpreter

Answered Aug 11, 2017 · Author has 1.3k answers and 1.6m answer views
Originally Answered: Why should teachers have knowledge of child development?
The answer given already from Teresa Gemellaro is pretty good, and sums up the main
reason that teachers need to know about child development. I wanted to add, though,
that teachers are usually the first to spot a child who is a little off, and refer them for
diagnosis— and I’m not accusing teachers of trying to medicate troublesome children—
that is a minority of cases. I mean children who have problems that are not glaringly
obvious to parents, who see only their child, and maybe one or two siblings, but
teachers, who see many, many children, as well as being schooled in what is a “normal
variety,” and what is actually a problem, are in the best position to identify things like
dyslexia, autism in a child with good language, and ADD.

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Esther Finzi, Parent Consultant (2015-present)

Answered Jul 5, 2018 · Author has 570 answers and 128.8k answer views
Originally Answered: Why should a teacher study child development in their career?
The short answer would be: professional accountability. Educators must be familiar with
child development stages to ensure curriculum design that is developmentally
appropriate.

Curriculum design should be ‘developmentally appropriate.’ NAEYC (The National

Association for the Education of Young Children) definition is:

“Developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) is an approach to teaching grounded in

the research on how young children develop and learn and in what is known about
effective early education. Its framework is designed to promote young children’s
optimal learning and development. DAP involves teachers meeting young children
where they are, both as individuals and as part of a group; and helping each child
meet challenging and achievable learning goals.

When designing curriculum the following factors are taken into account:

The place (country, school setting)

The history of the place,

The culture, the subject,

The time period (annually, monthly, weekly, daily)

The age of the children,

The socio-economic status of the students

The prior knowledge of the students and

Their ability to grasp the new concepts.

The curriculum is based on the fundamentals such as: philosophical, historical,

psychological, and social. It is defined to a specific educational setting (pre-school,
elementary school, Middle school, high school and higher education.) It is designed and
planned by the school leadership and it is executed by the class educators. The
curriculum consists of: Goals, Objectives and evaluation.

The Goals- are the long term outcomes needed to be reached.

The Objectives - are the short term steps taken in order to achieve the end goals.

The Evaluation- is the assessment done (in various forms) at the end of a defined
period (semester, annual, etc.)

Hope you find this helpful. Good luck!

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Joan Chin, I was a gullible kid. Still am.
Answered Oct 9, 2016 · Author has 813 answers and 436.1k answer views
You can’t say the same thing to a 16 year old and expect a 6 year old to understand.

16 year olds can connect things to each other to support the main topics. That’s why they
have you write all those essays. An 8 year old is not yet fully capable of that.

A video I watched showed the difference between an 8 yr old and a 16 yr old and how
they answered the question: “What would happen if we didn’t have thumbs?”

The 8 year old was an 8 year old and said that people could no longer have thumb wars.

The 16 year old mentioned a friend’s observation on how most everything is built for
right-handed people. He connected that to everything that is right-handed: Desks,
doors, even stationery and writing utensils.

To the 8 year old, the rules of a game were changed. To the teenager, the whole world
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