InTASC Standard #1
Learner Development
The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences (InTASC, 2013).
Rationale:
Brief Description of Evidence: In the spring of 2022, in EDUC 121, Child and Adolescent Development, I created a newsletter called “Growing Minds & Nursery Rhymes” which provided information to parents, grandparents, guardians and community members with the effects of screen media on young childhood development. This newsletter also includes informative resources available to support childhood development and great alternatives to screen media. This newsletter gives me the opportunity to connect with families, colleagues and community members.
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Reflection:
Analysis of What I Learned: By creating this newsletter I became more educated on the importance of early childhood development and how many outside factors can and will play a role in the development of children. From creating this newsletter, I learned about how screen time affects development in children, ways to reduce screen time, activities to replace screen time with and the five developmental domains. From birth, children are rapidly developing the domains of their physical and mental abilities. The five domains include emotional domain, social domain, cognitive domain, language domain and physical domain. By creating this newsletter, I was able to learn more about the emotional, social, cognitive, language and physical domain and the activities that promote growth within each developmental domain.
How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard: By completing this child development newsletter, I was able to demonstrate my competence of InTASC Standard 1 because I was able to create an informative child development newsletter that would educate families, colleagues and community members of child development domains, which include the emotional, social, cognitive, language and physical domains, the positive and negative outside influences of child development and offer alternatives and suggestions to promote growth within childhood development. This activity relates to the theory of Jean Piaget. Jean Piaget states that there are 4 stages of cognitive development. The first stage is known as the sensorimotor stage (birth to 2 years) and states, “infants begin with awareness of their immediate surroundings and focus on what they see and do with no understanding of consequences,” (Kurt, 2022). Jean Piaget states that all children go through these stages of development in order to reach full human intelligence. Therefore, having a better understanding of the stages of cognitive development (as well as others), will make it easier to design and implement developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences for my future students.
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Resources:
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Council of Chief State School Officers. (2013, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development. Washington, DC: Author.
Kurt, D. S. (2022, November 17). Jean Piaget: Biography, Theory and Cognitive Development. Education Library. Retrieved March 27, 2023, from https://educationlibrary.org/jean-piaget-biography-theory-and-cognitive-development/