Learning Objectives: Module 5

Module Objectives:

The "Course Roadmap" button on the home page provides a brief introduction for each module.  In addition to that general overview, each module in the semester also has specific objectives to help frame and direct our study together. You recall from the syllabus that there are Student Learning Outcomes for this course as well as Specific Instructional Objectives for this course. The objectives flow from and connect with the student learning outcomes and instructional objectives. 

Learning Objectives: Module 5

Learning Objectives: Physical Development in Early Childhood

Summarize the overall physical growth 

Describe the changes in brain maturation 

Describe the changes in sleep 

Summarize the changes in gross and motor skills 

Describe when a child is ready for toilet training 

Describe sexual development 

Identify nutritional concerns

 

Learning Objectives: Cognitive Development in Early Childhood

Describe Piaget’s preoperational stage and the characteristics of preoperational thought 

Summarize the challenges to Piaget’s theory 

Describe Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development 

Describe Information processing research on attention and memory 

Describe the views of the neo-Piagetians 

Describe theory-theory and the development of theory of mind 

Describe the developmental changes in language 

Describe the various types of early childhood education 

Describe the characteristics of autism