UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZOFACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION HUMANAS Y TEGNOLOGIAS

ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS

METHODOLOGY II

HOW CHILDREN GROW & LEARN (MIDDLE CHILDHOOD 9-11 AGES)

Mgs. César Narváez

BY: Yessenia Amaguaña, Sandra Cujilema and Pilar Cushpa

Characteristics• Like group activities• Need guidance to stay at a task• Admire and imitate• Are easily motivated• Show independence by disobedience• Need recognition and prize• Feelings of competence• Do not like comparisons

Physical Development

• Tremendous energy consumed rapidly

• Hand/eye coordination well-developed • Children may be very fidgety.

COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Distinguish differences between private and public life

Understanding of reason/consequence.

Makes and carries out plans.

Can use models, graphs, and symbols to solve problems.

MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

• shows interest in reading fictional stories, magazines,and how-to project books.

• develop special interest in collections or hobbies.

• fantasizes and daydreams about the future

• Developing games with complex rules

SOCIAL AND EMOTIONALDEVELOPMENT

• May belittle or defy adult authority

• Enjoys being a member of a club

• Children spend more time with friends

• Tends to see things as right or wrong

• Gang spirit and influence strong

• enthusiastic, and anxious to win.

Children motor skills become smoother and more coordinated than in early childhood. running

Skipping

bicycle riding

skating.

MOTOR SKILLS

ACTIVITIES • Drilling activities Things around you Daily routines • Activities using songs Have a Karaoke Day activity leave the class with a song Students complete black spaces • Flashcards activities Discribing pictures Who I am? • Worksheets activities