NVQ 4 Unit 411 : research into the influences on children’s intellectual development

NVQ level 4 Unit 411

question K4D957

Relevant research into the influences on children’s intellectual development and how this research may influence practice

[SomeoneSpecial]

its your theorists on how children learn intellectual skills such as problem solving, and influences would be diet, genes, upbringing, reasorces, experiances, etc you could talk about nature v nurture.

for example reasurch shows that if a child has not got their basic needs met -one being sleep/rest then they can lack concentration (add quote) which in turn will effect their intellectual development as without good concentration they may not be able to problem solve etc. this reasurch influences practice as now our settings have routienes in place where there is an oppertunity for "quiet time" where the child is able to rest.

hope this helps

Thank you yes that helped, now i just have to find a theorist. I do have a few books with information regarding theorists but can't seem to find one covering intellectual development

[SomeoneSpecial]

try and think a bit broader if you word it right you can use any learning theorist e.g piaget says we learn through experiances-therefore we know what a child experiances will influence their intellectual development this influences practice as we try to provide a wide range of activities where the child can experiance different things for example our role play and story activities allows the child to experiance different use of language developing language concepts.

uhm skinner -positive negative reinforcement, frobel believed in imaginative play margret mcmillan agreed but thought mathamatical concepts should be taught through structured activities

bruner talks about scaffolding helping children to the top of a problem to develop key skills

also search for the different theories on intellectual stages

vygotsky believes your born able to understand language etc

hope this helps

if you have the penni tassoni book then look from page 195 on. i lost mine a few weeks ago and cant look for it bc we are in the midle of moving but if i had it i could help more. sorry its prob been packed somwhere.

Thank you for that i have actually managed to find someone in a book i bought Title How Children learn. This is my last knowledge question in my last unit. Sometimes i think i over look what is staring me in the face. Thank you for your quick responses I now feel confident in answering this question i should also be able to refer to Unit 403 for some of it.

[SomeoneSpecial]

your welcome good luck just stick at it

SomeoneSpecial,
Thank you! Your help is brilliant, took ages for me to get my head round theorists and all your posts are great!

[SomeoneSpecial]

your very welcome