Help please Understanding child and young person development- Theories of Development

[samanthabrunt]

Hi. Im doing the NVQ 3 Supporting teaching and Learning and Im stuck on unit 10: a3 Theories of Devolpment.

Task 2 is asking what stage/s do you think the pupils are at?

please can someone give me any idea what this means as the notes and the books are not much help. I have found a lot of the questions to be a little under explained but I have no idea what this is asking for.

Thank you

[leonhajay]

You need to look up Bandura, Skinner, Pavlov and other child development theorists, read up on their theories the question will make a lot more sense then.
You will be able to talk about the copy cat theory or learning from example. Stages usually depend on age groups for example a 2year old may pretend to hoover but a 4 year old will pretend to hoover whilst saying things like oh what a mess and use unhappy facial expressions because they have possibly seen and herd their parent saying this. Also the older the more understanding and knowledge as well.

Hope that helps