Developmental & Cultural Influences on School-Aged Children by

Brain Development

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:21:25 UTC

Brain develops from the bottom up. Children and early adolescence respond out of emotion first (amgydula) and by adulthood should be able to use logical thinking (pre-frontal cortex)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:25:39 UTC

The degree to that students' have their basic needs met will impact their ability in school.

Systemic Racism in the American School System

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:31:10 UTC

Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:37:05 UTC

School counselors and teachers must be aware of both a student's cognitive age and numerical age to know how to best engage the student in the educational system.

ACE

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:41:41 UTC

The number of adverse childhood experiences that child experiences can impact the child's development in physical, emotional, and social health. The higher the number of ACES, the more likely that the child will have more difficulty adjusting socially in the school setting verses a child with a lower ACES score.

Creating School Culture

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:46:03 UTC

Selman's Stages of Friendship

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:52:18 UTC

The way students in the school setting interact with one another will vary based on the developmental level of appropriate friendship.

Emotional Development: Roots of Empathy (ROE)

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:56:06 UTC

School based intervention program designed to teach children empathy, understanding for others, and emotional boundaries.

Cultural Divide in School Systems

caawalt — 2024-02-10 20:59:36 UTC

When school systems are funded on property tax dollars, those in the wealthy neighborhoods continue to get increased educational resources for their students, while those in poorer neighborhoods have a lack of educational resources for their students.

Appropriate Learning in the School Based on Developmental Age & Needs

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:02:27 UTC

Students do not all learn the same at different developmental ages. Students have different educational needs during each developmental stage. Schools need to start teaching students based on their developmental age and not just teaching to test.

Social Development

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:05:35 UTC

A student's psychosocial developmental level can impact their ability to interact with peers in the school setting.

Developmentally Appropriate Learning Activities

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:16:14 UTC

Schools can implement developmentally appropriate classroom activities that provide students with developmental learning: physically, socially, and cognitively.

Cultural Effects in the Classroom

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:28:00 UTC

Mainstream American classrooms tend to reflect "American" values and norms of academic achievement and independence. However, with the ever increasing diversity in the school setting, school systems need to learn how to teach all students in culturally appropriate ways to best help students in their overall development.

Whole Child Development

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:33:25 UTC

Students develop as they learn more about themselves, interactions with others, and the world around them.

Cultural Differences in the Classroom

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:38:53 UTC

A student's cultural differences and responses in the classroom setting that differ from the teachers' does not mean that it is a behavioral issue.

Divided Identities in the Educational System

caawalt — 2024-02-10 21:44:48 UTC