Developmental Profile †Cognitive

The classroom is the venue with which a s wipe outr learns how to use his/her cognitive abilities for greater understanding and mastery of educational skills corresponding reading, problem solving, critical hazarding and hypothesis testing. Piagets theory of cognitive development shows that each mortal undergoes cognitive milestones which have to be attained by a child before he/she whoremonger go into the next grade. Each stage is cool of cognitive skills that have to do with the cognitive bear upon of information (Atherton, 2005).For example, in the early stages a child first knows that he/she is separate from different people. Next, he/she is adequate to(p) to use language and can nominate objects and what they represent. The school age child norm all(prenominal)y is able to think logically makes use of number, mass and freight conservation and classify objects in terms of respective(a) characteristics. The last stage is when the child can think abstractly and test hy pothesis as rise as be concerned with ideological thought make for and problems (Atherton, 2005).The classroom offers different activities that promote the learning of this cognitive sills, as well as delivering information and experience in ways that are cognitively captivate for their age. This developmental profile report shows how the teacher supports the cognitive development of her students through the instructional approaches he/she uses in the classroom. Ms. Lisa is a 4th grade teacher, she is well certified that children are still in the concrete stage and that they are more able to understand the lessons if it is presented exploitation concrete examples and models that the children could touch and feel or observe.For forthwiths lesson, Miss Lisa is introducing the concept of classifications she has gold, Stacy and Luis to help her in the lesson presentation. Ms. Lisa presents the 3 children with colored balls and in different shapes, She firsts asks amber to descr ibe what she sees and whence to arrange the balls in size. chromatic seems to smile because she knows that her task is very simple, she first places the play ball in the line, followed by the baseball, and so the volleyball game and the basketball. Ms.Lisa check Ambers work and is satisfied, she then asks the class why the balls are chastisely run along up. Now Ms. Lisa tells Stacy to arrange the balls by color, Stacy claps gleefully as she proceeds to arrange the balls with the golf, baseball and volleyball on one side and the basketball on the other side. Stacy seeks the approval of her teacher as she asks whether her answer is correct. Ms. Lisa tells her it is correct and she smiles even more. Finally, Ms. Lisa tells Luis to arrange the balls in shape.The class deteriorate silent and Luis scratched his head and made inquisitive looks to his teacher. He approached the balls not really sure of what to do since all the balls looked the same. Then Ms. Lisa encouraged him to go and try taboo his answer so he would know if it was s ostentation or not. In an instant, Luis eyes brightened and became rounder, he then went to the balls more confident and then went on to lump the balls in one pile. He smiled and said thats it, they are all round, and they are balls. Ms. Lisa smiles and tells the class that Luis is right. The process that Ms.Lisa used to demonstrate classification of different characteristics development the same objects showed that the children have achieved the ability to classify objects, in the process the teacher have contri preciselyed to the self-esteem and bureau of the student in working with her class demonstration. Amber definitely knows she has the right answer and Ms. Lisa did not have to encourage her, on the other hand Stacy was incertain but tried her best, and Ms. Lisa affirmed her answer. Ms. Lisa however pass more time with Luis since he had difficulty with the task, but in a moment of insightful thinking, he was able to give the correct answer.ReferenceAtherton, J. (2005). skill and Teaching Piagets developmental theory. RetrievedNovember 12, 2007, from http//www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm