Element 7

• Mathematics
• Primary Education

Element 7 - Child Development

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Revision session for core paper B 

What does the expected pattern of development mean?

1. Does not mean anything
2. Expected types of development in order
3. The rate and sequence of child development
4. How many patterns can be seen in their development

Mini mind maps 

Create a mini mindmap to define each area of development. 

Consider adding: activities, key words, how one area may support others, role of the practitioner. 

Use the text book & different coloured pens. 

Areas in focus: Cognitive, Physical, PSED

Attachment theories 

On your tables work together to summarise everything you can recall about attachment and attachment theories. 

Get creative and present this by writing on the tables. 

Understanding attachments

John Bowlby - Critical period, maternal deprivation. innate attachments, seperation anxiety, internal working model, monotropy. 

Mary Ainsworth - Strange situation experiment, secure, insecure avoidant, insecure ambivalent, disorganised attachment styles.

Michael Rutter - Privation (never formed) vs deprivation (separated).

Rudolf Schaffer & Peggy Emerson - The quality and type of attachment which is formed. 

Asocial (0 - 6 weeks), Indiscriminate attachment (6 weeks - 7 months), specific (7 months +), Multiple attachment (10 months+)

Research Schaffer & Emerson's 4 stages of attachment and summarise in own books. 

Receptive & Expressive language

Receptive language - Is receiving language, being able to listen and understand basic instructions. Non verbal communication can support acknowledgment.

Expressive language - Is when a child is able to use language, even a singular sentence. They begin to merge in to the expressive stage.

Using the words above, answer the following questions in your book. 

1. Explain how books can be used to promote language development for a 2 year old. 

2. Explain how nursery rhymes can be used to promote development for a 6 month old. 

3. Identify two ways in which a 14 year olds vocabulary can be development.

Work Sheet tasks

Spend the remainder of the session completing the designated worksheets as revision tool to support your knowledge for Element 7. 

Use this time wisely, we don't have long left until your exams.