Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan

School of Education
First Semester 2010-2011

ECP 29/ EDA

Semaña, Giraldyne D.
BEED- 3
July 9, 2010

Assignment 1:

1. Research work on:

a.) Havighurst’s Developmental tasks during the Life Span

He identifies three sources of developmental tasks (Havighurst, 1972)

• Tasks that arise from physical maturation. For example, learning

to walk, talk, and behave acceptably with the opposite sex during
adolescence; adjusting to menopause during middle age

• Tasks that from personal sources. For example, those that emerge
from the maturing personality and take the form of personal values
and aspirations, such as learning the necessary skills for job success.
• Tasks that have their source in the pressures of society. For
example, learning to read or learning the role of a responsible citizen.

Havighurst has identified six major age periods:

• infancy and early childhood (0-5 years),

• middle childhood (6-12 years)
• adolescence (13-18 years),
• early adulthood (19-29 years),
• middle adulthood (30-60 years), and
• Later maturity (61+).

b.) Stages in the Life Span (from Infancy to Old Age) By Elizabeth
Hurlock

There are eight stages of development usually ascribed to the life span of
human beings. It starts on Pre-Natal stage is on conception to birth. While,
Infancy is a stage of birth to 2 years of age. Early Childhood ranges from 2 to
6 years of age. Late Childhood ranges from 6 to 12 years of age.
Adolescence starts on puberty until 18 years of age. While in Early Adulthood
is 18 to 40 years of age. On Middle Age is 40 years of age to retirement.
Lastly at Old Age is retirement to death.

2. Focused on early childhood, point out the similarities, differences

and the relationship of the two theories by Havighurst and Hurlock.

The relationship of the two theories by Havighurst and Hurlock are on the
child’s developmental stage that is ascribed in the life span of the child ages
2 to six years old. The three sources of the developmental tasks that
pertained to Havighurst is likely connected to Hurlock’s Early Childhood
stage ranges from the ages 2 to six years old. This is wherein children will
learn skills, building attitudes, learning to get along, learning appropriate
masculine or feminine social role, developing everyday living.

3. Cite 3 importance in knowing the developmental changes of

children in your preschoolers and be able to explain why.

The first importance that I would like to know the developmental changes of
children in my preschool is their behavior. Behavior comes first because I
believed that children are still developing and building wholesome attitudes
towards oneself as a growing organism and how he reacts and responds to
other children. The second importance is learning on physical skills or just
ordinary games. Children in this stage tend to have rigorous games and play.
And the third importance is on the child’s development on morality and
values is to let the child learn from what is right and what is wrong and other
developing concepts that is necessary for everyday living.

4. Give at least 3 significant facts that you as a teacher know about

a child’s development?

The first significant fact that I know in child’s development is the imagination
and interaction of the child is present. The child is able to imagine and starts
being creative because it is a stage where the growth period is fast and the
child should start learning the things and environment that surround him.
The second significant fact is the child’s gender role. When a child knows his
gender, he acts accordingly masculine for male and feminine for female. The
third fact is on social adjustment. In this new generation children are
adjusted to experience on technology where they are exposed to the
environment full of media.

5. What do we mean by individual differences? How can this be

observed in the classroom setting? How does this differ with the
phrase “each individual is unique’?

Teachers must be aware of the differences among the students. Some

factors influencing differences among learners are: age, sex, family, and
community background. This can be observed in the classroom setting by
always looking at children’s profile and most especially on their behavior.
The phrase ‘each individual is unique” is individual strengths, weaknesses,
and personality.

6. With the present generation and the people’s way of life, what
impact can they have on the children’s development at the early
childhood stage?

As what I have seen today in this modern life, children’s children

development at the early childhood stage is more prone in media. Children
at the age of four to six years of age can manipulate computers, televisions,
telephones, and any other media available at home and community. Many
children act as if they are adults it is because of this so called way of life that
we are living in this world of modern technology.

7. As an Atenean, what contributions can you give to you coming

pupils when you are already in the teaching field? How can you
apply what you have learned in the classroom setting?

As an Atenean, the contribution that I can contribute to my coming pupils is

to share my talent in creativity and story telling. I am good in drawing and
painting and would like to teach these children on how to draw and paint in
their free creative way. And on story telling I want to share them stories that
would interest them and learn moral lessons from it. But I would also like
them to teach on to know how to read, to be able to count, and other skills
that they will wish to learn and develop.