Developmental Profile †Cognitive

The classroom is the venue with which a tyke learns how to use his/her cognitive abilities for greater understanding and mastery of educational skills like reading, problem solving, critical thinking and hypothesis testing. Piagets opening of cognitive development shows that each person undergoes cognitive milestones which maintain to be attained by a child before he/she back tooth go into the next pose. Each stage is composed of cognitive skills that have to do with the cognitive processing of information (Atherton, 2005).For example, in the early stages a child get-go knows that he/she is separate from other people. Next, he/she is able-bodied to use language and can identify objects and what they represent. The school age child normally is able to think logically makes use of number, mass and exercising weight conservation and classify objects in terms of various characteristics. The last stage is when the child can think abstractly and test hypothesis as sanitary as be c oncerned with ideological thinking and problems (Atherton, 2005).The classroom offers different activities that promote the learning of this cognitive sills, as well as delivering information and knowledge in ways that argon cognitively assume for their age. This developmental profile report shows how the teacher supports the cognitive development of her students by the instructional approaches he/she uses in the classroom. Ms. Lisa is a 4th grade teacher, she is well aw ar that children argon still in the concrete stage and that they are more able to understand the lessons if it is presented using concrete examples and models that the children could touch and look or observe.For todays lesson, Miss Lisa is introducing the concept of compartmentalisations she has Amber, 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 describe what she sees and hence to arrange the balls in size. Amber seems to smile because she knows that her task is very simple, she first places the golf ball in the line, followed by the baseball, then the volleyball and the basketball. Ms.Lisa hobble Ambers work and is satisfied, she then asks the class why the balls are correctly lined 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 emplacement and the basketball on the other side. Stacy seeks the approval of her teacher as she asks whether her dissolve 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 fell speechless and Luis scratched his head and made inquisitive looks to his teacher. He approached the balls not really incontestable of what to do since all the balls looked the same. Then Ms. Lisa encouraged him to go and try break through his answer so he would know if it was right 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 using the same objects showed that the children have achieved the ability to classify objects, in the process the teacher have contri unlessed to the self-esteem and confidence 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 unsure but tried her best, and Ms. Lisa affirmed her answer. Ms. Lisa however spent 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). Learning and Teaching Piagets developmental theory. RetrievedNovember 12, 2007, from http//www.learningandteaching.info/learning/piaget.htm