Need of understanding child development in the classroom

1. Need of understanding child development in the
classroom
Presented By-
Anchal Kumari Singh

2. Introduction
As a teacher trainee, when you are engaged in the teaching-
learning activity if you understand the students interests and
needs you can make your teaching according to their needs,
they will be interested in learning and consider you as a good
teacher. How do you understand the attitudes, interests,
need and aptitudes of the students?
Psychology helps you to understand the mental activities,
experiences and behaviour of the conscious level, it also
deals with the experience of sub-conscious and unconscious
levels of human mind.

3. Purpose & Principles of Teaching
A teacher’s most typical role is that of instructional expert. In that role, the
teacher is responsible for planning activities to facilitate learning.
The teacher is responsible for guiding students in learning activities and
evaluating them. Beyond these instructional responsibilities, a teacher also
takes on the role of manager.
A teacher needs to bring order and structure to the environment to facilitate
the learning process.

4. Role of the school in the social development &
social needs of the adolescence
The function of the school has considerably changed in the rapidly changing
civilization. The traditional function of imparting the basic skills of the three R’s is
now no longer considered to be adequate to meet the present challenge.
The present-day school has also to perform some of the functions of the family. It
may develop certain desirable social habits.
It is through co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that the task of social
development can be achieved more successfully.
It is only the sympathetic understanding and sincere desire of the teacher to act
positively in an unprejudicial manner that can help.

5. Role of the teacher in social development
A teacher can play a vital role in the social development of adolescent under his charge. He
exerts a great influence upon the development of the personality of the adolescent.
Following are the important suggestions for the social development of the adolescent-
 Adolescent may be taken from time to time to public places like museums, courts and
places of historical importance etc to observe social interaction
 People engaged in different economic activities or vacations may be invited to school for
giving a description of what they do and how useful their work is to the nation. This will
enable the adolescent to be acquainted with those around them in the society

6. Continued…..
Adolescent should be acquainted with the social
events like the celebration of the birthdays of leaders
The school programme should be full of numerous co-
curriculum and curricular activities in which
adolescent meet, co-operate and learn from each
others personality
Stories depicting self-sacrifices made by great men for
the cause of general good may be told to adolescents
so that they are motivated to rise above petty gains
and work for the betterment of the humanity

7. Role of the school and the teacher in satisfying
the needs of the emotional development
Following are the ways for meeting the needs of the adolescent -
 Providing equal treatment irrespective of consideration of wealth, status,
or gender of the adolescents
 Using dynamic and progressive methods of teaching-learning
 Love and affection as the part of teacher to be made the basic of work
 Balanced emotional behaviour of the teacher himself

8. Continued…..
 Creative and democratic classroom and school discipline
 Healthy physical conditions in the school
 Due regard to individual differences of the adolescents
 Adequate provision for a variety of co-curricular activities
 Provision of sex education
 Rich and varied curricular

9. Role of the teacher in Moral development
It has been stressed again and again that nothing can be more helpful in
moulding the adolescent's moral behaviour than the teachers own conduct.
A teacher must set a high standard of moral behaviour before the
adolescent.

10. Need of understanding child development in the
classroom
“Every child is a different kind of flower and all together make this world a
beautiful garden”
As a teacher when we teach in the classroom then we should understand
children’s problem because parents and teachers are brain builders. Our
interactions with children shape their brains. We can raise children to care
when we raise them with care.
When children experience frequent punishment, they carry the shame,
anger and aggression into their Adulthood. Punishment perpetuated
violence and discontent in society.