How Do You Teach Early Childhood Development?
Early childhood development is the time of the most important development in children’s lives. Children go through social, physical, intellectual (cognitive), creative and emotional development. Teaching early childhood development to caregivers, teachers and parents is important, because without proper nurturing, interaction and stimulus a child can experience severe developmental delays that prevent future success. Teach the first of the five components, physical development. Explain the major components of physical development, including fine and gross motor skill development. Explain that fine motor skills allow children to write, fasten clothing and hold small objects. Without fine motor skills, children may be unable to feed themselves, write legibly, dress themselves or turn the pages of a book or magazine. Gross motor skills use the larger body muscles and allow children to walk, sit upright, throw things and lift things. Without gross motor skills, children will be limited in
