Child Development

Outline*

*Order is Subject to Change

1. Parenting

           ~Attitudes about 

~Decision to become parents

        ~ Parenting styles

2. Prenatal Development

~ Reproduction & Conception

~ Pregnancy

        -Fertility Options

~ Prenatal Development

~Birth

~Birth Defects

3. History, Theories, & Domains of Development

4. Newborns/First year

~ Physical Development

~Social Development

~ Emotional Development

~ Intellectual Development

5.  Toddlers (1-3 years old)

~ Physical Development

~Social Development

~ Emotional Development

~ Intellectual Development

6.   Preschool (4-6 years old)

~ Physical Development

~Social Development

~ Emotional Development

~ Intellectual Development

7. Child Abuse

8. Working with Children (throughout the semester)

~Developmentally Appropriate Practices

~Child Care Selection

~ Guidance

• Discipline
• Communication

~ Diversity

~ Professionalism

• Careers

State Scope & Sequence

•  Perspectives on Human Development

• Parenting        

• Expectations, responsibilities,
• Influences on individuals families and society
• Societal conditions that influence across the life span
• Cultural differences and similarities
• Legan and ethical impacts for current and emerging tech on fertility and family planning

• Research and theories in human development

• Analyze current emerging research about human growth and development
• Common practices and emerging research about influences of discipline on human growth and dev

• Understanding Development

• Physical emotional social moral and cognitive development
• interrelationship s ambong parts of development
• Biological process and social emotional and environmental factors - prenatal , birth and health of child and mother

• Nurturing Development

• Role of nurturance on growth and development
• Role of communication
• Roles of educational and family and social services support systems and resources
• Criteria for selection care and services for children and youth

• Challenges to development

• Heredity and environment
• Influences of social, economic and technological forces
• Influences of gender, ethnicity and culture on individual development
• Influences of life events
• geographic , political and global influences
• Effects of abuse and neglect on children and families and determine methods for prevention
• Criteria for selecting care and services for children and youth