Ch. 3 Personal and Social Development Learning log

WHAT
In class we learned that Social Development has to do with; personality-behavior, temperament-emotions-reactions. These will effect our classroom. We also talked about Sense of Self which is the way that we see ourselves. Past experiences form our sense of self. Developmental change is another subject we went over. The three different stages of development are; childhood, early adolescence, and adolescence. In the childhood stage we are fairly optimistic about ourselves. Early adolescence we are fairly negative about ourselves. In adolescence our self image levels off. We learned Erikson's eight stages of development: 1. Bun- Trust vs. Mistrust, 2. Shoe- (Autonomy vs. shame, 3. Tree- Initiative vs. guilt, 4. Door- Industry vs. inferiority, 5. Hive- Identity vs. Role confusion, 6. Sticks- Intimacy vs. Isolation, 7. Heaven- Generativity vs. stagnation, and 8. Gate- Integrity vs. despair. We also learned about Kohlberg's Moral Development his three stages are: 1. Preconventional- Behave because we don't want to get punished/exchange of a favor. 2. Conventional- Good recognition, Law and order/ a rule is a rule. 3. Postconventional- Social contract/ Universal Ethical principle. We also talked about emotional Intelligence which is understanding when emotions are appropriate. We need a balance between our emotional mind and our rational mind.

SO WHAT
Personality behavior is vital for us to know because the personality of the students is going to effect the classroom severely in a negative or positive way. Sense of self is going to be how our students view themselves differently. The stage of development of ones self that our students will be in is the Childhood stage. Therefore, our students for the most part will feel optimistic about themselves. Out of the eight Erikson's stages most of our students will be in the Industry vs. Inferiority which means that we need to give our students a lot of praise and rewards. They don't need negative reinforcement and the don't need to always hear what they did wrong and what they need to change. In Kohlberg's moral development our students will probably be in the preconventional and conventional stages. We need to recognize that there is different levels of emotional development and some students will be able to know how to control their emotions with no problem. Others may not and that is where we come in.

NOW WHAT
I took in a lot while listening to this lesson and I was thinking as we went through these things as a class of how to use and apply them to my future classes. In my classroom I know I am going to have many students with different personalities and I need to have a plan on how to handle each one of them. As a teacher I want to help build my students sense of self confidence up, not bring it down. Therefore, I am going to reward, give positive feedback when appropriate, and never criticize their ideas and views. This will be hard because most of us react differently when we hear someone say the wrong answer, we automatically want to say no and snap back with the right answer. This also goes along with Industry vs. Inferiority which is the Erikson's stage they will most likely be at. Since our students will either be at the Preconventional and conventional stage we will need to teach them with what stage they are not at. For example if a student is at the Preconventional level (behaves because afraid of being punished, exchange for a favor) we need to slowly teach them about the conventional stage (Good recognition, law and order, a rule is a rule.) This will help them develop to that next stage. We also need to teach our students how to manage, control, and use certain emotions. This will help our students who may be struggling with this understand how to accomplish that. Learning when emotions are appropriate is a great life skill and will help them throughout their whole lives.