Gender Differences in Development

This article discusses the gender differences in the development of children, focusing on factors such as height, weight, and hormones. It also explores the role of teachers in promoting positive growth and building confidence in children.

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Gender Differences in Development...............................................................................................1
Second Language Acquisition and Reading....................................................................................3
An Interview with Year 6 Student...................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

Gender Differences in Development
Development in a person is related with overall change in personality includes height,
weight, understanding and skills. The process of development among all is not same and totally
depends over family biological traits along with gender. The main stage of growth is early
childhood from 5 to 12 years when children’s basically going to schools for primary education.
The main differences in growth among children’s is visible in their height and weight (What is
gender differences, 2020). Here, major role in growth of height and weight among children’s is
played by the biological traits of parents. It is simple to understand, where parents have good
physic and height then same will be ascertained by children in equal ratio. The one aspect that
has some point of contradiction with this concept is gender of a children. The role of gender is
also immense in the growth of a body but not similar as biological traits. It is visible in some
cases where siblings have height and weight differences where development of girl child is lower
as compared to boy. This clearly depicts that at some point hormones in body has impact over
the development process. Other than these two, there are many factors that contribute towards
the development of body like nutrition, diet, physical activities and environment. The effective
combination of all has great role in direction of attaining good rate of growth or development
where a person able to get personality which is effective in all terms.
Ella faced the situation of tallest student in her year 5 class. This happened due to the
quick growth during most of the current year (Santos, Roomi and Liñán, 2016). She is very
uncomfortable about the variations happening to her physique. To control or cope from the
feeling of embarrassment, she stopped running around the playground during the lunch time. She
is sitting with her coat on all time. This situation became worsen when during the changes in her
body, she was noticed about bleeding each month. The another instance that made her more
embarrass was her mother let down the hem of Ella’s school dress that looks awful. This was
done with the reason that only one year left before high school.
On the other hand, Thomas who is 11-year-old always been the smallest in every group.
The one whose named Harry is the best friend of Thomas from day-care and taller from him
from that time (Cabello and et. al. 2016). Thomas doesn’t care about this at that time but now
when he is in year 6, it impacts his thought process. Now, Harry is huge but still Thomas is
smallest in class. When Thomas joined the nine-year-old brother’s soccer team, his mother
cannot elite Thomas available in the gathering. Even the girls are taller than Thomas and to
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compensate the same situation he became loudmouth and joker. Now, he starts beginning to
wonder if he will ever grow taller.
On the basis of above defined experiences, it is clear that such instances are not typical
among 10 to 12 years’ child. They often face these type of conditions where they felt
embarrassing. This has the direct negative impact over their thinking process where not able to
polish personality in the manner as required at that point of age.
Here, to handle the situation and promote the equivalent growth, teachers must intervene
where they recognise and build the policies to control the stress associated with early stage of
puberty. All the teachers must assess the growth and factors that impact the same positively and
negatively. They also focus over determining instances when students feel embarrass due to the
process of development within their body at early stages of puberty. For ex., one feel
embarrasses because of tallest and another because of smallest. In this regard, teacher must
educate the students that biological changes in body is not in their hand also it depends over
genetics and they did not have any fault in attainment of a particular kind of body type. They
motivate them that these does not matter in future because where judgement is done on the basis
of skills and knowledge. Also, the teachers build the rule that no one will bully each other on
physical type and take part in all activities without hesitation. All these activities must have the
positive contribution upon the mental state of child where stress will be released and confidence
built that these are not the criterions to judge the effectiveness of life (Bleidorn and et. al. 2016).
It will be great to take some steps for mental growth of children’s like Ella and Thomas
because the pressure of being different from others in early stage has negative impact upon
overall development of a personality. In some cases, they simply grew out of their problems by
understanding that the one aspect where they weak can be easily compensated by the other points
of behaviour and personality characteristics. The steps which are important to take for removing
problems include dissemination of information about biological changes that are not in their
hand, create perception that these not define the future of a person, provide confidence to focus
over other important aspect that are playing important role in life for personal growth and
removal of inferiority feeling by focusing over actual determinants of growth.
It is clear from the overall description that any kind of issue related to the development
among children has negative impact upon overall personality. Here, gender is not the main factor
that impacts the process of development. The one which has major role in this part is genetics
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hold by parents. Gender only plays the supportive role because of the different hormones
carrying by a male and female body. It is the duty of teachers to intervene at early level and build
the provisions for removal of stress among children.
Second Language Acquisition and Reading
Acquisition of second language and its reading is not easy in early days even after taking the
classes or regular practicing. This has direct impact over the behaviour of an individual where
they prefer to confine themselves in their own limit They does not like to participate in social
activities due to the feeling of embarrassment. This will happen with everyone irrespective to the
age or gender. In this regard, it is important for the peers to understand the feeling of an
individual and provide support in direction of positive growth.
The same situation is present with a child named Morteza. He is very cautious and
uncomfortable during his first days at high school. He learned adequate English to have the
option to converse with different understudies in the play area, but is yet not familiar. He is
having specific issues in figuring out how to peruse and write in English, regardless of having
gone to EAL classes at his first school for just about two years (Elgort, Brysbaert, Stevens and
Van Assche, 2018). Morteza is a peaceful kid who likes to tune in and watch as opposed to
effectively take an interest during exercises, yet he is inspired to learn and be acknowledged in
his new school. His English instructor knows about Morteza's absence of capability in the new
dialect, however is eager to permit existence for him to conform to the study hall circumstance.
She abstains from asking him direct inquiries and, at whatever point potential, places him with a
gathering of capable boys who urge him to cooperate with them. Before the year's over, Morteza
is considerably more certain, both as an English speaker and as an individual from the class. He
presently takes an interest all the more completely in class exercises, has grown dear fellowships
with two different boys and is once in a while watched staring off into space or pulling back
from class exercises. He obtains consistently from the school library and has a talking part in a
play being set up for the finish of-year show.
Here, the different problems faced by Morteza includes inability to communicate with
others due to lack of English speaking, ineffective concentration over academic classes or
lessons, not able to make friends due to difference of opinions and language understanding and
non-meeting up of cultural requirements as needed to adhere in class during the period of lessons
(Halwani, 2017). These type of issues will be faced by every student who move to the new
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country and enrolled in a new school system with an unfamiliar language and culture. These are
of generally three types as identified from the case of Morteza too like linguistic, academic and
cultural. The step adopted by the teacher in case of handling Morteza situation is quite
significant. This would be the reason that able to build the confidence where everything is going
good in last. Here, the one thing can be done as an additional effort by the teacher that take
private sessions with Morteza and motivate to act confident with the knowledge what actually
have at the time.
In case, the person who born in English country but not belongs from it actually, then
does not face the issues as faced by Morteza. This is so because language and culture is adopted
by the person from the environment and surroundings. So, this simultaneously provides the
support to be comfortable within academics where similar nature of environment exists.
It is clear from the above description that major issues are faces by students to cope with
new culture in new country. The teachers must focus over those students towards improving their
confidence and understanding behaviour from their gestures (Saville-Troike and Barto, 2016).
This not only help to get knowledge about features but aid in development of strategies where
they do not feel embarrass in class.
An Interview with Year 6 Student
Interviewing is the best technique to get the information about personal interest and
behaviour of a person. This will provide the opportunity to grab the level of confidence and other
associated characteristics with personality. The benefit of this exercise will help in development
of better strategies that adequately meet the personal requirements of a person.
Here, interview is done with year student named Jay. It is ascertained from the interviewed
information that Jay is good in project and have personal interest in that specific area. There is
specific reason behind this ability of Jay that family environment. The elder brother is good in
projects and parents have the habit of reading newspaper. Jay did not like the maths subject. The
main reason behind is not able to understand and feel stressed (Larkin and Jorgensen, 2016).
The above information clearly depicts about the self-efficacy of Jay. Jay is good in project
because get inspired from the elder brother and also get the habit of research and reading from
parents. It means Jay is good in ascertaining the characteristic through observations. On the other
hand, maths is technical subject that requires concentration and technical knowledge that cannot
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ascertained from the family routines observations. This would be the reason that Jay is bad in
Maths and not even get inspired from his younger sister.
The information ascertained related to Jay clearly provide the sign of psychological
feedback where he learns or grab the things from the happenings or habits exist in surrounding.
The one thing which is must to fulfil this criterion is presence of informative and interesting
aspects that does not have no link with technical knowledge. This would be the reason that Jay
does not like maths (Keddie, 2016). The self-esteem of Jay definitely affected negatively due to
the presence of such beliefs because he developed the feeling of hate and stress towards subject
of maths where not able to generate the interest of learning. In this regard, classroom teachers
must use the innovative and creative ways of teaching that can grab the attention of Jay’s
personality characteristics. Also, they have to motivate regularly about the learning of new
aspects. This will must provide positive impact over the self-esteem of Jay where he pursues the
learning of topics which in which he is not good in actual.
It is clear from the above information that interview is the best method to gain personal
information about any person. Individuals always learn fast from the observation of aspects
happens in surrounding. The teacher has the prime role regarding the improvement of student’s
self-esteem in classroom (Othman et. al. 2016).
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