Child Development Report: Approaches, Professionals, and Critique

This report delves into child development, emphasizing child-centered approaches and their significance in shaping young individuals' experiences in sports and physical education. It highlights the importance of focusing on children and young people as learners to develop their physical and sporting skills. The report discusses various professionals, including generic teachers, PE specialists, and community coaches, and their influence on a child's learning cycle. It outlines different approaches and frameworks for assessing a child's development, encompassing physical, cognitive, and social-emotional domains. Furthermore, the report analyzes the roles of generic professionals, secondary specialists, and community coaches, evaluating their contributions to child development. The analysis section critiques the implementation of child-centered approaches and the challenges encountered in the learning cycle, emphasizing the need for positive support from professionals to ensure effective physical and educational development.

CHILD
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
2 Child centered approaches ...........................................................................................................3
3 Approaches / framework adopted A child's development ...........................................................5
4 Links with professionals ..............................................................................................................6
6 Conclusion Summaries ................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Young Person's experience of learning with in sport and physical education should be
shaped by their interaction with professionals. Present report describes about child centric
approaches. In addition to that importance to give focus on the children and young people as
learners for developing their sports and physical skills have been mentioned in the report. In
addition to that different professionals who comes in the contact of child and other young
persons and their influences on learning cycle of child has been mentioned. Moreover, flaws that
have been observed while imparting learning to the child have also been described in the report.
2 CHILD CENTERED APPROACHES
According to the …......... focus can be paid on children and young people and they can
be motivated for developing their sporting and physical skills. Knowledge can be imparted to the
individual inside and outside the educational system. Sport pedagogy renders an effective
framework for the individual who holds desire for engaging in the sport. It is required that for
being a coach, practical guidance should be provided to the individuals. Sport pedagogy focuses
on learning with practical experiences (Hollingworth, 2015). Teachers and coaches are required
to encourage children and young individuals. Structured and strategic approach is adopted for
imparting physical and sporting skills to child and it helps in making their overall development
in an effective manner.
Other than this, sport pedagogy offers invaluable practical guidance and theoretical
learning for the teachers and it helps them in providing practical sports education for their
students. Encouragement and inspirations can be given to individuals that can help them in
engaging in the sports activity (Greenfield and Cocking, 2014). It is vital that children should
have desire for getting engaged in development activities. In addition to that, it is important that
the coaches and trainers should take initiatives for adopting better and effective learning methods
so that better theoretical and practical learning can be provided to the learners.
Child centered approaches are designed on the basis of learning needs and methods of
preferences shown by child for acquiring better and effective learning. It is a type of application
that is being used for child development and it helps children in making their own choices and
developing their own ideas for promoting learning and communication (Ansell, 2016). It is
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imperative to consider that every child is special and so that it is required that specific learning
should be provided. It will help for rendering better education and physical skills should be
acquired by the learner (Schore, 2015).
Coaches and trainers make efforts in developing skill and capability in the children. It
aids them in getting familiar with each other and due to that effectual competencies and
capabilities are acquired by children. Moreover, there are some theories of child development
and these theories gives guidelines about learning stages of child. Erik Eriksonm proposed a
child development theory and according to this theory human growth is encompassed throughout
the life-cycle of an individual (McGhee and Frank, 2014). Each stage that is linked with the
development of child needs to pass through a conflicting stage and it is required that person
should take steps for overcoming through the conflict stages. Similarly, Albert Bandura's social
learning theory proposes that new behavior are learn by child by observing other people and
extrinsic and intrinsic reinforcement gives impact on the overall learning cycle of the child.
New competence and capabilities are acquired by the child by observing other people and
it helps them in making their overall development. In addition to that Social child development
theory states that people associated with a child gives influence on the learning that is being
acquired by the child. Child and adolescent individual learns by observing other people who
comes in their contacts (Pherson, 2015).
It is required that coaches, trainers and other individuals that are associated with the child
should make efforts for encouraging them to get engage in sports activities. Benefits of involving
in physical and educational activities can be told to child so that they get influenced and take part
in enthusiastic manner in different sports activities. Other than that focus needs to be given on
the young people and children as learners. It will help them for getting engage in developing
their physical and sporting skills (Lantolf, Thorne and Poehner, 2015). In addition to that it is
required that required knowledge should be imparted to child inside and outside the education
system and it will help them to become more capable and competent for engaging in different
types of sports and other physical activities. In addition to that it is also required that proper and
conductive learning environment should be provided to the child so that their learning should
take place in better and conductive environment.
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3 APPROACHES / FRAMEWORK ADOPTED A CHILD'S
DEVELOPMENT
It is essential that development of child should be viewed and mapped so that proper
measures can be taken for identifying and assessing weak performing areas. There are various
methods which are available and can be used for mapping development of a child. It is vital that
strategic and structured approaches should be adopted for using the approaches that could be
used for mapping development of child (Csikszentmihalyi and Rathunde, 2014). Child learning
can be measured in four basic areas and it includes:-
Physical development and health :- Sports activities help the child in getting engaged in
various physical activities. Development of child is ensured through this approach. flexibility and
fitness development of child is also done. Other than this, it also helps in making sensory and
motor development of child and nutrition. sensory growth of child is ensured through this.
Physical growth of child can be measured and it will help in mapping the overall development of
child through the learning which has been imparted to them.
General learning competencies :- Memory, attention, cognitive skills and problem solving
skills of the child improves for assessing mental development of child through learning which is
provided to them. When learning are provided to the child than it helps them in making
significant improvements in their existing skills and capabilities (Kolb, 2014). Desire of child for
acquiring better knowledge enhances and they take initiatives for developing better skills and
competencies in themselves.
Cognitive development :- Getting engaged in sports and educational activities lead towards
making improvements in logical and reasoning skills of the child. Memory power and problem
solving skills of child can be assessed and it will aid in making positive and effective
improvements in learning skills of the child Logical and problem solving skills of the child
(Knowles, Holton and Swanson, 2014)mproves and it aids them in solving complex and critical
problems that are being faced by them.
Social and Emotional development of child :- Improvements are done in the social and
emotional areas and it can be assessed for identifying development of child. Learning is a critical
and complex process and it requires attention from coaches and trainers so that better
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development and learning of child can be ensured (Smith, Cowie and Blades, 2015). Child learns
to make interaction with other society people and it helps them for observing people and learn
from them. Other than this better observation of other people is made and it supports for gaining
new expertise. Moreover
All the four major domains can be assessed for measuring and mapping development of child. It
will help for identifying and assessing weak performing areas and on the basis of that measures
can be taken for making positive improvements in existing flaws that are found in learning of
child (Peters, 2015).
4 LINKS WITH PROFESSIONALS
There are many people who come in the contact of child and due to that influence is
observed on the child's philosophy. Professionals play a significant role in teaching better and
effective practical skills to the individuals that are engaged with the learning process. It is
assertive that positive participation of all people should be involved so that practical learning
with better experience should be provided to the individual
(a) Generic :- Professionals that offer specific learning to child and young individuals comes in
the category of generic. They help in shaping the cognitive and reasoning skills of the child and
they also helps for imparting physical education and sports skills to the employees. In addition to
that overall development of child is ensured by generic interactions made by child with generic
aids in shaping and developing their thought process (Bishop, 2014). Generic professionals helps
in developing the physical attributes of child including flexibility and body movement. Other
than this they also try their efforts for imparting better and effective competencies and
capabilities to the employees. A child comes in the contact of Generic and it gives influence on
the overall learning process of the child.
(b) Secondary specialist :- They also play a significant role in developing cognitive and
physical abilities of child and overall development of child is also ensured by them. Secondary
specialist lacks deep knowledge about a specific area of study and they posses only basic
knowledge about a specific subject. They provide assistance to children in gaining better and
effective skills (Keenan, Evans and Crowley, 2016). They also provide support to the
professionals so that they can impart better theoretical and practical skills to children and young
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individuals. When a child or young individual comes in the contact of secondary specialist than
due to that some specific set of skills and competencies are acquired by the child. Secondary
specialist posses specific knowledge about a subject and it helps them to render better learning to
the students that comes in their contact.
(c) Community coaches- proper guideline to children and young learners is provided and it
helps them in acquiring practical skills. It is assertive that community coaches should play their
roles in responsible manner so that better learning should be provided to individuals. Moreover,
they also provide better understanding to the children and encouragement is also provided.
Overall learning and development of child is ensured and it helps for imparting better and
effective learning to the child (Egan, 2013). Significant and prominent role is played by
community coaches in making development of child be imparting necessary skills and
capabilities to the children. Positive development of child is ensured by them and it is vital that
some basic qualification and skills should be posses by community coaches so that they can
work for providing better development to the child.
All the individuals that are associated with making development of child in Physical
development and Sports. All offer different types of things to the child and their manner of
imparting skills also differ from each other. They support the development of child but their
expertise level differ from each other. Moreover, their knowledge also differ from each other and
due to that their ways of imparting skills to the child also differ from each other.
5 Analysis / Critique
It is required that child centric approach should be used young individuals should be used
for enhancing their experience of learning within sports and physical sports. Children and young
individual acquire learning by observing others that includes professionals. Generic teachers, PE
specialist and community sports teachers make efforts for imparting learning to the individuals
and they give influences on the overall learning that is acquired by the child.
Their support is essential so that necessary physical development of the child can be
ensured and it will help them to acquire better physical education and sports learning. Positive
support of generic teachers, specialist and community coaches is essential for ensuring
development of child (Newman and Newman, 2014). However, it has been observed that it has
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not been received and due to that difficulties and challenges are faced in the learning cycle of the
child.
If conductive and better working environment should not be provided to the child than
due to that overall growth and learning of the child gets influenced. It is vital that all the
individual associated with the development of child should posses necessary expertise and
experience so that they can provide better and effective learning to the child (Lantolf, Thorne
and Poehner, 2015). If proper competence and capabilities should not be posses by the child than
due to that troubles will be faced in imparting required capabilities and competence to the child.
Proper resources are also not available and due to that also problems are faced by teachers,
specialist and coaches. Lack of professionals is also creating problems and it is vital that
sufficient number of professionals should be available.
6 CONCLUSION SUMMARIES
Summing up the present report it can be concluded that child centric approaches supports
for rendering better learning to the individuals. Generic teachers, secondary specialist and
community coaches play a significant role in imparting necessary physical educational and sports
education to the employees. It is vital that all the individuals who influences the behavior and
learning process of young individuals should play their role properly. It will help them in
acquiring better skills and capabilities through practical and theoretical knowledge. Moreover,
these professionals should also take initiatives for making continuous improvements in their
existing learning process so that they can provide better learning to the employees. It is vital that
encouragement should be given to children and young professionals so that they take positive
initiatives for getting engaged in sports and other physical education activities.
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