Teach English in Liuhou Zhen - Hanzhong Shi

My recent long journey through university had my interests caught on many subjects and topics. One which I finally decided to major in was that of educational psychology. The human brain, physical body, our intrinsic and extrinsic environments that everyone is conditioned by strikes my interest on this specific subject. Keeping with topic chosen I would like to share my interest, views and maybe slightly biased opinions on child development. There are some basic concepts of child development that I have learned to date. Child development, both psychologically and physically is for me personally an extremely interesting area to learn from especially as a teacher, student of life and parent alike. One of the main reasons is that the information that one is exposed to never ceases to help one learn more about your own children's development. In the process you also acquire a better understanding of other children within your own social and working environment. From what I have benefited in this learning process are some of the main goals in learning more about all round child development. Some of the main points have been to learn how to describe the changes that typically occur in the developmental process within a child through the various ages. To be able to explain what causes these developmental changes and to learn how to predict the certain behaviour based on past and present characteristics as well. Finally, a point of utmost importance, to help improve the well-being of the child's development where one can contribute positive change if/when necessary. I have been fortunate enough to have been involved in teaching for ten years in various schools and I have witnessed the gradual development of students from year one through to year seven. I have been fortunate enough to have met up with some of these students in their more 'senior' years hold a more 'advanced' conversation than when our company departed five years previously. Although the development of my students and own children have been a continuous process, I have found it useful to be able divide this witnessed development into stages. Using their unique characteristics and skills combined with learned research and knowledge gained has shown that most individuals develop during each specific stage. I have been extremely privileged and honoured to bear witness to six stages of development from prenatal, to neonatal, to infancy and to early childhood with my own children, and middle childhood to adolescence with my students. Having been a physical education specialist for my first three years at my first teaching posts, I was able to bear witness to three years of physical development from boys and girls of the ages of six years to thirteen years. This facet of development that I saw entailed changes in the child's body such as weight and height. An important aspect of the physical development of the children is/was motor development. I have been able to bear witness to my own children's gradual physical development concerning body movement such as sitting, walking, and grasping. While there are definitely many more detailed factors that contribute to child development as a whole I can confidently say that I have and barely will scrape the tip of the iceberg with what I have shared in this task. From expert research involving scholarly articles and case studies for both past and present including multiple theories and ways of applying unique scenarios of child personality and as mentioned earlier – personal intrinsic/extrinsic environment, will ultimately influence one’s journey of child to adolescent development. If one is in the position to help contribute positively without passing on any negative conditioning to a child's overall development, it is in my opinion an obligation as an educator, parent or one who is around children to help build on this honourable piece of living art.