1. Parent Café Morning Edition
October 2, 2013
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.

2. Welcome Goals for Today 1.Welcome and Introductions 2. Announcements
3. Ice Breaker
4. Presentation and Discussion

3. Marjola Roshi, MA, CAGS School Psychologist
Child Development
Marjola Roshi, MA, CAGS
School Psychologist

4. Agenda Developmental Tasks Developmental Lag Indicators
Suggested Behaviors for Effective Parenting
Physical Development Characteristics-Guide
Intellectual Development Characteristics-Guide
Social Development Characteristics-Guide
Emotional Development Characteristics-Guide
Resource List

5. Developmental Tasks Educational Implications
Piaget’s theory : The content of instruction needs to be consistent with the developmental level of the learner.
§ Provide concrete props and visual aids, such as models and/or time line
§ Use familiar examples to facilitate learning more complex ideas, such as story problems in math.
§ Allow opportunities to classify and group information with increasing complexity; use outlines and hierarchies to facilitate assimilating new information with previous knowledge.
§ Present problems that require logical analytic thinking; the use of tools such as "brain teasers" is encouraged.

6. Developmental Lag Indicators
A child may present with a serious discrepancy within his or her developmental profile, yet such gaps may dissipate with time

7. Developmental Lag Indicators

8. Tips for Effective Parenting
Seek to understand the CURRENT norm
Academic and social expectations are different
Self-reflect on your own possible bias
Ask your child-Use curiosity rather than a guidance approach to get them to share
Seek consultations with available resources such as school psychologist and guidance counselor when in doubt

9. Intellectual Development: Guide to Effective Parenting
One’s abilities do not develop evenly
Allow for the child to present his strengths
Address the child’s weakness kindly and provide opportunities for them to enhance in these cognitive areas (e.g. use of blocks, puzzles etc…)
Ignore:
Temporary stuttering

10. Social Development Characteristics: Guide to Effective Parenting
Balance: Be aware of the child’s social circle
Guide them to learn principals of friendships, sharing and loosing.
Acceptance:
Child may identify well with adults outside the family

11. Emotional Development Guide to Effective Parenting
One’s abilities do not develop evenly
Be kind, but honest
Use an objective approach to problem solving
Restate the problem
Provide a clear approach to a tangible solution
Provide a timeline
Seek to enhance their independence in specific tasks or presented issues gradually

12. Resources Resource List
Green, Ross. (2005). The explosive child. A new approach for understanding and parenting easily frustrated, chronically inflexible children
 Child Development Guide (n.d.) Retrieved from
Garcia, W. Michelle. (2011). Socially Curious and Curiously Social.
Social Thinking Curriculum

13. Questions?
Thank You