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Module II Stages (Adolescence)
Module II Stages (Adolescence)
Module II Stages (Adolescence)
Reference :
Borabo, Heidi Grace L., Corpuz, Brenda B., Lucas, Ma. Rita D., and Lucido, Paz I.(2010). Child and Adolescent
Development Looking at Learners at Different Stages. Lorimar Publishing, Inc., Quezon City
1. Prenatal Stage
In early childhood, we skipped, played, and ran all day long, never in our lives so
busy, busy becoming something we had not quite grasped yet. Who knew our thoughts,
which worked up into small mythologies all our own. Our thoughts and images and
drawings took wings. The blossoms of our heart, no wind could touch. Our small world
widened as we discovered new refuges and new people.
We wanted our parents to understand us and hoped they would give up the
privilege of understanding them. We wanted to fly but found that first we had to learn to
stand and walk and climb and dance. In our most pimply and awkward moments we
became acquainted with sex. We played furiously at adult games but were confined to a
society of our own peers. Our generation was the fragile cable by which the best and the
worst of our parents' generation was transmitted to the present. In the end, there were two
but lasting bequests our parents could leave us, one being roots, the other wings.
6. Early Adulthood (19-29 years)
Early adulthood is a time for work and a time for love, sometimes leaving little time
for anything else. We still ask ourselves who we are and wonder if it isn't enough just to be.
Our dreams continue and our thoughts are bold but at some point we become more
pragmatic. Sex and love are powerful passions in our lives. And we possibly will never
know the love of our parents until we became parents ourselves.
In each stage of development a certain task or tasks are expected of every individual.
- Robert Havighurst defines developmental task as one that "arises at a certain period
in our life, the successful achievement of which leads to happiness and success with
later tasks while failure leads to unhappiness, social disapproval, and difficulty with
later tasks.
APPLICATION
1. Why does teacher’s success depends greatly upon his insights into the various factors
basic to growth and development and his knowledge of the developmental characteristics
of the learner?
2. Define developmental tasks in your own words. State for yourself how these
developmental tasks affect your role as a facilitator of learning.
REFLECTION
As a manager and facilitator of the learning situation/s with reference to the things
you learned about developmental tasks, make a reflection on how you can help your
students tap their unique capabilities and capacities in their struggle for everyday life in
school.