REET Level 1 study notes
Factors affecting Development — role of family and school (REET Level 1, Classes I–V)
The development of a primary-school child is shaped by many interacting factors, but the REET Level 1 syllabus focuses especially on family and school. Family factors include parenting style, socio-economic status, parental literacy and participation, birth order, family size, family stability, and home language; Baumrind described four parenting styles, with authoritative parenting as the most supportive for primary classroom learning. School factors include teacher-student relationship, peer group, classroom climate, infrastructure, attendance, school-home communication, and mid-day meal nutrition support. Biological factors such as heredity, nutrition, and health provide a backdrop, while Bronfenbrenner's model places all these influences in nested layers around the child.
Key points
- REET Level 1 lists family and school as the two named factors a primary teacher must read in every Class I-V learner.
- Baumrind's authoritative parenting style — warmth combined with reasonable rules and reasoning — supports primary classroom learning best.
- School factors include teacher-student relationship, peer group, classroom climate, infrastructure, attendance and mid-day meal nutrition support.
- Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model nests microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem around the child.
- A warm, predictable classroom can compensate for a home with low stimulation; biological factors set a backdrop, never destiny.
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The development of a primary-school child is shaped by many interacting factors, but the REET Level 1 syllabus focuses especially on family and school. Family factors include parenting style, socio-economic status, parental literacy and participation, birth order, family size, family stability, and home language; Baumrind described four parenting styles, with authoritative parenting as the most supportive for primary...