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Principles and Dimensions of Development for REET Level 1
Principles of development explain how children grow: development is continuous, broadly sequential, head-to-foot and centre-to-periphery in motor planning, general-to-specific, individually variable, integrated, cumulative and lifelong. Dimensions of development explain what grows: physical or motor, cognitive, language, social, emotional and moral. A REET Level 1 teacher for Classes 1 to 5 plans lessons by linking these principles with dimensions and choosing tasks suited to the child's stage and present capacity.
Key points
- Development is continuous, sequential, individually variable, integrated, and lifelong across primary classes.
- Cephalocaudal head-to-foot and proximodistal centre-out trends sequence motor planning in Class I to V.
- Heredity and environment together shape every classroom outcome; neither acts alone in primary years.
- Six dimensions matter for primary teachers: physical, cognitive, language, social, emotional, moral.
- Lessons should target multiple dimensions at once via integrated tasks like reading aloud.
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Principles of development explain how children grow: development is continuous, broadly sequential, head-to-foot and centre-to-periphery in motor planning, general-to-specific, individually variable, integrated, cumulative and lifelong. Dimensions of development explain what grows: physical or motor, cognitive, language, social, emotional and moral. A REET Level 1 teacher for Classes 1 to 5 plans lessons by linking these...