Developmental Carachteristics of Preschoolers

In a previous post, I talked about the importance of meeting individual needs of our students, teaching them bearing in mind the individual differences between them. This differences can be caused by different factors, as their social and familiar background and their own personality.

But today I want to talk about a factor related to the developmental characteristics of our children, which will be different among them, depending on their age and their birth order. For this reason, as teachers, we have to know what can we expect from our children depending on their developmental stage. I have done a table with some characteristics that I found very important to keep in mind as English teachers:

Of course there are more developmental characteristics that I suggest you to check, because it could be very useful for you.

As a last idea, I would like to say that we mustn’t underestimate children’s capacities. Sometimes we don’t ask them some task thinking that they won’t be able to do it. But you would be surprised of the things they can actually do…