CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -At this stage, children typically: Expand vocabulary skills, allowing for expression of interests, thoughts and feelings-typically in great detail. Use language skills as a means of socialization. Learn to tell time. Begin to enjoy dramatic play and assume different roles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Myelination (the coating or covering of axons with myelin) begins around birth and is most rapid in the first 2 years but continues perhaps as late as 30 years of age. Synaptic development is a more complicated issue. Synapses are the connecting points between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another.

Detailed explanation-3: -Although myelination begins early in life and continues into adulthood, its production escalates notably during adolescence (25), thereby speeding information flow across distant regions and magnifying their impact (26).

Detailed explanation-4: -“Pruning involves removing the connections that are not used, and myelination takes the ones that are left and makes them faster, ” he says. McCarroll describes this as a trade-off – by pruning connections, we lose some flexibility in the brain, but the proficiency of signal transmission improves.