1. The General, And Very Broad Definition of Human Development is that it is the “change over time.”
  2. Students have a different learning styles at which they learn.
  3. Students learn material at different rates than others.
  4. There are different stages to development: Sensorimotor Period, Preoperational Period, The Concrete Operational Period, and The Formal Operational Period.
  5. Learning has to be an active process according to Piaget’s theory of Gentetic Epistemology.
  6. Development is lifelong according to Paul Blates’ idea.
  7. Students be motivated to learn if you give them the “choice” on something that interests them.
  8. Robert Selman’s Stages of Perspective Taking and Friendship which is separated into 5 stages.
  9. Paul Blates’ Three Specific developmental systems of influence: Normative Age – Graded Influences, Normative History – Graded Influences, and Non-Normative Influences.
  10. Psychologists divide various aspects of an individual to capture the elements that are influenced by development. The list often includes: physical, cognitive, social, emotional personal, moral, and spiritual.