This course provides a comprehensive understanding of cognitive, social, emotional, and spiritual development from early childhood through adolescence. Home School Educators learn Piaget's developmental stages, brain development research, and age-appropriate expectations for learning. The course explores how children learn differently at various stages and how to match teaching methods to developmental readiness. Topics include early literacy development, abstract reasoning emergence, adolescent identity formation, and the interplay between physical maturation and learning capacity. Home School Educators gain insight into why certain concepts are challenging at specific ages and learn to design instruction that works with, rather than against, natural developmental progressions.
