CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR S.C. TEACHER CADET COURSE | EXPERIENCING EDUCATION, TENTH EDITION
Social Development -- Background Information
*Mandatory lesson
Essential Question: What does Erikson have to say about social development?
Activities:
Option 1:
1. Assign each group of 3 or 4 students a type of development- physical, cognitive, moral,
psychosocial, or language. That group will teach the important information regarding this
development after researching the topic. Students can use some of the suggested
activities listed below in option 3 or come up with their own lesson.
Option 2:
1. Introduce the different teaching methodologies as you present each of the different
developmental theories. For example, use a lecture to teach physical development, use
cooperative learning to teach cognitive development, use technology to teach moral
development, etc.
Option 3
1. As a hook for this lesson, give out the handout titled “Erikson: Timeline Task” and tell the
students to guess the chronological order of life using Erikson’s phases. Allow them to talk
with one another a 2F