Read VLS (2013) Cognitive Development

Watch the video Preschools: Cognitive Development which can be found on BMCC’s library in the Academic Online Video: Premium video database, follow there directions and/ or these video instructions to locate the video. I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.

Read Reich-Shapiro (2018)  on Piaget.

Watch the video below on Piaget’s Stage Theory of Cognitive Development.  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.

Read Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory

Watch the video below on Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory of Development.  I suggest completing this handout as you watch the video.

After reading and watching the video, answer the questions below:

1. What is cognitive development?
2. Who are 2 theorists often associated with early childhood cognitive development?
   1. What does each theorist believe?
   2. How are the theorist’s beliefs similar? How are they different?
3. How do we observe or understand a child’s cognitive development?
4. How does language and literacy connect to cognitive development?
5. How does play connect to cognitive development?
6. How can teachers support young children’s cognitive development?

Review the Cognitive Skills and Processes Power Point.  Here is the video that accompanies the Power Point

Read Cognitive Milestones

Watch the videos below.  For each video answer the following questions:

1. What cognitive skills and process does the child demonstrate? How?
2. What cognitive milestones foes the child demonstrate? How?
3. What Piagetian stage of cognitive is the child/ children in? How does the child/ren’s behavior demonstrate they are in that stage?
4. What evidence of Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory do you see? How?

Video #1 (4 year olds) stop at 2:00 minute mark

Video #2: (~3-4 year olds)

Video #3: (~15 months)