How Teachers Should Determine or Regulate Their Lesson Activities

Childhood period is a very different time period because this period has some, complex basements and lots of people generally cannot give meaning to this period. Their cognition levels are changing to their age periods and determine learning basements. For example, Piaget divided into four stages in children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete and formal according to cognition or other opinions are cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and language development, fine motor skills, gross motor skills developments. These developments give clues for children’ learning steps and teachers are inspired from these steps while determining their lesson plans because every age period has different cognition level and ability.

First year and fourth year children in primary school are differentiated from each other. Since their attention span, self-awareness, abstract thinking, interests, knowledge of the world are certain differences. First year students have limited attention span which is 20-25 minutes so they cannot concentrate to their lesson for 40 minutes. Their interests depend on visuals and colorful materials. They are more egocentric and they face some problems in the classroom and they are not aware of school discipline system and their behaviors. For example, first year children always want to go the toilet because when they are bored or lose attention to the class in 40 minutes. Time management is so important for this year. They always think games. Teacher education’ style should be game and visual centered learning strategy. They are impatient.  Teacher should increase their attention span with their interests. On the other hand, fourth year students are more aware their situation, rules and their interests. They are still children but more mature than first class student. They can keep their concentration level in 40 minutes. Teachers should keep communication channels and explain every detail about rules, lesson plan or schedule to them because they always want to feel precious and have a voice in the classroom. Their cognition level can separate abstract and concentrate concepts so teachers can use these terms in their lesson plan such as idioms. They are able to think about their problems and produce solutions to their problems. Teachers should be the facilitator in this period and their lesson plan needs to contain student centered practices.

In conclusion, teachers should be aware of the age factor of students because every age period has special characteristics. When teachers are aware of students’ age, interests, attention span, knowledge world, their students will be more active and successful in their class. Students feel precious not to robotlike and teacher will be more facilitator and effective with the  help of  these clues.