Question

Discuss the factors which contribute to growth and development. How can a school enhance physical and intellectual development of the students?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Five main factors identified in contributing to growth and developments at early childhood are nutrition, parent's behaviours, parenting, social and cultural practices, and environment.

Explanation:

There are three principles of growth and development: the cephalocaudal principle, the proximodistal principle, and the orthogenetic principle. These predictable patterns of growth and development allow us to predict how and when most children will develop certain characteristics.

Answer 2

The factors which contribute to growth and development are as follows -

• The growth and development are basically dependent on various hereditary factors, as well as environmental factors. This growth and development phase is very important for the children.
• The hereditary factors may include the gene carried traits,mainly about the physical growth. Also the other biological matters like hormone secretion, incidents of pregnancy, physical environment quality, race and sex aree also included in the physical growth.
• Now, the environmental factors are capable to affect both the physical and mental development of a child.
• For example wrt physical growth - economic background which is an environmental factor, decides the quality and quantity of nutrients, obtained by a child through the food materials, which later impacts the physical growth.
• For example wrt mental growth - the type of people in the surroundings is an external environmental factor but deeply impacts the formation of emotional traits, self esteem in a child. People with positive approach will create positive mental impacts and vice versa for negative people.
• Apart from this, motor skills, speech and language development skills are established over the passing age of a child.

School can enhance the physical and intellectual development of students in the following way -

• By arranging different types of activities which require good amount of physical efforts, will surely develop the physical aspects of the children.
• By arranging group works, brainstorming activities, problem solving activities, the intellectual property of the children can be accelerated towards development.