E1 Describe the development of children in a selected age range and in TWO areas of development. The age group I have selected to describe the social emotional and cognitive development from 3 to 7 years old. In this age group there are many drastic changes from a child willingly leaving their parent to socialise with other children through to their first friendship emerging and valuing it. From the age of 3-4 most children are happy to leave their primary carers to go to school and socialise with staff and other children. Children start to develop their first real...
give them plenty of opportunities to complete Bandura's cognitive elements. At a nursery, key workers grab the child's attention with an activity e.g. clay modelling. They then show the child how to do it, and then let them try it themselves while giving them praise.

Primary schools can also use these elements of Bandura's by demonstrating to the children while they are sitting on the carpet, repeating so that they memorise it and the give the children to practice to the skill themselves. The members of staff then give the children praise for their hard work and effort.