Early childhood education must pay attention to all aspects of child development

Jakarta, NU Online

There are five aspects of early childhood development, namely motor skills, language development, social emotional development, moral development, and cognitive development.

Lecturer of the Early Childhood Education (PAUD) Indonesian Nahdlatul Ulama University (Unusia) Renti Aprisyah said that these aspects of early childhood development were not something that should be underestimated. These aspects must also be adjusted to the achievements to be assessed.

"So further, from the five aspects, the implementation of learning in PAUD must exist. So this is an ideal picture, and when we send our children to school, make sure that educators, teachers, or service providers understand the five aspects of developmental achievement," she said at the web seminar on Early Childhood Education: Then, Now, and Later, recently, adding that those who enrol their children should know the achievements of early childhood development.

When the community, especially teachers and parents, want to provide educational services to children, they must be clear about what aspects of developmental achievement are, because it is the basis of early childhood education.

She also emphasized that a teacher or everyone who was concerned with early childhood education must know these five aspects.

"So these five aspects must be adjusted to the stages of age, so for example, physical motor skills, you have to look at what it's like from zero to eight years old, it turns out to be a lot of your homework, the material will not run out," she explained.

According to her, the increase in weight shows physical development. If it grows, it can be seen from the development of the child's weight, it can be seen from the success in developing motor skills.

"So, for example, to put it simply, how do we look at the physical development of early childhood. We can see the physical development of early childhood directly with the growth of body shape,  for example a child increases from two kilograms in size to 10 kilograms." she said at a webinar held by NU Online and Unusia.

She said there were two motors namely fine and gross motor. "Examples of gross motor skills, children can run, walk, crawl, roll over, ride a bicycle, these are gross motor skills. For fine motor skills, they can draw, they can play puzzles, they can arrange blocks in levels, that is their fine motor skills," she explained.

Contributor: Malik Ibn Zaman

Editor: Sudarto Murtaufiq