Jean Piaget Development Stages. Jean piaget was a psychologist who focused on child development. These stages help teachers assess and best serve students in the classroom.
Piaget developed his theories by watching children and making notes about their progress. Piaget s four stages of. While most people get quite far in their stages of development some are not able to reach full cognitive or moral maturity.
That is if we can discern that a student is significantly over or under developed with regard to their particular phase of development we can seek out support for that child.
According to jean piaget not everyone reaches optimal cognitive and moral development. We explain each of the four stages and explore strategies based on piaget s theory for. It is possible to not reach the final stage in either of his stages of development. Piaget s four stages of.