Tea Sheanley Castillon BEED 1 ED 3
MODULE 5
PIAGET’S STAGES OF COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other generation have done – men who are creative, inventive and
discoverer.” - Jean Piaget
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of this Module, you should be able to: a. Describe Piaget’s stages in your own words.
b. Conduct a simple Piagetian task interview with children.
c. Match learning activities to the learners’ cognitive stage.
APPLICATION
1. This activity focuses on a story involving the interaction of family members. Choose the story
you want to use for this activity. It can be from the story you have read or a movie or
“telenovela” that you watched or plan to watch. Use the matrix below to relate the characters to
Piaget’s stages of cognitive development.
Title of Story/Movie: A Quiet Place
Write a brief summary of the story:
A Quiet Place is a movie about a family who live in silence to survive. There are mysteriously
blind creatures that hunt by sound and they have to avoid them without making noises. The movie
revolves around a father and a mother who struggle to survive and raise their children. The eldest,
the girl, is deaf, followed by a boy and the youngest who died after making a sound. Preparing for
the arrival of a newborn baby in a world without noise is difficult, and the father continues to pore
over newspaper articles and research, looking for a way to stop the creatures that kill at the
slightest sound. Regan, the daughter, is still dealing with her guilt over her brother’s death which
has resulted in an emotional wall between her and her father. Her father works on building a
cochlear implant for his daughter, but his efforts have failed which causes further issues between
father and daughter. One day, the father took his son fishing with him and takes him to a large
waterfall. Back at the house, the mother goes into labor while she is alone. She goes to the
basement and steps on an exposed nail on the stairs, dropping a glass picture frame. The noise
alerts a nearby creature who enters the house and begins looking for the source of the noise. She
flips a switch that changes the exterior lights to red, alerting everyone of danger. She goes to an
upstairs bathroom and struggles to remain silent during her contractions. The father and son return
from fishing and see the red lights. The son was instructed to set off fireworks to distract the
creatures. With the creatures temporarily distracted, the father hides his wife and newborn baby in
a nearly sound proof room. They place an oxygen mask onto the baby and put the newborn into a
sealed box to muffle its cries.
The father goes back outside to find his children. The mother falls asleep and then awakes
to find that the basement is filling with water from a broken pipe. Worse, a creature is in the
basement with her and the baby. She is able to collect her son and get out of the basement and
goes back to his husband’s radio room in the basement of the home. Regan returns to the farm and
also sees the red lights. She finds her brother, and the two of them climb to the top of the grain silo
to light a fire to alert their father of their whereabouts. The hatch door of the silo gives away and
Marcus falls into the silo. The silo door falls into grain with her brother, and Regan jumps into to
save her drowning brother. The two children climb onto the door to keep from sinking into the
grain. One of the creatures enters the silo and starts to attack the kids, but Regan’s malfunctioning
hearing device causes feedback that appears to hurt the creature and Regan. The kids escape from
the silo and find their father. When the three attempt to get back to the house, they are attacked by
a creature. Their father is wounded and bleeding, signs to his daughter that he loves her and always
has. Their father then proceeds to yell at the top of his lungs, leading the creature to attack and kill
him. The kids reunite with their mother in the basement of the house. The creature returns and
enters the basement. Regan realizes that the feedback sound made by her hearing device causes
the creature to feel pain after seeing some of her father’s notes in his office. She places the earpiece
next to a microphone, amplifying the feedback. The creature begins to convulse and exposes the
flesh underneath its armored head. The mother shoots the creature in its exposed head, killing it.
Now that they know how to kill the creatures, mother and daughter ready themselves to fight.
Character Description Piagetian Connection
Father Stage 4, because he thinks logically and has
the ability to come up with a solution to end
the brutality of the mysterious creatures.
Mother Stage 4, because she thought of a way to
combat the creatures
Children
1. Eldest child Stage 3, because he followed his father’s
instruction wholeheartedly. He knew about
their situation and obliged to his father’s
command.
2. Stage 3, because he followed his father’s
instruction wholeheartedly. He knew about
their situation and obliged to his father’s
command.
3. Third child Stage 1, because he’s more focus on his toy
rather than surviving. He’s still a child who
can’t think logically like an adult.
4. Youngest child Stage 1, he’s a newborn child. His cognitive
functions is still developing.
2. From the module on Piaget’s Stages of Cognitive Development, I learned that….
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, children go through four stages of mental
growth. Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operational, and formal operational are Piaget's
four phases of intellectual (or cognitive) development. Some children may go through the stages
at different ages, according to Piaget. At any given moment, some children may exhibit features
from more than one stage. However, he claimed that cognitive development always proceeds in
this order, that phases cannot be skipped, and that each stage is distinguished by greater
intellectual powers and a more complicated view of the world. Piaget's hypothesis, together with
the phases of cognitive development. Piaget's theory has several other main concepts. The
schemas, assimilation, accommodation and equilibrium.
