Identify and describe key elements that contribute to gender role development and, having examined your own schemas about gender identity (stereotypes, expectations), respond effectively to children’s gender-associated needs and problems.

Gender sexuality and sexual orientation

Identify and describe key elements that contribute to gender role development and, having examined your own schemas about gender identity (stereotypes, expectations), respond effectively to children’s gender-associated needs and problems.

Recognize the role, influence, and relevance of peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, and analyze children’s functioning within their peer groups and structure interventions that meet needs for acceptance and belonging. It’s recess time for the third graders at Columbus

Describe biological processes in sex determination, differentiation in male and female prenatal development, sex-related vulnerabilities to hereditary diseases, and mortality rates.