Big Question: How can you as

an adolescent be prepared for

adult life by accomplishing
various developmental tasks
according to developmental
stages?
Objectives: At the end of this module,
you will be able to:
1. Classify various developmental tasks
according to developmental stage,
2. Evaluate your development in
comparison with persons of the same
age group, and
3. List ways to become a responsible
adolescent prepared for adult life.
Activity: MY PERSONAL TIMELINE
A personal timeline portrays the
influential events and happenings
of a person’s life so that he can
understand where he has gone
wrong and right in the past. It
helps to plan the future in a better
constructive way.
Using a bond paper, write the major
events in your life and the significant
people in your life. You may add your age,
specific dates and places. You may draw
the timeline horizontally, vertically,
diagonally or even using ups and down
depending on your imagination. Be
creative in your representations. You may
also use symbols, figures and drawings.
Think of a title for your personal timeline.
You may use crayons or art materials
depending on the available resources
or just a simple paper and pen may
be fine. You can also go for the
personal timeline website template
samples available online. The link is
https://www.template.net/business/t
imeline-templates/personal-timeline-
template/
Write about your
Personal Timeline
which you made in
class. Answer the
following questions:
 Portfolio Output
No. 5: My Personal
Timeline with
Reflection
1.Is there a ‘center’ or a central theme in your
timeline and life? If you will give a title for your
timeline what would it be and why?
2. Identify the turning points in your timeline. What
were the thoughts, feelings and actions that you
experienced?
3. Who are/were the most significant people in your
life? How did they influence you?
4. What would you change or add, if you could?
How would each of these changes or additions
affect your life, or even change its present course?
5.Where do you want to be in a year, 5 years, and
10 years? What do you expect your future timeline
will be?
DEVELOPMENTAL
STAGES
 Human Development focuses
on human growth and changes
across the lifespan, including
physical, cognitive, social,
intellectual, perceptual,
personality and emotional
growth.
 The study of human
developmental stages is
essential to understanding
how humans learn, mature
and adapt. Throughout their
lives, humans go through
various stages of
development.
 The human being is either in a state
of growth or decline, but either
condition imparts change. Some
aspects of our life change very little
over time, are consistent. Other
aspects change dramatically. By
understanding these changes, we can
better respond and plan ahead
effectively.
 Developmental Characteristics
Stage
1. Pre-natal (Conception to birth) Age when hereditary endowments
and sex are fixed and all body
features, both external and internal
are developed.
2. Infancy (Birth to 2 years) Foundation age when basic behavior
are organized and many ontogenetic
maturation skills are developed.
3. Early Childhood (2 to 6 years) Pre-gang age, exploratory, and
questioning. Language and
Elementary reasoning are acquired
and initial socialization is
experienced.
4. Late Childhood (6 to 12 years) Gang and creativity age when self-
Gang and creativity age when self- help skills, social skills, school skills,
help skills, social skills, school skills, and play are developed.
5. Adolesence Transition age from childhood to
(puberty to 18 years) adulthood when sex maturation and
rapid physical development occur
resulting to changes in ways of feeling,
thinking and acting.

6. Early Adulthood Age of adjustment to new patterns of life

(18-40 years old) and roles such as spouse, parent and
bread winner.

7. Middle Age Transition age when adjustments to

(40 years to retirement) initial physical and mental decline are
experienced.

8. Old Age Retirement age when increasingly rapid

(Retirement to death) physical and mental decline are
experienced.
Robert J. Havighurst elaborated on the
Developmental Tasks Theory in the most
systematic and extensive manner. His
main assertion is that development is
continuous throughout the entire
lifespan, occurring in stages, where the
individual moves from one stage to the
next by means of successful resolution of
problems or performance of
developmental tasks.
These tasks are those that are typically
encountered by most people in the
culture where the individual belongs. If
the person successfully accomplishes
and masters the developmental task, he
feels pride and satisfaction, and
consequently earns his community or
society’s approval. This success provides
a sound foundation which allows the
individual to accomplish tasks to be
encountered at later stages.
 Conversely, if the individual is not
successful at accomplishing a task, he is
unhappy and is not accorded the desired
approval by society, resulting in the
subsequent experience of difficulty when
faced with succeeding developmental
tasks. This theory presents the individual
as an active learner who continually
interacts with a similarly active social
environment.
Havighurst proposed a bio
psychosocial model of development,
wherein the developmental tasks at
each stage are influenced by the
individual’s biology (physiological
maturation and genetic makeup), his
psychology (personal values and
goals) and sociology (specific culture
to which the individual belongs).
 THE
DEVELOPMENTAL
TASKS SUMMARY
TABLE