MrCooke Teaches the Fourth Grade and Expects His Students to Show

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Mr.Cooke teaches the fourth grade and expects his students to show a high level of independence about completing assignments,following procedures,and keeping up with homework and other daily responsibilities.School started two months ago,and Mr.Cooke is becoming increasingly frustrated with Teagan and her unwillingness to stick with difficult tasks.Teagan does not take risks or accept challenges.She prefers to work on assignments that are easy,and she stops when she faces a challenge.Rather than asking for help,she either turns in an incomplete assignment or hides it in her desk.During group work,she seldom speaks up and only wants to fill roles that are easy for her.She is intellectually capable of succeeding academically,but she is not successfully resolving the developmental crisis of her current stage of psychosocial development.
Using Erikson's stages of psychosocial development,describe the developmental crisis Teagan must resolve.Suggest strategies Mr.Cooke might use to help Teagan resolve the crisis productively.