Adolescent Development
This a stage of development that everyone can identify with and is seen as a challenging, yet exciting time in life.
What is adolescence?
Academics are important part in preparing students for life, but teachers know this plays a role in middle school years.
What is socialization?
The middle school years are a time of an almost constant search for this in different areas like gender, ethnic, physical and spiritual concerns.
What is identity?
The development of this in the early 1900s had a great impact on the structure of education and how middle schools run.
What is the factor assembly line?
This is one good trait that students will notice each day from their teacher.
What is a positive attitude?
This is the first physical change in young adolescents. It happens in the skeletal and muscular systems.
What is a growth spurt?
This helps adolescents to figure out their personal identity and know what fits.
What is peer feedback?
Although students have interest in conforming and belonging to a social group, adolescents still want to have this.
What is individuality?
The Carnegie Corporation of NY established this in 1986 because of concerns for early pregnancy, school failure, and alcohol abuse.
What is the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development?
According to the Association for Middle Level Education, education for adolescents must be developmentally responsive, challenging, empowering, and this.
What is equitable?
Less sleep among teens leads to these three things to happen. (Name just one)
Possible answers: What is reduced exercise? What is an inability to manage stress well? What is poor eating habits?
Although it doesn't seem like, these people continue to play a primary role in adolescent life.
What are the parents?
This is Geneva Gay's first stage in identity development for diverse ethnic backgrounds in adolescence.
What is identity diffusion?
When it comes to these, they should include support for one another, camaraderie, working towards similar goals, and creating healthy friendships.
What are teams?
This is an essential part of creating mutual respect. This is formed when teachers share some of their personal interests with students.
What is trust?
This is a process where new brain cells don't survive, eventually shrinking and disappearing.
What is pruning?
Being that online interactions are not face-to-face, young adolescents develop false sense of this and become involved in more risk-taking.
What is security?
This is when students refuse to do tasks in traditional/learning rituals that are a part of typical classrooms in the U.S.?
What is oppositional identity?
This person is an adult that advocates for students' academic, personal, and social development. This person also provides a caring and nurturing relationship.
What is an advisor?
An understanding of this process helps teachers to make better decisions for their class and classroom
What is learning?
Most students start at the concrete operational stage when entering middle school and leave in this stage of thought.
What is formal operational thought/stage?
Skills from teens in this improve when they are able to reflect on their behaviors, with how it effects themselves and others.
What is moral reasoning?
This is the final stage of Berk's homosexual identity formation. This involves the challenge of deciding to tell others and predicting their reactions. This includes peers and parents.
What is self-acceptance?
This can lead to loneliness, low self-esteem, depression, post-traumatic stress, and other harmful emotional effects in their adult years.
What is bullying?
The most powerful these are designed with student input. These are scoring guides used to evaluate student work.
What are rubrics?