Examples of this include a girl getting her first period and a boy having his first nocturnal emission.
What is sexual maturation?
100
A preoccupation with this causes much stress for both boys and girls during this time period.
What is their body shape or body image?
100
Teachers and parents need to recognize that this age group is called an ________stage for a reason.
What is awkward stage?
100
Students of this age are still this type of thinker and don't realize they are being very self centered.
What are concrete, operational thinkers?
100
Teachers/parents can do this by encouraging students to set realistic goals, support safe risk taking, and help students recognize they will not always succeed.
What are ways to improve self esteem?
200
This can cause a disparity between the size of boys and girls in middle school.
What is growth spurt?
200
This type of timing of development can lead to health issues for girls such as depression and eating disorders.
What is developing earlier than their peers?
200
Emotional, social, and/or intellectual development does not align to this type of development.
What is physical development?
200
imaginary audience
What is it called when a student thinks everyone is looking at them at all times?
200
Goleman listed traits such as confidence, curiosity, self control, and communication as a few of the traits that will lead to this___________.
What is emotional intelligence?
300
These three glands cause the dramatic biological changes we see in young adolescents.
What is the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, the adrenal glands, and the gonads?
300
While this may seem beneficial for boys, this kind of timing of development leads to boys selecting older friends which may lead to a greater risk for tobacco or drug use.
What is early development?
300
This and not ADHD can cause the need for frequent movement.
What is changing hormones?
300
personal fable
What is it called when a student has an artificially elevated sense of uniqueness?
300
Doing this can keep an adult calm when dealing with the roller coaster of emotions a teen may express.
What is keep things in perspective and understand this is normal behavior?
400
This is when the last three vertebrae bones fuse together to form the tailbone and happens during adolescence.
What is ossification?
400
At this age, this can be a basis for friend selection and can influence popularity.
What is physical appearance?
400
This causes it to be uncomfortable for young adolescents to sit still for very long.
What is changing bone structure?
400
This is derived by evaluating the student's self image, ideal self, and awareness of how others view him.
What is self esteem?
400
Teachers and parents should do this rather than just brush a teen crying about what seems to be a trivial moment of embarrassment.
What is taking concerns seriously?
500
These two habits formed in adolescence will follow the students into adulthood, so parents need to monitor and teach these habits as needed.
What is hygiene and good nutrition?
500
Since young adolescents judge their bodies based on what is in the media, it is important that adults around them do this.
What is provide opportunities to identify other positive traits about themselves?
500
Teacher and parents need to be careful not to do this as young adolescents are trying to form their own identity and sensitive to this type of commentary.
What is comparisons between siblings and peers?
500
This is an assessment of one's abilities in certain areas such as scholastic, athletic, or social abilities.
What is self concept?
500
One way teachers can accommodate the emotional stressors of a middle school student's life is to use differentiation, alternative forms of assessment, or altering pacing. These all provide this______.