Learned theory about adolescents

Learned theory

During these periods I learned some relevant and useful information about adolescents in relation to their cognitive, emotional, and personal developement. First, I learned something about the adolescents' brain which is a work in progress. Since significant changes in the activity, anatomy and neurochemistry of the brain are happening during adolescence, which means that the brain is growing and making more connection between cells for a better brain functioning. Second, in relation to the ability of adolescents  towards learning I figured it out that they have more gray matter in their brains, which is something that allows them to learn more things in an easier and faster way. Third, the identity development is related to some different ways on how the self, identity, emotion, and personality affects adolescents. In here, I learned that adolescents are passing through a big process where they are trying to find their self-identity and sometimes this can have negative effect inside the classroom; that is why I learned in class some concrete techniqus to teach adolescents and one of this is to make them feel that they are always part of the class, try to asign them some roles, have them work in teams, and make from the class content something useful and interesting for them while using the target language.

Bibliography

• http://patwolfe.com/2011/09/the-adolescent-brain-a-work-in-progress/
• Santrock, John W. ADOLESCENCE Chapter 3. pp. 90-129 Mc Graw Hill. USA, 2010