By attending to classes and researching I found that teenagers not only experience physical changes but vital changes are taking place in their brain. According to the article adolescents brain developed published on january 22, 2014 by the online magazine thInk neuroscience, "Scientific evidence is showing that the brain systems involved in decision-making, planning, social understanding and risk-taking are developing in adolescence. This might have implications for education, rehabilitation and intervention". So, we can see that brain influences on teenager´s decitions.
The National Institute of Mental Health stated that:
- Several lines of evidence suggest that the brain circuitry involved in emotional responses is changing during the teen years.
- The capacity of a person to learn will never be greater than during adolescence.
- Enormous hormonal changes take place during adolescence. Reproductive hormones shape not only sex-related growth and behavior, but overall social behavior. Hormone systems involved in the brain's response to stress are also changing during the teens. As with reproductive hormones, stress hormones can have complex effects on the brain, and as a result, behavior.
We can infer that brain has such a great impact on teenagers that it can changes behavior but it also makes these ages the most suitable to learn.
As a teacher I will be working with teenagers which means dealing with behavioral changes due to brain influences and also with teens' hormones that will have implications on students' reactions and behavior. I expect to learn methods that will help me to teach a class in which I can make a real connection with my students that will allow me to interact with them in order to find out what they are going through and based on that use an approach to teach them.
Hello Tomas. I find your entry very insightful. I must say that,aside from the brain changes, indeed, sometimes culture influences the way teenagers behave. However, I must also say that nurture and nature are important aspects to consider, plus the teacher can also influence their behavior.
ResponderEliminarHello Eu,
EliminarI totally agree with you. You know I was reading an article about nurturing students which was done in 2010 in New England and they actually asked parents with kids in schools
"what they most value about the school, and they almost always say that they love the personal attention their child receives and are delighted that the people at school really know, really "get" their daughter or son".
That happens because independent schools are committed to nurturing every child, not just the very best students and the struggling students.