Adolescent Intellectual Development
By HPS Middle School Teachers
Significant facts about development
- Highly curious, if interested
- Favor active over passive learning
- Grasp concepts from concrete to abstract
How is practice impacted?
- Use a wide variety of approaches (cognitive, affective, psychomotor)
- Connect to real-life experiences ("their world")
New or surprising information
- Adolescents can appreciate sophisticated levels of humor (within specified relationships)
- Pick up on more than we think they do
Evidence in our practice
- Keen observers
- Affected by change (environment, schedule)
- Enjoy leadership roles
- Don't like Intellectual skills being called into question or pointed out as what they don't know
Aligning practices to recommendations
- Connect to adolescent experiences in each of our classrooms
- Differentiate skill-based activities
Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
Some of our top instuctors
Middle School Conference 2013
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