Adolescence provides opportunities for learning and development. The adolescent brain is highly plastic, making it an ideal time to learn new skills and absorb information. While teenagers face challenges like peer pressure and hormonal changes, adolescence also allows for learning, intellectual growth, and experiencing rewards. As teachers, we must value adolescents' intelligence, give them meaningful roles in decision making, and provide engaging activities that build skills in a safe environment to help teenagers develop into successful adults.

1. Adolescents Opportunities and Help provided by the teacher
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2. Adolescence is a pivotal period for youth to acquire the attitudes, competencies, values, and
social connections that will help carry them forward to successful adulthood.
A list of eight features of settings that promote adolescent development:
1. Physical and psychological safety
2. Appropriate structure
3. supportive relationships
4. opportunities to belong
5.positive social norms;
6. support for efficacy and mattering;
7. opportunities for skill building
8. opportunities for integration among family, schools, and community efforts.
Research shows that the more settings that adolescents experience reflecting these features,
the more likely they are to acquire the personal and social assets linked to both current and
future well-being.
Adolescence

3. Teenagers face real concerns, between 13 and 19 years of age, on a daily basis as this is the
most awkward growth stage of their lives. During this time, teens are exposed to some
overwhelming external and internal struggles. They go through, and are expected to cope with
hormonal changes, puberty, social and parental forces, work and school pressures, and so on.
Many teens feel misunderstood. It is vital that their feelings and thoughts are validated and that
the validation comes from their parents. Parents need to approach their children, who have
been dealing with teenage growth issues, carefully and in a friendly manner to discuss the
concern(s).
The common teenage problems that teenagers face today are usually related to:
1. Self-Esteem and Body Image
2. Stress
3. Bullying
4. Depression
5. Cyber Addiction
6. Drinking and Smoking
7. Teen Pregnancy
8. Underage Sex
9. Defiant Behaviors
10. Peer-Pressure and Competition
Challenges Faced by Adolescents

4. Adolescence is a unique and interesting time. In addition to being hard, it’s a period filled with
opportunities that we all need to do a better job capitalizing on. Here are three of them.
Opportunity 1
Adolescence is the best time to learn anything. The adolescent brain has just as much plasticity
as a newly developing brain of the first three years of life. A child’s growing brain emphasizes
basic survival functions like vision, motor skills, and attachment. The part of the adolescent
brain that’s so malleable is the prefrontal cortex, the area behind our forehead. Whether we’re
learning language, athletics, music, science, art, or non cognitive skills like self control,
empathy, and social skills, we need our prefrontal cortex. There will never be a better time to
absorb and integrate these skills. Our brain’s plasticity slows down significantly after
adolescence. Plasticity works both ways, which is why negative experiences like drugs and
alcohol are more detrimental during this time.
Opportunities for Adolescents

5. Opportunity 2
Adolescents are smart as adults. By the time they reach 16, they score as high on
standardized cognitive tests as they ever will. Their reasoning ability is just as good as adults.
And contrary to popular belief, they understand the risks of their behavior just as well as
adults do. This partially explains why they can be so good at arguing but often can’t stop. As
teachers, we need to do a better job of valuing and respecting the intelligence of these kids
and the contributions they have to offer.
Opportunity 3
One explanation is that adolescents experience rewards and positive experiences much more
intensely than children or adults. Things that feel good for adults or children, feel great during
adolescence. A teen that lies about going to an unsupervised party with alcohol and weed
knows the risks they’re taking, but the perceived benefit and fun carry too much weight.
Adolescents opportunities

6. I can help teens find engaging and rewarding activities that are also reasonably safe and
supervised. Unfortunately, most of the teens spend at school and doing homework as
boring. This makes finding activities they enjoy and learn from that much more
important.
Adolescence is such an important and critical period of development and one that we
need to be as thoughtful about as we are with the first three years of life.
As a teacher, you can do this by involving your adolescent in meaningful decisions. Give
her safe opportunities to take risks and make sure you’re teaching “non cognitive skills”
like frustration tolerance, interpersonal skills, problem solving, and resilience. Finally,
help your child develop mastery at something. The science of adolescence has
demonstrated that there is no better time to learn and try new things. It gets much
harder after that.
What will I do as a teacher