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Course: Supporting Adolescent Learners: Social and Emotional Wellbeing
Final conclusions
Let’s celebrate our success. We’re so pleased you’ve completed the course and hope you’re feeling inspired to take the next steps in getting involved in understanding how young adolescents’ social …
Further reflection on frameworks
As we’ve seen, positive youth development (PYD) frameworks focus on the protective and resiliency factors all young people need to live a healthy and happy life. Encompassing all areas as …
Viewpoint of a teacher
Before you watch the interview with Lisa Watson, a middle years teacher, first read about the categorisation of social and emotional skills into sets of competencies. The Collaborative for Academic, …
Adopt a personal framework
You can adopt a positive youth development (PYD) framework from one of the existing PYD models. Adopting a framework will help to ensure your interactions with young adolescents can be …
Positive youth development frameworks
Exploring the potential plasticity (adaptability to change) of adolescent development has led to the construction of a number of positive youth development (PYD) frameworks that view young adolescents through a …
The impact of developmental change
Biological changes such as changes in brain structure and increased hormone activity impact on adolescents’ thinking and behaviour. Impacting adult life There is a large and growing amount of research …
What is cognitive development?
Cognition is the process involving thought, rationale and perception, and the brain is at the centre of cognition. Development intertwined with experiences It is a feature of adolescence that it …
Emotional responses in the brain
Does adolescent thinking and behaviour sometimes seem illogical, inconsistent or emotively biased? Could this be related to the major changes occurring in the adolescent brain? This video introduces you to …
Developmental theories of adolescence
As we know, adolescence is now recognised as a time of opportunity and growth. It is a stage of development which strongly influences the future lives of young people. In …
Physical, social, emotional and cognitive development
Adolescent developmental domains are intertwined and strongly influenced by experiences and environments. The developmental changes that typically occur in adolescence have been documented extensively in literature that is widely accessible. …
Age-stage developmental theory
The idea of adolescence has been around for a long time – more than 100 years in fact. Let’s explore how the idea evolved, who some of the theorists are …
Adolescence and lifelong learning
Now that we have explored the idea of age-stage developmentalism and adolescence, we can link this to the idea of lifelong learning. In 1996 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and …
See you next week
Week 1 complete Congratulations on getting this far. By now you will have an understanding of adolescence and the main developmental domains characterising this stage, that is: physical social emotional …
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Supporting Adolescent Learners: Social and Emotional Wellbeing
