Teaching And Learning Of Adolescent

Stages of Adolescent Development

Adolescence is a time of great change for young people when physical changes are happening at a very faster rate. But adolescence is not just about physical changes. Young people are affected by larger spectrum of factors including their age, their learning experiences, their environment, their cognitive, physical,social,socio-economical experiences The normal feelings and behaviors of the middle school and high school adolescent can be categorized into four broad areas:

1. Acquiring Independence
2. Future interests and cognitive development
3. Sexual behaviors
4. Morality and direction determination

Anyone who has been a teenager will recall the ups and downs of being at school. When your child is having a hard or stressful time, there are some common experiences that you might like to consider:

1. New environment
2. Needs of decision making
3. harassment in physical, cyber or social perspectives
4. Friendships and classmates influence and competition
5. Diffused thoughts
6. Exam phobias

Signs that adolescent might be having a tough timeIf you're unsure how your teenager is coping, look out for these changes in their mood or behavior, then use our resources to support them:

• Isolated and depressed attitude
• Lack of interest in what is happening around
• Variation in life routine
• Irritated and allergic from surroundings

Other ways you can support your growing child Building strong relationship is the key solution for curbing all issues relevant to adolescent development, Right contextualization of variation in learning helps the teacher with right way to address that issue, hormonal changes involve drastic changes in response to same happenings that never used to trigger such hyper active and excited mood Challenges in Adolescent Settings along with their Solutions There is no shortage of challenges in school education.

Here are five such challenges:

Raising the professional status of teaching

Elevation of professional standing and status of middle teacher is the foremost solution for the problems relevant to adolescent’s grooming and training, A professional with the solid background will only opt to become a middle teacher when job framework for middle teachers involve enough of facilities,perks and previligies enjoyed by primary and secondary education, Middle school demands separately trained and educatione experts with solid background and training of handling with growing children, Methodoloical handling, Compassionate attitude and firmness in educationist are the salient features required by an expert middle school teacher, Developed countries like JAPAN and Finland only hire 1 out of 10 professionals for middle teaching. Their success in education system lies in the fact that they hire specialized experts for middle school stream

Reducing disparities between Australian schools

A second challenge is to reduce the disparity between the schooling experiences of students in Australia’s most and least advantaged schools. The OECD’s Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) shows that some countries have been successful both in lifting overall levels of achievement and in reducing differences related to socioeconomic background. Germany, Mexico and Turkey are examples. Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background. According to the OECD, at least as important as how many countries spend on schools is how these resources are distributed across schools.

Designing a 21st-century curriculum

Conventional curriculum don’t stand at par with the immediate requirements of global community, 21st CENTURY CURRICULUM MUST GROW AS FAST AS Technology is growing, Modern community is completely acquainted and familiarized with advancements in digital technology, practical implication of Biology, Chemistry, medicine,engineering are far more important than only devising wrote learning techniques on blackboards, Smart boards, digitally literate educationist with complete knowledge of pros and cons of application of modern skills and technology in pedagogy are essential. Curriculum with more practical knowledge, more digitally aware culture, with more skill-based ;earning is need of time Digital experts, Epistomologsts,pedagogy experts,religious scholars,doctors,engineers and scientists diaspora have to re-devise the entire curriculum and they need to align all of the present century knowledge in more skillful, attractive,digitalized and interesting manner.

Promoting flexible learning arrangements focused on growth

A fourth challenge is to provide more flexible learning arrangements in schools to better meet the needs of individual learners. Individualized and personalized teaching can only address different types of students with different levels of interest for different subjects, Students have different genomic backgrounds along with different learning experiences Meeting this fourth challenge depends on more flexible ways of personalizing teaching and learning – for example, by using technology to better target individuals’ current levels of achievement and learning needs – and on defining learning success and failure in terms of the progress, or growth, that individuals make over time, regardless of their starting points. In this way, excellent progress becomes an expectation of every student, including those who are already more advanced.

Identifying and meeting the needs of children on trajectories of low achievement

A fifth challenge is to identify as early as possible children who are at risk of falling behind in their learning and to address their individual learning needs. Devising different teaching styles for different learning styles in students. ,Students psychology, cultural background and interests must be kept in mind while devising strategies, It will be extremely fruitful to reduce the age gap among the same class mates and ensuring more equity and equality is anticipated in this solution

6- Dedicated middle level teacher education in Australian universities is integral to advancing the middle years of schooling reform agenda and to improving educational outcomes for young adolescents. Clear QUALIFICATION requirements,DISTINCT training courses with psychology and genomics as mainstream important tool , Digitalization and digitally literate educationists are core objectives for this initiative, No ambiguity of utilizing middle class teachers in senior and junior streams is required. That will largely help in dealing with adolescent learning issue in most precise and appropriate manner CULTURE, LEARNING AND LEARNING STYLES

In getting down to the detail of programs or curricula at the school or local level you have to take into account local situations, practice and community acceptance. This can become extremely difficult. It emotionally tears you apart in trying to be both a politician and a practitioner (Hughes, 1997). Many theories of education have placed value on 'cultural contexts' and the 'place of culture' in pedagogy. These, however, have often been directed at 'elitist' approaches to transmitting a particular cultural heritage, or to the value of 'communal influences' and social relationships on the individual child. Debates about 'two-way schooling', 'both-ways schooling', 'Aboriginal perspectives across the curriculum' and greater involvement by Aboriginal people in decision making are contributing to a new understanding of the place of culture in education. In our opinion until recently the use of "culture" in educational statements was too loose referring to youth culture, gender aspects of culture, and the place of the arts in the classroom. However, the new perspectives on culture have helped to emphasize the effect of cultural influences, characteristic of particular social groups, on student behaviors and ways of learning, and hence on the pedagogical practices of teachers.

At the Commonwealth level, the 1985 NAEC report emphasized that education for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders should not only embody "a growing understanding by them of the many elements of their culture, (it should) also assist the development of their own personal identity. and their feelings of self-esteem and cultural awareness" (1985: 12). At the State level, mission statements now reflect the same view. Indeed, many of the mission statements add that a school practice is questionable if it fails to acknowledge the contribution of all major social and cultural groups to the collective experience, identity and operation of the school. Reynolds and Skilbeck (1976) discussed the manner in which people, including teachers, are shaped by culture, and how in turn people shape the culture. They emphasize that in planning a curriculum it is Important to be aware of the ways in which culture impinges on the Curriculum. They concluded that there are social structures that function in school life which teachers cannot ignore, and there are hidden processes and connections in the imparting of cultural messages.

The most honest way of regarding the curriculum is to see it partly as the outcomes of the plans, aspirations, ideas and feelings of individual teaches and pupils, partly as the outcomes and social processes with hidden patterns about which we can learn much more.

These views elicit the primary importance of connection between culture and learning of a student. Teacher must keep the particular cultural background of the student while teaching,Keeping Aboriginal and Torres model in mind,the community which is completely different to other communities in Australia, same can be said about Black and white Americans, About different religious backgrounds, different ethnicities,different regional ethnic groups,An educationist must devise separate ways of learning for culturally different children,Resistance from change can only be handled by reducing the gap between learning model and learning, Language, cultural sensitivities, learning styles, attractions,irritations,interests must be kept in mind while devising pedagogical techniques, If aboriginal student is comfortable with aboriginal teacher, Institution has to exercise extra care and sensitivity in this particular regard Policy statement for devising Adolescent Teaching and Learning Program Recommendation:

1. Specialized Faculty for middle school system
2. Team teaching with number of experts for all subjects
3. Psychological and psychiatric considerations as a major tire of adolescent teaching and learning policy
4. Culture-learning contextualized pedagogical approaches
5. Digitalization and E-pedagogy as more attractive way for engaging adolescents
6. Individualized and Personalized teaching
7. Strengthening Parent-Teacher-Administration Triangular collaboration
8. Active participation in co-curricular activities for boosting confidence
9. Overcoming disparity among pupils
10. 10 –Modern, Digitally revolutionized and more skill enhancing curriculum