Secondary School Period
Teaching Teens: adapted from. http://pearsonclassroomlink.com/articles/1212/1212_0202.htm
Why is teaching teenagers such a challenge for most teachers?
Adolescents are often seen as problem students, but with their great ability for abstract thought and enthusiastic commitment to what they are doing once they are engaged, ‘teens may well be the most exciting students of all’ (Harmer J.)
Teenagers have a greater learning potential than young children, but they are much more difficult to motivate and manage. C reating a positive learning environment in which adolescents feel happy, secure, valued and motivated to learn can be incredibly difficult.
According to Worgan M., the reasons for this are many: teenagers are going through a lot of physical and emotional changes, including changes in their brains; if they come to class, it may be because that is the place where the rest of their friends are; they have a strong need for peer approval and this can have a very negative effect during a lesson; teens search for identity and they have a need for self-esteem; adolescents need to feel valued and good about themselves. These are just some of the reasons why it can be extremely difficult to work with this age group; however, once a teacher finds the correct balance between respect and authority, teaching teenagers can become a rewarding experience.
The key to good teaching, then, is to find out what gets the students' attention and use it to help them learn. Graham R. mentions in one of his articles: ‘you can't teach anybody anything, all you can do is open the door’.The modern version is that you're not teaching English, you're selling it to them!’ In other words, you have to convince students to learn and like English by using the right activities and topics for them.
My days at Secondary School
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