My name is
Roxana Diaz, I am 24 years old I am student of English teaching at Don Bosco
University, El Salvador. This is my fourth year studying officially, I said
officially for the reason that I had to stop studying for one year for
different situations. Even if it caused a delay in my studies, I believe the
main reason is because I will become better teacher with the new subjects which
was added on the Pensum. I am glad to say I learned English, at Don Bosco
University; it was not easier because I was a student who started from zero.
However, I was very lucky with my first teacher Margarita Viscarra, she was
patient, and most important she provide with excellent bases of English. I want
to be ingles teacher because I already knew about the importance of ingles
around the word. English language is one of the five most spoken languages you
may imagine how many doors ingles language may open. I think if I teach ingles
to students it will be the best tool that they may have to get better jobs it
means more opportunities for Salvadorian people to support themselves and their
families. That is the real motivation for me, change the quality life of people
in El Salvador.
Physical development, Psychosocial development and
Cognitive development in adolescence.
Teenager is
considered a young person between 13 and 19 years old, it is the stage of
transition from childhood to adult in this period of time many change occur in
the teenager’s bodies, and in the brain. Teenagers are developing physical,
psychosocial, and cognitive changes which help them to become adults who argue
and interact correctly. The first noticeable change occur physically it depends
on your body how drastically will be, but this is the way people know that
children are growing correctly.
Physical development.
The first
word I think when I heard Physical development is puberty that period of my
life when everything was important, what other people think about me, when
taking the decision was horrible, If I was dressing acceptable for my friend.
That period of the life when I knew my decision will affect mine adult
life. Nowadays, with research, videos teenager might understand better
this process of the life. But most important this information might help
teacher to understand the behavior of students.
First, the
physical changed in adolescence are inside and outside of the teenagers’
bodies. Some remarkable and visible change on outside bodies will be for girls;
breast is development, and the shape of the body change; for boys the body and
facial hair growth, the voice is changed. All these changes are caused by
hormonal activities in adolescence. But also body is developing inside organs,
muscle, and parts of the brain are developing which affect the judgment that
why “Adolescents often engage in increased risk-taking behaviors and experience
heightened emotions during puberty this may be due to the fact that the frontal
lobes of their brain which are responsible for judgment, impulse control, and
planning” It means their behaviors, uncontrolled reaction and impulsive
decision are caused by all the changes during the adolescence because the brain
is under construction.
Teenagers do
not want to be judge for how they take decision or for their actions, they
wanted to be listening and understand what it is happen with their bodies and
behaviors; what they really need is a guide, activities which help them to
develop their brain, and skill to becomes adult who reasonable properly. In the
classroom I will have seen teenagers being shy who will not want to
participate, and others students more active, that means as teacher I have to
create an environment where students feel confident with each other. In order
to achieve the objectives I will look for with activities when they might work
in pair in order they may feel confident, then in group at end in front of
other, I will point out that they can make mistakes which will help them to
learn.
McGraw-Hill
Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Source: Boundless. “Physical Development in
Adolescence.” Boundless Psychology. Boundless, 26
May.2016. Retrieved 17 Aug. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/human-development-14/adolescence-73/physical-development-in-adolescence-282-12817/
Psychosocial development
What I
imagined about psychosocial development is everything related with teenagers in
the society, who they might act in their life facing all the change in their
internal and external bodies with their families and friends.
Psychosocial
development is defined by Dictionary by Farlex: “the development of the
personality, including the acquisition of social attitudes and skills, from
infancy through maturity” means adolescents are discovering who they are; they
are discovering what they will want to do in the future. Erick Ericson had
theories about the psychosocial development he divided in 8 stages, in stage
number called 5. Identify vs. Role period between from 12 to 18 when
teenagers go through a transition, they are becoming independent and begin to
look at the future and.
My opinion
about this stage was wrong but with the theory of Erickson what I understood is
in this period of time teenagers will encounter with the question who are they?
Or what will they do as adult? In order to answer those questions they may
experiment different lifestyle to encounter with their abilities, and what will
be their roles in the future. It means that in the classroom I will have
students that one day they will be in the groups of nerd participating in class
activities, otherwise, another day they will be with the lazy group who they do
not want to participate, for those cases I will to look for activities which
students learn the language in the same time give students the opportunities to
work with all the member in the classroom to avoid distraction and know the
thought of other and how they deal with their psychosocial development.
McLeod, S. A.
(2013). Erik Erikson. Retrieved from www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html
Cognitive development
Cognitive
development means the growth of adolescence ability to think and reason their
decisions; they start to take into account the possibilities and who wrong
decision might affect, also in the cognitive development makes teenagers
consider their own ideas and opinions. Jean Pageant called this stage the
formal operation it is the last period of cognitive development as a result for
their experiences, and mature. When teenagers are in this stage they are able
to manipulate the word in their mind manipulating the abilities to think
abstract concepts.
The theory of
Jean Pageant lets me know that I are able to provide activities for students a
little more difficult which encourage them to think more analytic, even the
images are good for activities, teenagers are able to resolve more complex
activities.
Source: Boundless. “Cognitive Development in Adolescence.” Boundless Psychology. Boundless, 08 Aug. 2016. Retrieved
17 Aug. 2016 from https://www.boundless.com/psychology/textbooks/boundless-psychology-textbook/human-development-14/adolescence-73/cognitive-development-in-adolescence-283-12818/
