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/