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Title: Adolescent Growth and Development


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Adolescent Growth and Development
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Common Values and Attitudes
  • We all play. As physical educators, we want to
    develop skillful players its the difference
    between PE and recess.
  • Fitness can dramatically add to the quality of
    ones life.

3
Common Values and Attitudes
  • Physical Education has value in its contribution
    to a healthy lifestyle.
  • There are many social values that can be learned
    through PE.
  • We must accomplish something when we teach.

4
Common Values and Attitudes
  • You the teacher, will be seen as an extension of
    PE and its value will be determined accordingly.
  • People will look to you to see what physical
    education is about and why it should be valued.

5
Teaching All Kids Huh?
  • over 5.3 million students enrolled in K-12
    schools in the U.S.
  • about 35 of these students are from racial and
    ethnic minority groups
  • 82-84 of teachers and administrators are white
    (75 are women 56 of principals are men)
  • 69 of children attending high poverty urban
    schools are of color 33 are limited in English
    language proficiency

6
Teaching All Kids Huh?
  • By 2020 about 2/3 of the school population will
    be African American, Asian American, Hispanic, or
    Native American
  • 32 of teachers feel they are prepared to address
    the needs of students from diverse backgrounds
  • Less than 15 of teachers are fluent in a second
    language

7
So what!
  • Student identities come in all shapes and sizes
    and impact how a child navigates through the
    educational process
  • Likewise, we all have a social identity and a set
    of biases that we filter our teaching through
    (conscious and unconscious)
  • In other words, student and teacher identities
    directly influence what is and isnt learned in
    the gymnasium

8
Socially Competent Teachers Who are they?
  • Socially conscious cultural content knowledge
  • Hold Affirming attitudes toward students from
    diverse backgrounds
  • Believe that knowledge is constructed by and
    embedded in each learner
  • Learn about students and their communities
  • Are committed to being an agent of change

9
Who is Todays Adolescent?
  • Very Technology Savvy
  • Fashion Driven (Hair and Hats, Tattoos and Body
    Piercing)
  • Access to a wide variety of Music
  • Access to Information
  • More Sedentary
  • More Mobile but Less Active
  • Access to 24 hour T.V./ Internet

10
Physical Growth and Development
  • Boys and girls are taller, heavier and mature
    earlier than ever before.
  • Adolescents differ widely in physical growth,
    body build and physical capacity.
  • Significant physiological differences exist
    between genders and within each gender.
  • Boys and girls of the same age differ in rates of
    maturation.

11
Intellectual Development
  • Today's youth are better informed.
  • The wealth of information and choices available
    to teens may cause confusion in processing
    information and making decisions.
  • The number of students with learning disabities
    has increased dramatically.

12
Social Development
  • Adolescents change social interaction patterns
    and challenge parental and authority roles.
  • Peer approval is more important
  • Adolescents need to learn to accept
    responsibility for their actions.
  • During mid-adolescence, boys and girls mature at
    different rates.
  • During late-adolescence, teens become more
    accepting of others, despite differences.

13
Emotional Development
  • Students need to build and maintain feelings of
    personal worth and belonging.
  • They struggle with appearance, hormonal,
    personality, and mood changes.
  • They try to establish independence while
    maintaining adult approval and affection.
  • Youth try on different personalities to find one
    that suits them.
  • They are concerned about social injustices.

14
Motor skill development
  • Is motor skill specific
  • Occurs in stages
  • Not all students will reach the final stage with
    all motor skills

15
Adolescents and Physical Activity
  • Physical activity is beneficial in physical,
    emotional, intellectual, and physiological health
  • Females are less active than males
  • Need daily moderate activity (30-60 min.)
  • Try to focus on physical activity rather than on
    fitness

16
Implications of Student Differences for Teaching
  • Knowing individual differences helps teachers
    individualize instruction.
  • Students in one grade level may be as much as 11
    months different in age, not counting older
    students who have been held back.
  • The trend is toward inclusion and acceptance of
    all students.

17
Implications of Student Differences for Teaching
  • Motor ability factors predispose students to
    success in different activities (agility,
    balance, coordination, flexibility, strength,
    speed).
  • Programs should include a variety of activities
    so students will find something commensurate with
    their abilities and be challenged to extend their
    abilities.

18
Individual differences are respected and valued.
  • Focus on what students can do.
  • Equal educational opportunities require different
    treatments to meet differing needs of students.

19
Eliminate embarrassment and failure.
  • Choosing teams
  • Elimination games
  • Grading policies

20
Build ego-strength(self-concept)
  • Listen to students.
  • Learn names and pronounce them correctly.
  • Learn about students--cultures, interests.
  • Give leadership opportunities.
  • Provide success in skill performance and fitness
    activities.
  • Compliment students when deserved and
    appropriate.

21
Alter and adapt.
  • Modify activities.
  • Emphasize cooperation.
  • Capitalize on students' strengths.
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