Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Troubled Adolescent at school

Today, our classmates, Paula, Ma Teresa and Marlene, made an interesting presentation about "troubled adolescent at school".
I think that this is a very important matter to know for a future teacher as me, because understanding the process of changes in the brain and body of teenagers I would be able to understand their behaviour in a good and empathetic way.
Through girl's presentation I could understand why some teenagers tend to present some problems in their behaviour, where, their life experiences (influence of family), growing process (poverty) and context (socio-cultural) are the most important factors.
Some times, the influence of the environment represents a huge risk in the life of teenagers, incentivating the abuse of alcohol, drugs and other negative elements for their healt. In the beginning, these things can be fun and interesting for a young person but in some moment their results can be really detrimental, causing suicides and violence.
Finally, girl's presentation finished with an interesting activity, where we had to think in a good solution for two cases of "troubled adolescent at school". For me, this activity was the most interesting and fun stage of their presentation, because through these examples, I could think like a real teacher who faces the students' problems.

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