cognitive Development in Teenagers
What I knew
What I knew about cognitive development is that at this stage teenagers can solve more complex problems. Also, the ability to reason is increasing, and they consider different opinions and points of view.
After reading
After reading information about this topic, I can define this process as the capacity to think and reason in a complex way by reflecting on the way teenagers make decisions.
According to the book “Human Development” there are two ways of thinking:
Concrete operations: this process is called this because children (6 to 12 years old) can think concretely and what they are thinking about it is physically present (e.g. subtract or divided).
The second thinking process is called formal operations by this time adolescence can develop more complex thinking, including abstract thinking, they can create new ideas or make questions and they can consider different points of view according to the criteria they have.
Something that called my attention while reading this article is that some indicators are indicating a progression from simple to more complex thinking development, and these indicators are the following:
Early adolescence: complex thinking is focused on school and home environments.
Middle adolescence: complex thinking is focused on futuristic plans for different possibilities.
Late adolescence: complex thinking is focused on personal decisions, idealistic views on specific topics also, is focused on making career decisions.
Conclusion.
During this process, there are really important changes happening in the teenager’s brain but the intellectual capacity is increasing and they can solve more complex problems so as a future teacher, I can put my students to work in solving a complex task with logical thinking but, of course, I need to be aware of the attention span because with many changes happening in the brain their attention span can be shorted. So for that, I need to look for interesting tasks or topics that called the attention of my students we do not have to work only with worksheets because that could be so boring for students.
Greetings. I do like your viewpoint about how the ability to think changes at that age. teacher can help them to develop that ability by making different activities in which you ask pupils to imagine about what is going on with certain topic so you are encouraging to discover and practice that growth.
ResponderEliminarHello Fati, I like the information that you included in the cognitive development because you included the indicators for more complex development. For the early adolescents that focus on school to the late adolescents that focus on personal decisions like making a careers decision. I think it is a good way to describe how an adolescent’s brain evolves during this period of life.
ResponderEliminarGreat way of summarizing the topics Fatima! I relaly enjoy reading you blog because is neat and clear, besides that, you propose very simple but effective strategies for helping the teenage student learn English.
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