Chapter 4: Developmental Dimensions Of Learning

Topic: How Adolescents Learn

What is Adolescence?

Dynamic change representing the change from childhood to adulthood, beginning with puberty

Period of preparation for adulthood Furious growth and development Progression from appearance of secondary

sexual characteristics (puberty) to sexual and reproductive maturity

Development of adult mental process and identity

Transition from total social-economic dependence to relative independence

AdolescenceAges 15 – 19 years old

Ethics / Morality

Increases exposure to values and beliefs of others

Starts to question own beliefs, which may lead to conflicts with parents or family

Begins to develop own set of values

Emotional

Develops more advanced problem-solving skills

Concerned with self-image compared to peers

Identity

Has sense of self that is largely shaped by peers, although becoming less so

May be struggling with gender identification

Family

May become more removed from family and may seek more privacy

Moves away from parents toward peers

Social

Peers influence leisure activities, appearance, substance use, and initial sexual behaviors.

Family influences education, career, religious values, and beliefs

Multiple Intelligences

The Theory of Howard Gardner

Linguistic Children with this kind of intelligence enjoy writing,

reading, telling stories or doing crossword puzzles,speaking and listening.

Activities: reading books, writing and telling stories.

Logical-Mathematical

Children with lots of logical intelligence are interested in patterns, categories and relationships. They are drawn to arithmetic problems, strategy games and experiments.

Activities: work with abstract symbol, patterns, questioning, categorize, classify observations, experimenting, formulate hypotheses and construct relationships

Bodily-Kinesthetic This is the ability to use physical gestures to express

emotions. They are often athletic, dancers or good at crafts such as sewing or woodworking. In other words – learn by doing.

Activities: dance, drama, body language, role play, games, create products or invent things.

Spatial These children think in images and pictures. They

may be fascinated with mazes or jigsaw puzzles, or spend free time drawing, reading charts and maps, building with Legos or daydreaming.

Activities: maps, charts and puzzles, design, draw and create things.

Musical Musical children are always singing or drumming to

themselves. They are usually quite aware of sounds others may miss and are good auditory learners.

Activities: Singing, music, playing an instrument.

Interpersonal Children who are leaders among their peers, who are

good at communicating and who seem to understand others' feelings and motives possess interpersonal intelligence.

Activities: Group work, interview, managing people

Intrapersonal Through this intelligence we explore our thoughts, our emotions, what we think, feel and why we do the things we do.

Activities: Individual work.

Natural Involves understanding the natural world of plants and animals, noticing their characteristics, and categorizing them; it generally involves keen observation and the ability to classify other things as well.

Activities: exploring nature, making collections of objects, studying them, and grouping them

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.” 

Proverbs 3:5-6

Prepared by: Angelica E. Dimarucut

(TLE- Sched 4)