Energiser
Shake out your body one limb at a time. Starting with eight shakes of the right arm, then eight shakes of the left, eight shakes of the right leg, then eight shakes of the left. Continues with a round of four shakes of each limb, then two, then one, ending in a big cheer
Objectives
- Participants will understand at least 1-2 physical, emotional, social and academic needs of youth.
- Participants will brainstorm ways to adapt their teaching in age-appropriate ways.
What research says about youth (Ages 16 – 30)
Physical Characteristics
- It is a time when people are at their healthiest.
- The brain is still increasing in size.
- Full physical maturation is complete: full height and secondary sexual characteristics are attained.
- There is a need to be physically active.
Emotional Characteristics
- Develop self-reliance.
- Have greater concern for others.
- Adopt a personal value system.
- Enter final stage of brain development for emotional regulation.
- Develop thoughts about their role in life.
Social Needs
- Develop stable peer relationships
- Family formation is being considered while still remaining a member of their birth family.
- Experience changes in parental relationships.
- Development of romantic and sexually oriented relationships.
Learning/Cognitive
- Transition to adult roles and responsibilities and may learn a trade, work, and/or pursue higher education
- Fully understand abstract concepts and are aware of consequences and personal limitations
- Identify career goals and prepare to achieve them
- Interests stabilize
- Enter final stages of development of complex reasoning, problem-solving, thinking ahead, prioritizing, long-term planning, self-evaluation
- Objectives of the lesson
Understanding the needs of youth
Here are ways that research has shown learning in the classroom can help youth prepare for a successful life both in and out of their workplace.
Physical Needs
What Youth Need To Be Present in the Classroom
- Create places and spaces where they can learn.
- Create places where it is safe to be themselves.
- Continue to provide different ways of learning that include physical movement.
Emotional Needs
Help Youth with What They Want to Become
- Help youth form an identity as an adult in the work world.
- Allow youth to take responsibility for themselves and to lead an ethical life.
- Help youth to have greater confidence in their future.
Social Needs
Understand How Youth Want to See Themselves
- Have relationships that allow them to be true to themselves, where they can have deeper relationships.
- Give the youth respect for who they are, how they behave, and what they value.
- Help youth create and address a desire to serve others, to make the world a better place for all.
- Provide learning that enhances a positive self-identity, life satisfaction, and a sense of purpose.
Learning/Cognitive Needs
What Youth Need to Learn
- Engage youth in thinking, reasoning, and solving abstract and theoretical problems.
- Help youth learn skills that lead towards financial independence and responsibility.
- Teach life skills to help youth avoid pitfalls and help create solutions to real life conflicts.
- Keep youth busy with real life skills and do not allow them to be idle.
- Give the youth the credentials of a degree or certification that tells them and the working world that they know their craft.
