Harold Washington College Childhood Development & Health Questions

Review the prompt: Only answer questions 2-4. Attached are the articles needed to answer the questions.

1. What is your name? What is your major (if you are a student-at-large, tell us what you are working towards)? And when you were an emerging adolescent, ages 10-14, where were you living?

2. Download this document, Ages & Stages of the School-Age Child. Read pages 10-14. In reading about the developmental characteristics (including physical, social and emotional, intellectual/cognitive), what and behavior traits of 10-14-year-olds, what comes to mind about your own emerging adolescence? Share a memory from your own experiences. It can happy, awkward, sad, silly….it’s up to you!

3. Download this document, The Teen Years Explained: A Guide to Healthy Adolescent Development, Chapter 7 Profiles of Development. Select one of the profiles on 79-85 and respond to the two prompts below.

3a. How does the description of your selected adolescent relate to the physical, cognitive, social, and/or emotional characteristics and traits for 10-14-year-olds described in the Ages and Stages of the School-Aged Child document?

3b. In the Ages and Stages of the School-Aged Child document, read the “8 Developmental Needs of Young Adolescents” (p. 14) and “Other Needs & Likes of Early Adolescents”(p. 14-15) As an educator or mentor, which concepts would you apply to the adolescent in your selected profile and why?

4. Listen (or download the transcript) to this podcast, Teenagers are ‘Crazy’ But Expert Says Behavior is Vital to Development. Then respond to the two prompts below.

4a. What does the title mean? Explain.

4b. How does what the expert, Dr. Siegel, says relate to your own experiences (observed or personal)?

5. After you have posted, introduce (or re-introduce) yourself to at least 2 classmates! Comment on a shared experience or ask a question about an un-shared experience.