Chapter 2: Motivating Young Adolescents

This chapter is pretty self-explanatory given the chapter name. This is the one thing that is going to be a constant struggle no matter how long I've been teaching, or how confident I am about what education is and what it can do. One of the first thing this chapter says is "Young adolescents are moving through one of the most dynamic stages of development of their lives." This is going to me the main reason that my student didn't do they're homework, forgot they had a test, or show attitude in class in an inappropriate way. Their lives are changing, their physical beings are changing. I think that the biggest thing that we as teachers can do according to the book is to immerse ourselves in finding out what their interests are. When we figure that out we need to keep finding ways to be supportive, not just in our classroom, but also in that interest.