The knowledge of adolescence and its involvement in teaching practice

Abstract

Knowing the adolescent is necessary in every teaching practice. We cannot see the student and the adolescent as if they were two different boxes in which we must fill them with knowledge, as if they were two entities isolated from each other. By knowing the students' individuality, we can identify a series of individual, family, social, attitudinal factors etc., which will give us many tools to improve our work in the classroom. Emotional and psychological changes, the search for personal identity, acceptance in a group, separation from parents, among other situations, are important aspects for the development of adolescence. That is why in this article it offers an analysis on adolescence, to know the changes that students present in this stage, as well as factors of individual, family and social order that will influence the student remarkably; and finally, a series of points to consider in our teaching process as the result of this analysis.