Sentences with phrase «about young adolescent»

I have been learning about young adolescent literature with a focus on teaching young adult books.

Dr. Harrison is a former middle school mathematics teacher in Brooklyn, NY and is really passionate about young adolescents.

«These statistics about young adolescents» poor academic performance suggest that many middle - grades schools are failing to enable the majority of their students to achieve at anywhere near adequate levels,» noted the Phi Delta Kappan editors.

In Part One, Stevenson: (a) describes the underpinnings of middle level education and establishes the context for the reader's personal and professional development as a teacher of young adolescents, (b) guides the reader in using shadowing and inquiry techniques as methods for observing and learning from and about young adolescents, and (c) presents the domains of development (i.e., social, physical, and emotional) that are characterized as «interactive.»

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Given what I know about young adults today and the adolescents that are now moving into young adulthood, I find Wuthnow's story here entirely convincing.

Of we are trying to warn adolescent youngsters about the dangers of promiscuity, I doubt we do it effectively by a TV ad featuring (to take one current example) a glamorous young woman who says she wants love but she is not willing to die for it.

Sitting with a group of adolescents and answering their questions about your marriage might sound scary but it is actually a really life - giving and enriching experience for the couples who volunteer and the young people are often amazed and inspired to see that marriages can last and that love can grow through a life time.

Diane Tanaka, Adolescent Medicine Physician, explains what young girls need to know about having sex with other girls.

She has a master's degree in biopsychology and is passionate about showing families with young children that Attachment Parenting continues to be just as important with older children and adolescents as with babies and toddlers.

When researchers questioned 231 young adolescents about their cultural values and experiences with peers, they found that kids from authoritarian homes were more likely to have experienced bullying — both as victims and perpetrators (Georgiou et al 2013).

Only about one - third of children or young adolescents who died from suicide told anyone that they intended to kill themselves.

This event focused on what we know about the causes, effects and treatments of mental illness, from young children, to adolescents, to middle - age and elderly patients.

Among those students, adolescents and young people who relied on gist measures of online risk - taking were more «protective» when asked about their intentions of engaging in future risky online behavior.

«The thing that surprised me is that only about 50 percent of young adults had continuous insurance for a full year at a time,» commented Carol Ford, M.D., FSAHM, president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and division chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of PhiAdolescent Health and Medicine and division chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Phiadolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

In a 2008 survey on the gaming habits of about 2,500 young people, Gentile and his father, psychologist J. Ronald Gentile, found that children and adolescents who played more violent games were likelier to report «aggressive cognitions and behaviors.»

«Based on the results of this study, either family functioning or caregiver's perception about the survivor's health can be targeted to improve competence for caregivers of adolescent and young adult brain tumor survivors,» said Janet A Deatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Shearer Endowed Term Chair in Healthy Community Practices and Professor of Nursing.

«The high frequency of brand placements in movies aimed at children and young adolescents raises questions about the adequacy of alcohol marketing self - regulation,» Cukier said.

They concluded «It is time to revise our calcium recommendations for young people and change our assumptions about the role of calcium, milk, and other dairy products in the bone health of children and adolescents.

Alameda and Pleasanton, CA About Blog Alameda Pediatric Dentistry & Pleasanton Pediatric Dentistry specialize in treating young children & adolescents.

Teen Dating Violence (TDV), also known as Adolescent Relationship Abuse (ARA), can be defined as violence and / or abuse among two #NotJustPhysical is a social media advertising campaign to educate young adults about the signs of teen dating abuse and where to get help.

Meridian, ID About Blog Zelus Recovery is a private outpatient treatment agency for adolescents and young adults who struggle with substance abuse and their families.

About Blog Youth Coalition is an international organization of young people (ages 18 - 29 years) committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels.

Arriving in theaters on February 13th 2013, the supernatural drama features a strong cast - including Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons and Emma Thompson — and a story about adolescent romance that could bring young people to the theater in droves.

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

Just when you think Red Dawn's plot is about as far - fetched as it can get, the movie becomes even more of an adolescent boy's fantasy by turning the six young men and a pair of new female additions (Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) into capable defenders of America.

In this year's other powerful Margaret Atwood adaptation about men abusing women — based on a true 19th - century crime — Gadon convincingly ages from innocent adolescent to (possibly) murderous young woman to manipulative middle - aged convict, adding layers, delivering chills and leaving just enough room for doubt.

Considering it took nearly a decade to bring the story to film, Haley Joel Osment, who talks about growing up on screen, would have been far too young to play the awkward adolescent along side the legendary Michael Caine and Robert Duvall.

An Incomplete Education: Trained for the elementary or high school grades, middle school teachers often lack knowledge about subject matter and young adolescents.

I have spoken often about how Union City schools provided for me a stream of high expectations during a time of transition from adolescent to young man, from a single, national, ethnic, and language identity to one far more complex and inclusive of those who now enlarged my experience in extraordinary and new ways.

Drawing on participant observation among, interviews with, and resurveys of the same people surveyed in 1999, she is now examining how the parenting, gender socialization, educational experiences, academic achievement, and academic interests they had as adolescents shape their decisions about work, transnational migration, childbearing, parenting, health habits, and elder care now that they are young adults.

Concern also is rising about the resurgence of gang activity in town, and the influence of gang members on young adolescents with lots of time on their hands during the summer.

Surveys of adolescents and young adults with criminal records show that about half have reading difficulties.

Last book you read that surprised you and why: I loved Kwame Alexander's The Crossover, a young adult book written in free verse poetry, about two adolescent brothers who play serious basketball.

Young adolescents entering high school look forward to having more choices and making new and more friends; however, they also are concerned about being picked on and teased by older students, having harder work, making lower grades, and getting lost in a larger, unfamiliar school (Mizelle, 1995; Phelan, Yu, & Davidson, 1994).

MiddleWeb is all about the middle grades, with great 4 - 8 resources, book reviews, and guest posts by educators who support the success of young adolescents.

Developmentally responsive Using the distinctive nature of young adolescents as the foundation upon which all decisions about school organization, policies, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are made.

The Identity Project gives young people the agency to explore their backgrounds on their own — a key part of the adolescent developmental process — so that they can draw individual conclusions about who they are and how their background has shaped them.

The store devotes about 20 percent of shelf space to books geared toward young children and adolescents.

I know about how young people learn and grow from my graduate work on adolescent development and learning, as an Outward Bound instructor, classroom teacher, school leader, nonprofit founder, edtech startup life, and as a passionate soccer coach.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with cAdolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with cadolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

Being a middle school is not about housing grades 6 — 8 in a single building; it is about addressing the unique developmental needs of young adolescents.

Each day, teachers are finding new ways to empower young adolescents with more and better information about their progress.

Ask a middle school teacher to explain why student - centered projects are a logical choice for young adolescents and you are bound to hear about the numerous ways in which these projects provide students with...

Many of the majors» negative preconceptions and misconceptions changed after the field experience, reflecting a more accurate knowledge and understanding about middle level education and young adolescents.

Many of these young adolescents joined my next seminar, Writing the Avalon Constitution, in which they developed a powerful framework for student governance at Avalon while learning about the U.S. government.

The adolescent ensemble drama about young people pursuing their dreams in a manga school!»

Most importantly, Francesca is passionate about educating the public and all pet parents and lovers to the very basic socializing needs of puppies and young adolescent dogs.

They fail to think about everything else that comes along with those traits (and that gentleness is often a learned trait not present in young and adolescent puppies).

A young boy, about 9, came over to us being towed by an adolescent Golden retriever.

The reason I mention this is because lack of owner knowledge about the amount of work required to socialize, raise, and train a puppy, is one of the main factors contributing to a huge national problem: the problem of adolescent and young adult dogs being «given up» by owners within the first year or so of having acquired the animal.