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Benson, Jeffrey – Educational Leadership, 2019
Too many rules restrict teenagers' freedoms and development. How can schools straddle the line between providing safety and harmony for students, but also giving them room to make their own mistakes and assert independence? Benson looks at the problem of too many rules, and how it not only harms students, but also interpersonal relationships…
Descriptors: Adolescents, School Safety, Educational Environment, Standards
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Bernstein-Yamashiro, Beth; Noam, Gil G. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2013
This article describes activities that can be used with multiple audiences of teachers, administrators, or other caregivers regarding setting boundaries in personal relationships with students. First, participants must think about and discuss relationships that they experienced with their own teachers in the past and determine what aspects of…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Caregivers, Group Activities, Interpersonal Competence
Dykes, Frank; Thomas, Suzanne – Principal Leadership, 2010
For all students, the academic demands of secondary school are numerous. Students must be able to read and write in a variety of content areas; determine the importance of what is being said by the instructor; take notes in a format that can be used later for review; and keep track of their materials, class requirements, and daily schedules. Most…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Secondary School Teachers
Marin, Pilar; Brown, Brett – Child Trends, 2008
Adolescents spend a large proportion of their day in school or pursuing school-related activities. While the primary purpose of school is the academic development of students, its effects on adolescents are far broader, also encompassing their physical and mental health, safety, civic engagement, and social development. Further, its effects on all…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Educational Environment, Well Being, Comprehensive School Health Education
Wing, Stephen; Beazley, Hamilton; Fine, Theodora – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2007
The Surgeon General, the Nation's top public health officer, is appointed by the President of the United States to help protect and promote the health of the Nation. The recently published "Surgeon General's Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking" [ED496083] highlights underage alcohol use as a major public health and…
Descriptors: Public Health, Drinking, School Personnel, Adolescents
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Tolstykh, Aleksandr Valentinovich – Russian Education and Society, 1992
Examines the variety of informal groups of adolescents that exist throughout Russia today. Categorizes these groups according to their beliefs and behavior. Maintains that the situation of Russian young people today is a disaster zone. (CFR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Delinquency, Foreign Countries
Bergmann, Sherrel; Rudman, Gerald J. – 1985
Early adolescence is a time when students require adult assistance to become accurate and effective decision makers and problem solvers. Because of the fragmented nature of society, the family structure, and the schooling process, schools need to establish a nonthreatening environment in which students can discuss the issues related to growing up.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Class Activities, Curriculum Design, Decision Making
Gibbs, John C. – Moral Education Forum, 1994
Argues that effective sociomoral group treatment programs must not only motivate but also remedy the limitations of antisocial youth who would help one another change. Proposes a program with program implementation, outcome evidence, and a plea for program evaluation. (CFR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Disorders
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Dorman, Gayle; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1985
Discusses the necessity for schools to be responsive to the developmental needs of young adolescents in order to develop an effective learning environment. Analyzes the application of the Middle Grades Assessment Program to this effort, as exemplified in the case of the Francisco Middle School in San Francisco, California. (PGD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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van der Veer, Rene – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 1994
Maintains that a major theme in Lev Vygotsky's later research was concept formation or conceptual development in child development. States that Vygotsky argued that the acquisition of mature academic concepts forms the crowning achievement of adolescence. Argues that the view raises a number of criticisms. (CFR)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes