ABSTRACT
As a future teacher you will face many challenging tasks. Knowing your students is one important issue; classroom management is another. Understanding the perspectives and backgrounds of your students and community and knowing the content of the courses you will teach all provide opportunities and challenges. In addition, your students are wrestling with their roles in the world, and trying to understand their growing and developing bodies as they leave childhood and become young adults. The purpose of this chapter is for you, the future teacher of adolescents, to consider many issues that surround student learning. By understanding how adolescents develop and how they perceive the world, you will be able to more effectively help them learn academic content, intellectual thinking skills, and interactive social skills. Throughout this book we will return to many of the ideas introduced in this rst chapter that pertain to learning, teaching, and classroom management. Our intention is for this chapter to provide a foundation for thinking about your future students that will allow you to develop an increasingly complex understanding of how to effectively promote your students’ learning.
