Early Adolescence
Teachers' stories for the Early Adolescence Phase of Development.
Early Adolescence Phase of Development
Typically Years 7 - 10
In early adolescence students:
- often align strongly with their peer group.
- may begin to question established conventions, practices and values.
- extend their interests beyond their own communities and begin to develop concerns about wider issues.
- consider the natural, social and technological world, how it impacts on them personally and how it can help them in their current and future lives.
- begin to develop an interest in knowledge for its own sake or for the personal satisfaction it provides.
- assume increased responsibilities, develop decision making skills, explore values and further refine their social and collaborative work skills.
Learning and teaching programs:
- provide opportunities for students to participate in important forms of decision making within the classroom and school and to work with others.
- allow students to assume increased responsibilities, develop decision making skills, explore values and further refine their social and collaborative work skills.
- encourage students to see the links between areas of learning and the interconnectedness of various fields of human endeavour.
- enabling students to see themselves as the recipients of particular social, intellectual, linguistic, artistic and technological heritages.
- encourage an open and questioning learning environment with students exploring other ways of thinking.
- encourage students to examine world views and to see themselves as active participants.
- enable students to draw on increasingly diverse and complex sources of information that facilitate comparison, contrast, synthesis, questioning and critiquing of information.
Curriculum Framework, p. 31 |
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