Aristotle concluded more than 2,300 years ago that "the young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
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Teaching in a Fishbowl: Put Yourself In Their Shoes... Does The Adolescent Brain Allow ... - 0 views
Beautiful Brains| The Committed Sardine - 0 views
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"We're so used to seeing adolescence as a problem. But the more we learn about what really makes this period unique, the more adolescence starts to seem like a highly functional, even adaptive period. It's exactly what you'd need to do the things you have to do then."
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Teens take more risks not because they don't understand the dangers but because they weigh risk versus reward differently: In situations where risk can get them something they want, they value the reward more heavily than adults do.
Pioneering Adolescent Development in the Digital Age: Encouraging a Positive Relationsh... - 0 views
How Do We Help Kids Make Better Choices? Let Them Practice | Edutopia - 1 views
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"Today's adolescents develop an accelerator a long time before they can steer and brake."
The Teenage Brain - 1 views
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he greatest changes to the parts of the brain that are responsible for impulse-control, judgement, decision-making, planning, organization and involved in other functions like emotion, occur in adolescence. This area of the brain (prefrontal cortex) does not reach full maturity until around age 25!
SpeEdChange: Schools that matter - 0 views
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People who've heard me talk about middle schools have probably heard me say something like, "this age group has a million legitimate things to worry about every day, and none of them are in our curriculum."
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