Adolescent Development and Implications Physical Development
Adolescent Development and Implications Physical Development
Adolescent Development and Implications Physical Development
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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
Girls at around 10 years of age after menarche have: Help the students understand the process of
growth.
Developmental Changes and Characteristics Implication to Physical Education
EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Adolescent Needs
1. Neet to adjust to- physical state, interest, parental • Use different techniques in motivating
protocol. students.
2. Affection • Socializing activities
3. Achievement • Provide a varied program for a sense of
4. Adventure accomplishment
5. Security • Satisfy the need for excitement and
6. Sense of well-being (Individual worth) adventure
• Make students feel at ease through
concrete instructions and established
definite procedure and regulation
• Be aware of abnormal extremes
on the individual.
It states that an individual learns a task as a meaningful whole rather than a series of
related parts.
His major emphasis is on the discovery approach which gives much importance to
intuitive thinking.
Advocated by Thorndike.
States that in teaching the school subjects repetition is not necessary in order to learn.
1. It is generally recognized that each learner has different pre-requisite skills as he attempts
to learn a new creativity. A complete diagnostic survey should be made of what the child
can not do and can do.
2. The teacher should have available the re-requisites the child has not yet mastered.
3. Students do not need additional practice to ensure retention but should be subjected to
periodic and spaced reviews.
4. The child learns in terms of his maturity, his experience background, and his own
purposes.
The child cannot learn what he is not ready to learn. The physiological maturity of each
individual child establishes a minimum age before which it is not realistic to expect, him to
achieve a specific learning objective. The child’s experiential background is also a factor in his
readiness for learning. He also learns in terms of his felt needs; he does not learn that which he
does not need to learn. Implications. Learning activities must be suited to the learner’s
developmental needs and interests. The teacher can stimulate readiness for certainlearnings by
providing appropriate background experiences. It is the teacher’s responsibility to identify
purposes that are currently meaningful to the learner and to motivate new and important
learnings.
To assist the learner in the acquisition of a particular skill in the instructional program the
teacher must be guided by scientific principles. The following principles are practical as well as
scientific: