Chapter 1: Teaching Young Adolescents Recognizing and Understanding the Challenge

For me, chapter one focuses more on what we as educators need to do in order to prepare ourselves for our individual job placement. It talks about the different types of schools you could be in and the differences between a middle school and a jr. high. There are many different policies to learn that are specific to your school and a countless number of questions that you will need to ask yourself. Without the answers to these nit picky questions everyday functions in the classroom could be very difficult. This chapter also covers the intellectual, physical, emotional/psychological, social, and moral and ethical development of the students. There were also different strategies to use as teacher that help students better handle these developments. Chapter one helped me to understand the many different positions and placements that are possible in teaching middle school or jr. high. It also opened my eyes to exactly how different teaching middle school is from what I am used to learning about the lower elementary grades.