Catch my interview with educator and best-selling author Rae Pica, and middle school teacher Heather Wolpert-Gawron, on BAM! Radio’s show ”Studentcentricity.”’ ”Every middle school teacher knows that teaching adolescents is one of the most confounding aspects of teaching. Our guests join us to offer a helpful framework.” Here’s the link For more information about the adolescent mind,...Read More
Everyone knows that teens have a larger appetite for quick rewards than either adults or children. But up until now scientists have been uncertain about whether this tendency had any beneficial impact. Some have argued, in fact, that this propensity is maladaptive insofar as adolescents’ engage in risky behavior (e.g. joyrides, drugs, sex) to get...Read More
A new study reported on in the journal Psychological Science reports that high school students who were given a simple reading and writing exercise at the beginning of the school year designed to communicate the idea that social traits are not fixed but can change over time, were better able to meet stressful situations than...Read More
Today the Washington Post blog ”The Answer Sheet” by Valerie Strauss, ran an excerpt from my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students. Valerie Strauss: ”When people talk about making sure that curriculum is “developmentally appropriate,” they are often talking about the work young children are given...Read More
Here is a link to an interview I did with Rod Berger on edCircuit about how we need to pay attention to recent research on adolescent brain development as we reform our secondary schools. It is based on my new book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students. Printer...Read More
This is part 3 of a video series based on my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students. You can watch the video, or if you’re more of a reader, I’ve included a transcript of the video below. To see the entire 12-part video series I did...Read More
There’s been a lot of buzz in the news over the past few days about a humongous new longitudinal study being launched by the National Institutes of Health in conjunction with several universities to study the brains of 10,000 kids starting at age 9-10 and on into their early twenties using structural and functional brain imaging...Read More
In this video, I explore six key findings from recent research into how the adolescent brain functions and develops over time. To further explore these issues, see my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students. Below is the transcript of the video: Hi, I’m Dr. Thomas...Read More
I’m starting a new video series based upon my book The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students (ASCD). This is the first video, entitled ”The Passion and Promise of the Teenage Years.” For those of you who prefer to read a transcript rather than watch the video, I’ve...Read More
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