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How can students be taught to navigate and control their emotions via socially acceptable ways?

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How can teachers help students make better decisions for who they pick as friends or group partners in class?

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Also it´s important to note: ¨student learning will be more meaningful if teachers understand the young adolescent.¨

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Some incidences and events trigger emotions to the point of disruption of the learning process

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Because of emotional variability, young adolescents may be at high risk of making poor decisions

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Because emotions may occur suddenly without warning, self-regulation is difficult

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¨Stop picking on Sam" in front of Sam or other kids who aren´t involved.¨ This will make things worse for Sam if his teacher needs to come to his rescue.

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If teachers don´t allow for socialization time, 

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If teachers don´t allow for socialization time, 

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¨We are depriving our students of growth opportunities."

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Need for socialization is especially strong.

¨Since most of us don´t choose our families or teachers, choosing friends and a peer group takes on importance as a factor in establishing identity and independence.

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With emotions running rampant in the mind of a young adolescent, several that command the most attention include worry, fear, and anxiety. Worry over anything and everything. What may seem trivial an unimportant to an adult could mean the world to the child.

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Emotions can cloud our mind, and can thus cloud our learning. If middle school students are susceptible to their emotions, their learning is in jeopardy

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Social-emotional

12-year-olds: care more about peer opinions than those of teachers and parents.

13-year-olds: often quieter; like to be alone, moody and sensitive; anger can flare up suddenly (their feelings are easily hurt).

14-year-olds: Typically loud and rambunctious, are in a now it all" stage; often embarrassed to be seen with parents.

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From growing a foot taller over the summer to having a smooth complexion that turns into a cratered moons surface, physical changes can lead to burdening emotional responses

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Emotional development can be connected to other areas of development. Particularly physical and intellectual development.

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Young adolescents can be in constant battle with their emotions as they pivot between moody, anxious, angry, embarrassed, and happy