Lesson 1: Developmental Tasks and Challenges during Adolescence Lesson

2: Factors Affecting Period of Adolescence.

At the end of this module, you are expected to achieve the following
objectives for this session:

 Differentiate various developmental tasks according to developmental stage;

 Evaluate one’s development in accordance to the appropriate task to be developed;
 Plan for an individual coping mechanism to face challenges as an adolescent;
 Identify factors that affects in the development of an adolescent;
 Examine one’s development with the influenced of the significant person’s during
adolescence;
 Show appreciation to the significant person who contributed in their development as an
adolescent.; and
 Display sincerity in accomplishing all exercises in this module and maintain a journal.

Lesson 1: Developmental Tasks and Challenges during Adolescence

WHAT I KNOW

Directions: Read and analyze the questions comprehensively. Choose and write the letter and
word of the best answer of the following questions.

1. What do you call in the period between puberty and adulthood in human development
that typically falls between the ages of 13 and 19?
a. pre-adolescence b. pubescence
c. senescence d. adolescence
2. What is the term for a set of people who share a particular statistical or demographic
characteristic?
a. gang b. group
c. cohort d. peer group
3. What is adolescence?
a. A period of development that occurs after childhood but before adulthood
b. A period of development that occurs before childhood but after adulthood
c. A period in which development is stagnant
d. None of the options are correct
4. Which of the following is not a characteristic of early adolescence?
a. Puberty usually begins
b. Relationships with family members take precedence over relationships with friends.
c. Sexual curiosity is expressed through admiration of celebrities, teen idols, and
musicians.
d. Individuals start to engage in risky behaviors such as experimenting with smoking.
5. What change is involved in the transition from child to adult?
a. rights b. responsibilities
c. duties d. All of the options are correct

6. What do you call to the total number of people born and living at about the same time.
a. class b. generation
 c. peer group d. gang

WHAT’S IN
Directions: Read and reflect in each line of the poem.

Children Learn What They Live by Dorothy Law Nolte, Ph.D

If children live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight.
If children live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive.
If children live with pity, they learn to feel sorry for themselves.
If children live with ridicule, they learn to feel shy.
If children live with jealousy, they learn to feel envy.
If children live with shame, they learn to feel guilty.
If children live with encouragement, they learn confidence.
If children live with tolerance, they learn patience.
If children live with praise, they learn appreciation.
If children live with acceptance, they learn to love.
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.
If children live with recognition, they learn it is good to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn generosity.
If children live with honesty, they learn truthfulness.
If children live with fairness, they learn justice.
If children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect.
If children live with security, they learn to have faith in themselves and in those about them.
If children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live.

Factors Affecting Period of Adolescence

1. Generation Gap: It is the adolescent who happens to be the most affected because of
generation gap. The adolescent lives in the peerage company, representing a
changing society, a society in a state of flux. The adolescent is still not matured
enough to have developed his own personality to assert his views or attitudes. The society
of the adults has ever been ignoring the ideas and the views of the adolescents,
entailing a constant struggle between an established society and the society laboring to
be emerged. The generation gap is apparently perceivable in the clash between the
adolescents and the established society of the adults.
2. Emotional Instability: The period of adolescence is a period of difficulty also because of
emotional instability. During the period one moves fast towards the climax of
development— physical, mental and emotional, one has to traverse through a period of fast
changes also. An adolescent happens to be very emotional; very sensitive. Sometimes, gets
nervous through the ebb and flows of emotions. He is having more of self-
consciousness, and when he feels his self to have been hurt, he loses control over himself;
he may either get very upset, or, may grow nervous when he finds the entire situation to be
against him. The adolescent should be treated with sympathy and sensitivity.
3. Career Consciousness: During the latter years of adolescence, as one proceeds towards
adulthood, one starts feeling concern about one’s career. The selection of courses and
subjects is made with the targeted career in mind. The adolescent attains the adult level
 of cognitive development before he or she is actually adult. Because of this
development, an adolescent understands where the best chances for his bright career
lies; and how he needs to prepare himself for such a career.
4. Treating the Adolescents: Adolescence is a period of great importance as it is the period of
fast and vast development in all fields—physical, mental and emotional. It is through
adolescence that a child grows to full adulthood. Nevertheless, it is a period of storm and
stress that needs a very sensible and sensitive handling of the adolescent is required.
5. Good Literature: Interest in reading rapidly grows during adolescence. This interest should
be further inculcated by the adults of the family, and teachers of the school. If during this
period, one does not develop interest in reading, it would hinder one’s scholastic
progress. Only such students can grow into eminent scholars who are voracious
readers. But equally important is the fact that the children should read only the good books,
with contents which can instill wholesome and useful ideas and feelings into their fast
growing and highly impressionable minds.
6. Socialization: According to Piaget, the years when one reaches to the apex level of
cognitive development, are the years of adolescence. In achieving this stage, socialization
has its very important contribution to make. Hence, it is for the parents and teachers to see
that the growing child gets a very suitable social milieu where he can indulge himself into a
variety of activities offering occasions for rich interactions. The cognitive and moral
development has very positive correlation with the social milieu of an individual.
Students come in contact with one another while indulging in curricular and co-
curricular activities such as games, sports, scouting, outing, excursions or tours or
picnic and so on. The parents and teachers should provide guidance to the adolescents
in making suitable choice of social circles. The impact of teachers, and, of some other adults
that the adolescent comes in contact with, also happens to be very important. But the
greatest impact happens to be that of the peer-group.

Activity I - Directions: In relation to your answers in portfolio no. 6, let us evaluate

how their influences help you develop as an adolescent. Below is a table for you to evaluate
their influences according to the following aspects.
 Activity 2 - Directions: Assess the influences that they have contributed to your development
as an adolescent. Distinguish between the positive and negative influences that those
significant people have contributed in you. Write all the positive influences inside the
treasure box while inside the trash bin the negative influences.

1. Why do you think why you should have to put in the treasure box those positive influences
they contributed to your development as an adolescent?
2. Why you should put in the trash bin those negative influences?
3. What do you need in order to identify the positive and negative influences?
4. If you are to choose among those significant people, who among them and why?

Activity 3 Directions: Choose among those you identified as significant individual who
contributed much of the positive influences in your development as an adolescent. Compose
a free verse poem expressing your gratefulness to the very significant person who touches
your life.
RUBRICS:
1. Ideas are clear, deep, and meaningful. Has an emotional impact on reader – 60 pts
2. Line breaks enhance the sound, meaning, and rhythm of the poem – 20 pts
3. Poetic language is incorporated effectively to enhance meaning. (alliteration, personification, metaphor, simile, assonance,
etc.) – 20 pts
TOTAL SCORE – 100 pts

WHAT I CAN DO
Directions: Analyze each picture below and write 1 or 2 statement on how you can develop
yourself positively with them.
ASSESSMENT

Directions: For each item below, write the word TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE if the
statement is false.

Name: Grade & Section: _ _

Date: _ Score: _ _
Test I TRUE or FALSE
 1. Learning reinforcement
can leads an individual to gain
maturity.
2. Rich kid can have a better
education than the less
fortunate.
3. The schools are one of the
factors affecting a child’s
development.
4. In child’s development, it
is the family has the most
profound impact.
5. A balanced diet is essential
for the development of the brain
and
body.
6. A hormone helps in the
development of the human
person.
7. Outdoor play exposes the
child to microbes that helps in
development.
8. The place the child lives
greatly influenced his/her
development.
9. Sexes do not affect much
in the development of the child.
10. Significant people of the
child contribute many
influences in
his/her development
Test I - TRUE or FALSE

1. Learning reinforcement can leads an individual to gain maturity.

2. Rich kid can have a better education than the less fortunate.
3. The schools are one of the factors affecting a child’s development.
4. In child’s development, it is the family has the most profound impact.
5. A balanced diet is essential for the development of the brain and body.
6. A hormone helps in the development of the human person.
7. Outdoor play exposes the child to microbes that helps in development.
8. The place the child lives greatly influenced his/her development.
9. Sexes do not affect much in the development of the child.
10. Significant people of the child contribute many influences in his/her development.

1. A negative person has its fair

share of influences in child’s
development.
12. Few aspects of our
physical appearance is
influenced by
heredity.
13. Exposing yourself to
successful persons can open
opportunities
for your development.
14. Today’s social media
feeds can often lead to your
development.
15. An individual do have
control over the factors
affecting his/her
development.
11. A negative person has its fair share of influences in child’s development.
12. Few aspects of our physical appearance is influenced by heredity.
13. Exposing yourself to successful persons can open opportunities for your development.
14. Today’s social media feeds can often lead to your development.
15. An individual do have control over the factors affecting his/her development.

7. Emotional Instability:
8.
9. The period of adolescence
is a period of difficulty also
because of emotional
10. instability. During the
period one moves fast
towards the climax of
development—
11. physical, mental and
emotional, one has to
traverse through a period of
fast changes
12. also. An adolescent
happens to be very
emotional; very sensitive.
Sometimes, gets
13. nervous through the
ebb and flows of
emotions. He is having
more of self-
14. consciousness, and
when he feels his self to
have been hurt, he loses
control over
15. himself; he may either
get very upset, or, may grow
nervous when he finds the
entire
16. situation to be against
him. The adolescent
 should be treated with
sympathy and
17. sensitivity.
18. 3. Career
Consciousness:
19.
20. During the latter years
of adolescence, as one
proceeds towards
adulthood,
21. one starts feeling
concern about one’s career.
The selection of courses and
subjects
22. is made with the
targeted career in mind.
The adolescent attains the
adult level of
23. cognitive development
before he or she is
actually adult. Because of
this
24. development, an
adolescent understands
where the best chances
for his bright
25. career lies; and how he
needs to prepare himself for
such a career
26. Emotional Instability:
27.
28. The period of
adolescence is a period of
difficulty also because of
emotional
29. instability. During the
period one moves fast
towards the climax of
development—
30. physical, mental and
emotional, one has to
traverse through a period of
fast changes
31. also. An adolescent
happens to be very
emotional; very sensitive.
Sometimes, gets
32. nervous through the
ebb and flows of
emotions. He is having
more of self-
33. consciousness, and
when he feels his self to
have been hurt, he loses
control over
34. himself; he may either
get very upset, or, may grow
 nervous when he finds the
entire
35. situation to be against
him. The adolescent
should be treated with
sympathy and
36. sensitivity.
37. 3. Career
Consciousness:
38.
39. During the latter years
of adolescence, as one
proceeds towards
adulthood,
40. one starts feeling
concern about one’s career.
The selection of courses and
subjects
41. is made with the
targeted career in mind.
The adolescent attains the
adult level of
42. cognitive development
before he or she is
actually adult. Because of
this
43. development, an
adolescent understands
 where the best chances
for his bright
44. career lies; and how he
needs to prepare himself for
such a caree
45. Emotional Instability:
46.
47. The period of
adolescence is a period of
difficulty also because of
emotional
48. instability. During the
period one moves fast
towards the climax of
development—
49. physical, mental and
emotional, one has to
traverse through a period of
fast changes
50. also. An adolescent
happens to be very
emotional; very sensitive.
Sometimes, gets
51. nervous through the
ebb and flows of
emotions. He is having
more of self-
52. consciousness, and
when he feels his self to
 have been hurt, he loses
control over
53. himself; he may either
get very upset, or, may grow
nervous when he finds the
entire
54. situation to be against
him. The adolescent
should be treated with
sympathy and
55. sensitivity.
56. 3. Career
Consciousness:
57.
58. During the latter years
of adolescence, as one
proceeds towards
adulthood,
59. one starts feeling
concern about one’s career.
The selection of courses and
subjects
60. is made with the
targeted career in mind.
The adolescent attains the
adult level of
61. cognitive development
before he or she is
 actually adult. Because of
this
62. development, an
adolescent understands
where the best chances
for his bright
63. career lies; and how he
needs to prepare himself for
such a career
64. Emotional Instability:
65.
66. The period of
adolescence is a period of
difficulty also because of
emotional
67. instability. During the
period one moves fast
towards the climax of
development—
68. physical, mental and
emotional, one has to
traverse through a period of
fast changes
69. also. An adolescent
happens to be very
emotional; very sensitive.
Sometimes, gets
70. nervous through the
ebb and flows of
 emotions. He is having
more of self-
71. consciousness, and
when he feels his self to
have been hurt, he loses
control over
72. himself; he may either
get very upset, or, may grow
nervous when he finds the
entire
73. situation to be against
him. The adolescent
should be treated with
sympathy and
74. sensitivity.
75. 3. Career
Consciousness:
76.
77. During the latter years
of adolescence, as one
proceeds towards
adulthood,
78. one starts feeling
concern about one’s career.
The selection of courses and
subjects
79. is made with the
targeted career in mind.
The adolescent attains the
adult level of
 80. cognitive development
before he or she is
actually adult. Because of
this
81. development, an
adolescent understands
where the best chances
for his bright
82. career lies; and how he
needs to prepare himself for
such a career
Emotional Instability:
The period of adolescence is a
period of difficulty also because
of emotional
instability. During the period
one moves fast towards the
climax of development—
physical, mental and emotional,
one has to traverse through a
period of fast changes
also. An adolescent happens to
be very emotional; very
sensitive. Sometimes, gets
nervous through the ebb and
flows of emotions. He is
having more of self-
consciousness, and when he
feels his self to have been hurt,
he loses control over
himself; he may either get very
upset, or, may grow nervous
when he finds the entire
situation to be against him.
The adolescent should be
treated with sympathy and
sensitivity.
3. Career Consciousness:
During the latter years of
adolescence, as one proceeds
towards adulthood,
one starts feeling concern about
one’s career. The selection of
courses and subjects
is made with the targeted
career in mind. The adolescent
attains the adult level of
cognitive development before
he or she is actually adult.
Because of this
development, an adolescent
understands where the best
chances for his bright
career lies; and how he needs to
prepare himself for such a
career Emotional Instability: The period of adolescence is a period of difficulty also because
of emotional instability. During the period one moves fast towards the climax of development—
physical, mental and emotional, one has to traverse through a period of fast changes also. An adolescent
happens to be very emotional; very sensitive. Sometimes, gets nervous through the ebb and flows of
emotions. He is having more of self- consciousness, and when he feels his self to have been hurt, he
loses control over himself; he may either get very upset, or, may grow nervous when he finds the entire
situation to be against him. The adolescent should be treated with sympathy and sensitivity. 3.
Career Consciousness: During the latter years of adolescence, as one proceeds towards adulthood,
one starts feeling concern about one’s career. The selection of courses and subjects is made with the
targeted career in mind. The adolescent attains the adult level of cognitive development before he
or she is actually adult. Because of this development, an adolescent understands where the best
chances for his bright career lies; and how he needs to prepare himself for such a career