Cheltenham Ladies’ College on Understanding the Teenage Brain
Eve Jardine-Young, headmistress of Cheltenham Ladies’ College, offers insight into the teenage brain
Amongst the joys of teaching are the perennial company of young people and the fellowship of colleagues who feel the same. On days when middle-aged malaise and loss of faith in human nature start to rear their heads, even just one hour of reminding yourself why you came into teaching in the first place never fails to provide a restorative tonic to the soul.
Considering the many pupils I remember, whose professional lives beyond school are now unprecedently visible to the likes of me through their elective connectedness and social media activity (largely via LinkedIn), I can?t help but feel pride on their behalf, and excitement, in seeing their choices for further education, volunteering, training and employment. Decisions that seem clear and confident with hindsight ? what subjects to study, where to apply, how to have a meaningful impact in the world ? do not, however, feel quite so obvious at the time when one is in the grip of the angst so common during adolescent years, the years when greater confidence and self-knowledge are often yearned for by those who feel themselves in the grip of bewilderment, insecurity and ?overwhelm?.
Cheltenham Ladies College hockey pupils
Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s book ‘Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain’
One of the most enlightening talks I have ever attended was by Dr Sarah-Jayne Blake...
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