This is a brief article highlighting eight (8) concepts on how to promote positive teenage behavior and independence from the book “All Joy and No Fun” by Jennifer Senior. This online article is written by Marie Schwartz (CEO and Founder of TeenLife Media), and it appears on the TeenLife website.
Type of Material:
Online article
Recommended Uses:
The article (and site) can be used by parents, students, and educators to review tips on promoting positive behavior and independence. Teens, parents, and educators can read information on education programs across the United States.
Pedagogically, the article could be included as required or recommended reading for a course in Psychology (or related field) or a parenting course. It might particularly be used to foster discussion.
Technical Requirements:
Web browser (accessed successfully via Safari, Chrome, and Firefox browsers)
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Visitors/readers will learn about specific approaches for promoting positive teenage behavior and independence.
Target Student Population:
High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Required or recommended reading for a course in Psychology, Family Studies, Child Development (or related field) or a parenting course.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
No prerequisite knowledge or skills are needed.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
The linked article provides a list of ways to promote positive behavior and independence.
This article highlights key concepts from a book. The concepts have solid descriptions.
The article is an easy, quick read. The content is not overwhelming.
Additional materials on the site include links to summer programs, volunteer opportunities, different types of schools for teens all over the United States, and blogs.
Concerns:
The article is not provided within a context of academic learning, such as Psychology or Family Studies. Theefore, it is not integrated with similar concepts or theory. Faculty who use the article in class will want to provide more detailed examples to clearly illustrate each key concept.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
The presented advice is helpful – encouraging all parties to remain positive. Specific suggestions are included.
It is clear that the goal of the article is to promote positive teenage behavior, and it appears to support parents of teens. This could easily be transformed into a learning outcome.
The content is presented in an orderly manner and would be a good supplement to a textbook.
Concerns:
There are a number of ads which surely support the site. The ads are off the to right and at the bottom of the screen – but they are somewhat distracting.
Faculty who use the article in class will want to develop an explicit academic learning outcome that reinforces concepts, builds on prior concepts, or demonstrates relationships between concepts.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
The writing is excllent, the links within the article are all working, and the article could be printed out and saved as a PDF to share with students.
A link at the top of the TeenLife homepage (the site that hosts the article) takes the visitor out to a Blog that is organized by topic.
Site visitors can sign up to receive regular updates, and registration is not required.
Concerns:
Certain resources from Teen Life can be downloaded but not without sharing name and email address.
Creative Commons:
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