Youth Culture

1. Youth Culture Anna McGovern Dana Kehoe

2. Getting to Know You… Interest inventories help teachers get to know their students. This information is critical in gaining students attention and building community in the classroom.

3. What is Youth Culture • Youth Culture – Young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture. • Young adulthood, comprising more than 30 million in the United States, is typically defined as ages 18 to 22 or 18 to 25. • Why is youth culture important to K-12 educators?

4. Generation Y • Generation Y – Born between 1978 and 1990. • This is a generation defined by technology and globalization. • Tulgan (2009) refers to Gen. Y as “Generation X on fast forward with self-esteem on steroids” • Perhaps the most tolerant generation in history • Narcissistic • AKA • The Peter Pan Generation • The Boomerang generation • The Net Generation • The Echo Boomers

5. Generation Z • Generation Z – Born between 1991 and 2000. • This generation shares technology with Generation Z but has grown up in a much more high tech world. • Have grown up with social media and are used to instant gratification. • Narcissistic. • http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-03-16-pinsky-quiz_N.htm

6. Beloit College Mindset List • http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J4HJ6EHb3CI • The Beloit College mindset list was created by teachers at the college as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation.

7. Our Students Mindset List • Think of three things that would be on our elementary students’ mindset list. These would be students born from 2002 on. • For example: The Twin Towers have never stood in Manhattan. • (Crazy, Right?!)

8. Implications for teaching: • The common theme in both generations is technology. As teachers, we must teach our students not only how to use the new technology out there but how to use it safely. • 93% of teens (12-17) go online • 73% of teens have (12-17) have profiles on social networking sites • http://arquiteturadeinformacao.com/2012/03/09/o-lado-cruel-das-redes-sociais/ • www.cybersmart.org

9. Adolescence • Approximately ages 13 through 18. • A very challenging time in the life of an individual and the family. • Emancipation from the primary family unit is the central task of the adolescent.

10. From Parents to Peers • During this time the individual shifts emotional ties from parents to peers. • Parents become more concerned with their child’s peers. • The attitude of the parents may contribute to alienation. • Why?

11. High risk behaviors often initiated during adolescence: • Substance Abuse • Sexual Behaviors • Suicide • Self-Injury • Bullying • Violence • Gangs

12. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll • According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey conducted in 2011: • Nationwide, 47.4% of students had ever had sexual intercourse. • 49.2% of males and females 45.6% students in high school have had sexual intercourse. • 66.9% Black Males and 53.0% Hispanic Males in high school are sexually active as well as 53.6% of Black females and 43.9% Hispanic females. • According to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey conducted in 2011: • Nationwide, 39.9% of students had used marijuana one or more times during their life. • Overall, the prevalence of having ever used marijuana was higher among male (42.5%) than female (37.2%) students; higher among white male (40.3%), black male (48.5%), and Hispanic male (45.0%) than all females.

13. Drug use in adolescence • Adults who first used drugs at a younger age were more likely to be classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse than adults who initiated use at an older age. • For example, among adults aged 18 or older who first tried marijuana at age 14 or younger, 13.0 percent were classified with illicit drug dependence or abuse compared with only 2.8 percent of adults who had first used marijuana at age 18 or • Teens who first used marijuana before age 17 were shown to have smaller brains and to be physically smaller in height and weight than teens who first used marijuana after age 17. Exposure to marijuana and other drugs at certain critical periods, such as early adolescence, may alter normal patterns of development.

14. D.A.R.E.(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) • This year millions of school children around the world will benefit from D.A.R.E.), the highly acclaimed program that gives kids the skills they need to avoid involvement in drugs, gangs, and violence. • D.A.R.E. was founded in 1983 in Los Angeles and has proven so successful that it is now being implemented in 75 percent of our nation's school districts and in more than 43 countries around the world.D.A.R.E. is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from kindergarten through 12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives.

15. Bullying • Bullying may involve teasing, taunting, verbal abuse, shoving, hitting, spreading rumors, or deliberately excluding someone. • Bullying by peers can have serious long-term consequences for young children. It takes a toll on both physical and mental health. An estimated 20% of high school students reported being bullied on school property in 2009, with a higher prevalence among females than males. (CDC, 2010g).

16. Bullying and Social Media • Phoebe Prince and her suicide: drew international media attention and put the focus on bullying in American schools. • 15-year old girl who emigrated from Ireland to Massachusetts brutally bullied in person and by means of social media in 2009.

17. Emotional Literacy • EMOTIONAL LITERACY is the ability to recognize, understand and appropriately express our emotions. Just as verbal literacy is the basic building-block for reading and writing, emotional literacy is the basis for perceiving and communicating emotions. Becoming emotionally literate is learning the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary of our emotional lives.

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19. Childhood • Childhood is the time when an individual begins school, when he or she is socialized and exposed to cultures other than that of the home, family, and neighborhood. • Faced with factors such as: • Social class and poverty • Children, Ethnic Awareness, and Prejudice • Child Abuse • Childhood Obesity

20. Childhood • Childhood obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. • Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure. • 1 in 7 low- income, PRESCHOOL age children is obese. • Children are not getting adequate exercise. • www.myplate.gov • www.letsmove.gov • http://www.nflrush.com/play60/ • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKSL3Kkl-RM&feature=related

21. Respect for All Week • For the 2011-2012 school year, the NYC Department of Education has designated February 13-17, 2012 as RFA Week in all NYC public schools. • During this week, schools will have opportunities to highlight and build upon ongoing diversity programs and curriculum-based instruction.  • Schools will also have opportunities to embark upon new initiatives that promote respect for diversity and engage students in meaningful lessons and/or other activities that focus on preventing bias-based harassment, intimidation and/or bullying.

22. Respect for all Week Activities • http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/OSYD/RespectForAllWeek/rfaweek2011_lehmanhs.htm • http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/OSYD/RespectForAllWeek/default.htm

23. Child Abuse • Defined as: • Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation; or • An act or failure to act, which presents as imminent risk of serious harm. • There are four types of Child Abuse: • Physical Abuse • Neglect • Sexual Abuse • Emotional Abuse

24. Recognizing Child Abuse • The following signs in your student may be indicative of child abuse or neglect: • Shows sudden changes in behavior or school performance. • Has not received help for physical or medical problems brought to the parent’s attention. • Has learning problems (or difficulty concentration) that cannot be attributed to specific physical or psychological causes. • Is always watchful, as though preparing for something bad to happen. • Lacks adult supervision. • Is overly compliant, passive, or withdrawn. • Comes to school or other activities early, stays late, and does not want to go home.

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