As we obviously observe as teachers, to be an adolescent is to be in a transition process where, as it is mentioned before, their thinking process becomes more complex and their emotions are stronger. This may cause some difficulties in teenagers to focus their attention on studying, for example. We as teachers need to be aware of these changes that these students are having because if we ignore them we can cause them a tremendous damage.

This is the moment where teenagers are recognizing themselves as individuals who have a special identity. This identity they are building is extremely fragile since they are particularly sensitive to every single reaction people have toward them. They are creating their self-consciousness about their growing process. Teenagers are changing in every aspect of their lives: physically, mentally, and obviously they are aware and concerned about how people and society accept them or not.

Since teenagers are in a transition process we, as teachers who are concerned about how to deal with those emotional unbalanced state of mind, have to be aware of some important details that we are going to present you now:

Self-esteem & Self-image: Teenagers are extremely concerned about how do they look to other people. It is tremendously important to them to be accepted by their closest group of people and to the society in general. That means that we as teachers cannot hurt them in terms of self-esteem, we need to encourage them to be themselves not to be what other people want them to become.

Ego: Students need to have a proper level of ego. They need to feel that they can actually do whatever they set themselves as a goal. The big issue here is that we have to help them to set themselves realistic goals in order to not let them fell frustrated if they by any reason cannot achieve those goals.

Embarrassment: We, teachers, must avoid, by all means, every single kind of embarrassment to our teenagers. This action could really damage and harm them in their self-esteem which is, as I mentioned before, extremely fragile.

As a conclusion what we teachers have to do is to give positive feedback to students that supports their beliefs about that they can do well in everything that they want to do. We have to be careful though, about those high goals maybe not so realistic because they can be frustrated if they are not able to achieve them, so the thing that we must do well is guide them and help them sincerely and give them the enough support that they need.