Working Adolescents

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Working Adolescents

• - Why do students have jobs?
• - How does it interfere with schoolwork?
• - How does it affect their performance in
  school?
• - What strategies do teachers use in helping
  students with jobs?

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Why do students have jobs?

• Car payments
• Car insurance
• Gas money
• Spending money
• Party money/Weekend money
• Cell phone

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Why do students have jobs?

• Parents made them
• Freedom/Independence from parents
• Spring Break, Vacations, School Trips
• Saving for college
• Boredom

• Teenagers want to have the ability to buy things
  they want CDs, clothes, cell phones, etc.
• Some teens work to get away from a bad home life,
  to escape for a little while.

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How much do students work?

• 5-35 hours per week
• Students work according to financial need, time
  allowance, or desire.

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Benefits of Working Students
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Disadvantages of Working Students
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How does working interfere with schoolwork?

• Students who work are either unable to complete
  school work because of lack of time or lack of
  sleep.
• They must choose which is most important
  studying or sleep.
• Working in excess results in students putting
  more effort forth in work than in school.

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How does working affect student performance in
school?

• Students lack of sleep greatly affects them in
  the classroom.
• Students who work do not always have the time to
  complete homework and may fall behind in course
  content.

• Students become unmotivated to do well in school
  because they are more satisfied with the
  immediate paycheck. They tend not to see the
  long-term effects of school.

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Teacher Strategies

• Some programs in schools have made collaborative
  efforts with students places of employment to
  benefit the student. For example, students who
  do not come to school may not report to work that
  same day.
• Allow some in-class time to complete homework.
• Give an outline for total student assignments for
  chapter/unit at the beginning of chapter/unit and
  give students plenty of time to complete.
• Create an individual contract with students who
  work. Teacher and student both have input in the
  creation of the contract. They both sign it.

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Resources

• Youngworkers.org
• http//socrates.berkeley.edu/safejobs/tc/
• Teenagers and Jobs
• http//www.pmct.org/perspectives/teenwork.html
• Are you helping your teen think about career
  options?
• http//www.vsb.bc.ca/programs/careerprog/studentfa
  milies/HelpingTeensSucceed.htm

http//socrates.berkeley.edu/safejobs/tc/
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Bibliography

• http//www.inside.bard.edu/academic/specialproj/da
  rling/adwork.htm
• http//www.ed.gov/pubs/USCaseStudy/chapte4a.html
• http//www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2002/G/
  20021591.html