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Leading According Age Groups

Leading Youth
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Physical Abilities

Youth or Adolescence is the transitional period between childhood and adulthood
 
At the adolescence stage in the life cycle, indivduals have accumulated experience, skills, and interests in many motor coodinations
  • They know how to perform physical task as running, jumping, balancing, and throwing
  • They build on what they have already achieved, according to their interest and to the opportunities offered to them

Social and Emotional Abilities

Moving from childhood to adulthood, adolescents often display a curious combination of the mature and childish.
 
Developing a sense of identity is not done alone but with cooperation and conflict with other people.
 
Interaction socially, both real and imagined is the mode through which youth intergrate body, mind, and feelings into a whole person.
 
Social involvement during the teenage years acquires more meaning and significance than it has had at any previous stage.
 
 

Peer Group Relationships
 
In youth development there are three different types of peer group relationships

o   Friendship: pairing off of two individuals

o   Cliques: individual members share common interests and a strong emotional attachment towards each other, more exclusive

o   Crowd: more impersonal and lacks the strong bond of attachment that cliques offer, common place for parties, sitting together at football games, and hanging out

Responsibilities of Recreactional Leaders

o   Concerned with  offering wider options for choice and participation in movement and a balance between competitive and noncompetitive movement expressions

           

o   Can serve as important adult role models to youth

§  Must be strong and determined, yet tolerant and judicious

o   Fun-oriented leadership rather than win-oriented leadership

o   Can encourage altering interest by being flexible and by helping to foster concepts of adequacy, self-respect, and self confidence

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All of the information above came from the book, Leadership in Recreation, written by Ruth V. Russell.