Blog - Insights and ideas to empower teenage girls

Teenage girls face a lot of pressure, whether that’s feeling a need to “fit in”, navigating friendships, keeping up at school, dealing with family difficulties, social media and so much more.  Due to these pressures, they often doubt themselves and their abilities,...

As a teacher building resilience for teen girls is a core issue. Empowering girls to handle the many pressures of teenage life, so they are in the best position to make good choices for themselves, build their self-belief and progress well at school. A key aspect of...

Teen girls so often lack confidence in themselves. As their teacher you wish they had a deep well of self-belief, but sadly it’s not a simple “switch” that can be turned on. Building girls’ confidence at school is a step-by-step process, and in this blog I share three...

Do you feel both frustrated and concerned that so many girls in your classes are constantly worried about their appearance? That this preoccupation with how they look affects their concentration in the class-room? Even that their self-consciousness about their bodies holds them back from putting their hand up?

Many girls struggle to see the connection between their long-term goals and their day-to-day choices. In the ‘Goals and aspirations’ module of the Building Resilience programme I support teenage girls to define their own goal, make a plan to achieve it – and then reflect on what they are doing on a daily basis to make progress on their plan. This is an effective way to raise aspiration, and contribute to increasing motivation in class.

Strong, healthy, fun friendships are such a blessing in life.  Friends who know us better than we know ourselves.  Friends we can count on.  Friends that we share life’s rich experiences with.  BUT the reality for most teenagers is the very opposite of this. Teen...

With exam season upon us, many young people are experiencing teenage exam anxiety. And understandably so. As a teacher you want to support them to handle these feelings, so that they are able to apply themselves in the revision period, and focus in the exams. So they...

Many schools have embraced a Growth Mindset approach to teaching and learning over the last few years. At Confident Teens we believe it has a central role in supporting teen girls to build their resilience, confidence and belief in themselves. The central premise of Growth Mindset is believing that we are all capable of developing new skills. And what’s key is the effort we put in ourselves and the strategies we use in our learning and development.