If a teenager experiences a strong emotion during a learning task, then they they will retain the information and learn more from the experience because they they will have set off a chain reaction in their brain that makes connections and impacts how the student thinks and relates the information to other life experiences. Hot cognition, whether positive or negative, has a lasting effect on a person because it requires such a strong response. It is the responsibility of the teacher to introduce their students to material they will find interesting and will be able to fully engage in. It should be something that allows the students to do some of their own exploration in order to defend their thesis or expand their understanding of the topic. This will lead to intrinsic motivation and will keep the neurons in the brain firing, which will allow the students to make more connections and decide what is most important to them and their learning.
Although it is important that students have a strong emotional connection to the subject, it is imperative that they keep their emotions to an appropriate level, as Goleman would suggest. Radical emotions, both positive and negative, can be distracting in a classroom (or any social) setting. Students need to remember that they can get their point across without getting heated.
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