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Middle School Curriculum

The Exemplary Middle School

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• Early adolescence is a unique and significant period in human development….the end of an individual’s childhood years…the beginning of youth or young adulthood….in a state of metamorphosis. No longer children, but yet not adults, they are in a world of their own somewhere in between.

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Three Phases of Adolescence

• Early 10 – 14• Middle 14 – 18• Late 18 +

• What are the characteristics of MG?

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Eight Tasks to Successful Development

• * Mature socially with both sexes• * Male or feminine social role• * Health of the body• * Independence from parents • * Preparing for marriage/family life• * Values and ethical framework• * Socially responsible behavior

• **Robert J. Havinghurst 1972

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“Puberty and entrance into middle school typically define the beginning of adolescence.” Roth & Brooks-Gunn

1999

• What are the differences between boys and girls?

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Adolescent Development• Average age of puberty dropped from 16 to 12

• AIDS is the 6th leadingcause of MG death

• Each day 3,000 MGsmoke their first cigarette

• More than half ofMG are overweight

(see p. 1 & 8 of textbook)

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Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences - 1983

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Spatial Intelligence

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Musical Intelligence

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Bodily Kinesthetic Intelligence

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Interpersonal Intelligence

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IntrapersonalIntelligence

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Linguistic Intelligence

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Logical Math Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence

• Self-awareness *Read emotions• Control impulses *Feels empathy• Maintains relationships *Social deftness• Self-motivated toward success despite defeat

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Stages of MG Moral Development

#1 – What they can get away with

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Stage # 2Where what is rightand wrong dependson who is involvedand theirrelationship

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Stage # 3 – The desire to please others and win acceptance – group approval is now important

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Stage # 4 – Need for social order beyond individual benefit and beyond approval of the group (very advanced

and rarely achieved by middle schoolers)

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The Major Task of Adolescence

• The struggle between identify versus isolation.• To develop an identity of value & uniqueness. • Self-respect – Relationships – Peers -- Intimacy

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7 Cardinal Principals of Effective Schools for Adolescent Success

• # 1 --• * Emotional support • and• encouragement –• • Particularly so that • students feel known• and cared for

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• # 2 --• Opportunities for students• to exercise appropriate• autonomous control • over certain aspects of• their own learning.

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• # 3 – Support for the development of noncompetitive, non-judgmental, and non-comparative ways.

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# 4 – Meaningful, rigorous, unfragmented, and socially approved curriculum, connected to the lives of the

students with expectations for success for all students.

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• # 5 – Organizational and operational strategies that yield a sense of personal identity – a feeling of smallness even in large schools.

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# 6 –Particular support for the growing number of students who needmore than the basicservices to beacademicallysuccessful.

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# 7 – Constructivist-style, active, social, experiental classroom learning experiences

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• Summary –• The development of a sense of identity may

be the central task of early adolescence.

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Many millions of young adolescents are at risk of failing to craft such an identity and, consequently,

are failing in middle school.

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Middle schools can make a big difference in the degree of success such students

experience.

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My parents keep asking how school was. It’s like saying, “How was that drive-by shooting? You don’t care….You’re lucky you got out alive.” --XxDailyDreamsX

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• Look at all the little girlstrying to be Beautifulbecause if your anything elseyou wont survive -- XxDailyDreamsX

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Middle School = DRAMA to the 10th Power….Squared !

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• All materials and quotes are adapted from “The Exemplary Middle School” (3rd edition) by Paul S. George and William M. Alexander

• Thomson-Wadsworth Publishers 2003