Cognitive Growth
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Middle School Curriculum
100

When dendrites in the brain go through rapid growth.

What is Blossoming?

100

Shifting and variability of emotions, influenced by both social and intellectual changes.

What is Mood Swings?

100

Students stay with the same teachers for multiple years, multi-age teams means combining different ages in classrooms.


What is Looping?

100

A plan that involves students in learning and incorporates students' total experience at school. 

What is Curriculum?

200

When brain cells that aren't used regularly die off.

What is Pruning?

200

Sustained relationships that promote sensitivity and concern for one another. Also enhances empathy and prosocial behaviors.

What is Interpersonal Relationships?

200

Having four to six teachers in charge of 100-125 students and they work together to make decisions and offer each other opinions.


What is Teaming?

200

This approach to curriculum does not integrate knowledge with other subject areas, is textbook and content standard driven by the teacher. 

What is Standard Fare/Subject-Oriented Curriculum?

300

During this process the fatty substance myelin, covers the axon, making neuron transmissions faster.

What is Mylenation?

300

This new form of thinking, has the adolescent become immersed in their own thinking, they assume everyone must be thinking about them too. 

What is Egocentrism?

300

A small group of students meet regularly with one teacher and have discussions based on personal topics of young adolescents. 

What is Advisory Programs?

300

This curriculum must have democratic principles and follow the five implementation steps for organization. 

What is a student-centered curriculum?

300

This curriculum approach has teachers choose the themes of the classroom, but the theme incorporates more than one subject area. Involves at least two teachers reaching common areas to teach together. 

What is the Multidisciplinary Approach?

400

This operational thought is classified by "What if" ideas, thinking both hypothetically and abstractly.

What is Formal Operational Thought?

400

Students feel pressured to conform to traditional or cultural gender stereotypes and/or roles. 

What is Gender Intensification?

400

These classes have more hands-on experiences and a variety of them for students to learn their passions.


What is Exploratory Classes?

400

This approach still has the teacher choose the theme, but they base it off of what they think would be interesting/engaging to the students. 

What is the Interdisciplinary Approach?

500

During this operational thought students can classify and organize objects, and understand reverse processes.

What is Concrete Operational Thought?

500

Members of an oppressed group regard certain skills and behaviors are not appropriate for them since they are associated with the dominant group/culture. 

What is Oppositional Identity?

500

Is considered a more personalized learning with different time periods, schedules and flex time built in.


What is Flexible Schedules?

500

Having students share about their lives, pairing students randomly, and base groups of students are all examples of this. 

What is student-to-student interactions?

500

This approach is student-based, students help the teacher choose the theme. Heavily involves student reflection. 

What is Curriculum Integration?

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