Social/Emotional Development
Physical/Cognitive Development
Effective Middle Schools
Safe Haven For Learning
Curriculum/Assessments
100

"Because I'm thinking about this, than everyone must also be thinking about this too"

What is egocentrism?

100

The stage of uneven growing

What is the awkward stage?

100

A structure where teachers move up with their students when they move up grade levels

What is looping?

100

looking at the potential harm or benefits of an action

What is responsible risk taking?

100

The experience of a whole at school, the plan for students learning, the organizing focus at school, and what students learn

What is curriculum

200

Increase in gender stereotyping with behaviors and attitudes

What is gender intensification

200

Most dramatic hormone in males

What is testosterone?

200

A program where every student has one adult in the school who is responsible for supporting the students academic and personal development

What is the advisory program?

200

Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

What are the steps for responding to crisis?

200

learning activities that are geared towards a specific subject area and the facts with in it

What is ubject centered curriculum?

300

When students see flaws in academic, social, and physical traits that they had not noticed before

What is low self esteem?
300

The part of the brain where the most significant changes occur during adolescence

What is the prefrontal cortex?

300

Changing the class length so students can learn longer and have more time to learn something

What is Flexible Scheduling?

300

Yelling, inappropriate punishment, threatening, pushing students to learn past their cognition abilities, embarrassing students in front of other students, and assigning extensive homework

What are causes of stress?

300

Giving students a voice about what they are going to learn and how they are going to learn it

What is curriculum integration?

400

When young adolescents have social interactions, develop relationships, and experience moral problems they have not ran into before

What is moral development

400

thinking about the way we think, feel, and act

What is Metacognition?

400
When teachers listen to what students are interested in and help them discover their interests while having it still relate to the curriculum

What is exploratory curriculum?

400

Anti-bullying programs, having supervision and surveillance, and building relationships

What is how to help stop bullying?

400

A collection of a students work showing their achievement in different subject areas

What is a portfolio?

500

When young adolescents have different points of view, experiments with different thinking, and search for personal identify in a group

What is the role of peers

500

A stage in Piaget's theory that is characterized by classifying objects in hierarchical relationships, understanding reverse processes, and thinking logically about concrete objects

What is Concrete Operational Thought?

500

An association formed in 1982, that outlined the role of middle school with the developmental needs of young adolescents

What is the National Middle School Association

500

Having a caring teacher, giving students a voice, letting actions speak louder than words, having trust, and building positive student relationships

What is a caring environment?

500
Have students reflect, ask students to create two questions (one about themselves and the other about the world), look at both lists of questions and look for connections, choose an initial theme, identify those questions that relate to the theme

What are the steps for curriculum integration?

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