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Hanel, Robert R.; Norman, Kristine – 1976
Designed to be used in a cooperative effort between the school counselor and the classroom teacher, this guide contains activities for improving students' self-concepts. The following items are included: (1) a planned course statement; (2) six activities for improving self-understanding; (3) six activities for improving rational thinking regarding…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Class Activities, Grade 7, Guidelines
Matthews, Doris B. – 1983
A study examined multiple outcomes of relaxation training simultaneously in seventh grade classrooms. "Project Relaxation" measured cognitive (achievement) and affective (discipline, attendance, tardiness, and self-concept) changes with a program of relaxation training for 532 seventh grade students in 10 private and public middle schools in South…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Biofeedback, Coping
Reuman, David A. – 1989
When students make the transition from elementary school to junior high school, they experience abrupt organizational changes in their school environment. The hypothesis that social comparison processes mediate the relation between ability grouping practices in mathematics and students' achievement expectancies was tested in a longitudinal sample…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 6, Grade 7
Loudoun County Public Schools, Leesburg, VA. – 1989
The Loudoun County, Virginia, middle school home economics curriculum has been designed to meet the unique needs of the early adolescent. It is based on three major concepts: (1) basic skills; (2) self-knowledge/understanding/decision making; and (3) independence/interdependence. This guide on teen living for seventh graders includes a curriculum…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Education, Clothing, Competency Based Education
Boxell, Karen A.; Marlier, John – 1986
Intended for teachers of seventh graders, this communication skills program has two main objectives: (1) to develop in students a heightened awareness of the role communication plays in the totality of their lives; and (2) to begin to develop in students an awareness of their responsibility for their own communication. The program is the first in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Creative Writing
Rader, Martha S. – 1986
A project was designed to provide career development activities for selected educationally at-risk seventh graders in two target junior high schools in the Roanoke City Public School System, Virginia. The assumption was that career development activities that provide students with increased self-understanding, coupled with strategies involving the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Exploration
Crawford, Glinda B.; And Others – 1985
This life skills curriculum for seventh and eighth grade is organized according to major concept areas. These concept areas are defined by concerns/specific needs of the students. Part I suggests a scope and sequence for five program options dependent on time spent in instruction. Part II discusses use of the concerns approach. Sample student and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Change, Child Development, Child Rearing