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Responsive Practices in the Middle Grades: Teacher Teams, Advisory Groups, Remedial Instruction, and School Transition Programs.

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Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Epstein, Joyce L. – American Journal of Education, 1991

Responses from a national survey (Education in the Middle Grades) from 1,753 principals in schools teaching grade 7 highlight the effects of the following practices believed to be responsive to adolescent needs: (1) interdisciplinary teacher teams; (2) group advisory periods; (3) remedial instruction programs; and (4) school transition programs.…

Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Adolescents, Advisory Committees, Educational Practices