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An Effective Student-Parent Orientation.
Combs, H. Jurgen – Schools in the Middle, 1993
A Vermont middle school, a grade 7-8 union (regional) school, developed an orientation program to meet the needs of over 300 incoming seventh-grade students coming from 9 elementary schools in 5 different districts, plus a parochial school. The program is planned by a coordinating council and a student-guidance team; emphasis is on clear-cut…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools, Parent Participation
An Overnight Lockout: Building Teamwork, Making Memories.
Evans, Michael – Schools in the Middle, 1994
As school systems face more budget cuts, elaborate field trips are being axed. A Virginia middle school experimented with an overnight lockout in the school gym. Since seventh graders were already grouped into four heterogeneous teams for a pilot instructional program, these groups were maintained during the "gymboree." Each student wore…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Experiential Learning, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades
Tell Me What It Takes: Perspectives from Middle Level Educators.
Schools in the Middle, 1991
A seventh grade student in Nebraska asked for information about becoming a teacher in middle schools. The letter was forwarded to present and former members of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Council on Middle Level Education. Ten responses provide a broad look at the complex question, "What makes a successful teacher at…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Planning, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades
Marketing the Middle Level Team Concept to High School-Minded Teachers.
VonVillas, Barbara A. – Schools in the Middle, 1993
Participating in a transition to a middle-level school provides the most potential for professional growth within a given school culture. In this article, a former middle school principal shows how a content-oriented, somewhat inflexible veteran seventh-grade social studies teacher reluctantly embraced middle-school teaming and eventually…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Getting Involved: An Interdisciplinary Project on Homelessness.
Marcincin, Linda W. – Schools in the Middle, 1992
At a Pennsylvania middle school, an informal, cooperative effort to apply fractions to cookie recipes resulted in an interdisciplinary project on the homelessness. Embracing home economics, mathematics, art, English, social studies, and reading, the project incorporates the essentials of middle school philosophy: cooperative learning, team…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning, Grade 7, Home Economics
Breaking from Tradition: Using Learning Styles to Teach Students How to Learn.
Foriska, Terry J. – Schools in the Middle, 1992
At a middle school in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, administrators and teachers used the cognitive domain of the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Learning Style Profile to design "products" that helped compensate for underachieving sixth and seventh graders' skill deficits in mathematics and science. Success…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, Grade 6, Grade 7
The Delta Team: Empowering Adolescent Girls.
Hood, Marian White – Schools in the Middle, 1994
In response to adolescent girls' concerns about teen violence, rumors, grooming, careers, and equity, four women teachers and a woman administrator at a Maryland middle school developed the Delta Program. The program provides positive learning experiences, teaches social skills and conflict management techniques, empowers girls through mentoring…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Education, Conflict Resolution, Females