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Bushnell, DonnaLee; George, Paul S. – Schools in the Middle, 1993
A 1991 Florida survey of teachers and students identified five crucial characteristics of effective teacher advisors, including ability to care about students and relate to advisees' individuality, availability, and possession of a positive attitude and a unique advising style. The main qualification is enjoyment of children. (MLH)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Individual Differences, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Peer reviewedPyatt, Gill – Educational Management & Administration, 1992
Outlines current positions in the United Kingdom and the United States regarding pupil transition from elementary to secondary school. Presents U.S. findings as case studies from each state visited (New York, New Jersey, Kentucky, Florida, and Georgia), highlighting significant similarities and differences in organization and practice. United…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Education, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
George, Paul S.; Bushnell, DonnaLee – Schools in the Middle, 1993
A Florida survey shows middle school students' favorite advisement activities to be parties, holiday and special day celebrations, discussion, service projects, games, group activities, and freedom to choose activities. Teachers' favorites are student of the day/week, academic advisories, organization and goal-setting days, career exploration,…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Classroom Techniques, Discussion, Games
Peer reviewedFriedman, Madeleine – Middle School Journal, 1994
Teacher-directed content, immovable subject divisions, and rigid scope and sequences perpetuate mismatch between middle school curricula and young adolescents' needs. Teachers at one Florida middle school are experimenting with Coalition of Essential Schools processes such as backward curriculum design and units of joy. Curriculum becomes an open…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Integrated Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach, Intermediate Grades
Download full textBaines, Lawrence; Deluzain, R. Edward; Hegngi, Yolanda – 1998
While 96% of teachers profess to use technology, this study of 85 teachers in grades 5-12 in Florida and Georgia found that only 4% of teachers actually integrated technology in their instruction. The majority of schools had few computers, fewer Internet-ready computers available for student access, and teachers who had never received any training…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Practices, Faculty Development
Heeney, Margaret R. – 1996
Multigrade grouping is the practice of intentionally grouping two or more grade levels in the same classroom to enhance learning. It is becoming a much discussed and implemented alternative grouping practice in middle level education. This paper describes the implementation process of two multigrade "teams" in two Florida middle schools,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Curriculum, Educational Assessment
