Sentences with phrase «traditional middle school experience»

For example, Mizelle (1995) found that students who stayed together with the same teachers through sixth, seventh, and eighth grades and experienced more hands - on, life - related learning activities, integrated instruction, and cooperative learning groups were more successful in their transition to high school than were students from the same school who had a more traditional middle school experience.

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These efforts occur in ways that allow students — or in our case, youths and pre-service teachers — to demonstrate creativity and have their perspectives valued in ways that few middle - or high - school lessons (and maybe even fewer traditional teacher education clinical experiences) enable.

To facilitate adoption, SBL's sequenced, hands - on activities use traditional «core» content and their personal experience to help learners of middle - school age and older construct comprehensive, integrated, permanently useful mental models of reality to guide thought and action.

However, the study concludes that «elementary and middle - school charter students exhibited higher learning gains than equivalent students in the traditional public school system» and «students in poverty and English - language learners experience larger learning gains in charter schools.»

Tall Pines STEM Academy's innovative model is ideal for self - motivated students who want to experience success outside the traditional middle school setting in a small group, hands - on learning environment with a rigorous curriculum based on teamwork.

Among a random sample of approximately 2,000 middle - schoolers, youth who experienced traditional bullying or cyberbullying, as either an offender or a victim, had more suicidal thoughts and were more likely to attempt suicide than those who had not experienced such forms of peer aggression.