6th Grade Curriculum Guide for Parents
7th Grade Curriculum Guide for Parents
8th Grade Curriculum Guide for Parents
Characteristics of Middle School Students
- are young teens entering or about to enter puberty
- experience physical growth that can vary greatly from child to child
- have more developed abstract reasoning
- are developing a capacity for critical reflection
- have an increased attention span
- have great diversity of ability as new skills develop
- experience a stronger sense of peer influence
- still retain respect for parents and other adults
- find it very important that they are accepted for the unique persons they are
- have an increased conscience formation
- seek freedom, but still need structure
- challenge and question beliefs and norms of the community
- are able to be more reflective of themselves and their experiences
- place importance on faith tradition as an anchor and support when everything else is in flux
- need their questions welcomed, and need to be encouraged in their self-expression