Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School write by Patrick Akos. This book was released on 2015-06-03. Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With detailed examples of best practices from middle schools across the country, this book features research-based strategies and suggestions for transition programs. It covers the roles of school principals, counselors, classroom teachers, and the central office.
Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School
Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School write by Patrick Akos. This book was released on 2015-06-03. Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With detailed examples of best practices from middle schools across the country, this book features research-based strategies and suggestions for transition programs. It covers the roles of school principals, counselors, classroom teachers, and the central office.
What Parents Think
What Parents Think - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Parents Think write by Kaivan Yuen. This book was released on 2007. What Parents Think available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Middle school transitions can cause a decline in academic achievement and motivation in learning for many students. Low income underrepresented students are especially vulnerable to this transition. Parental involvement also tends to decrease during the middle school years. This qualitative study examined the elementary to middle school transition for low income underrepresented students, from the perspectives of parents. The study took place in an inner city middle school and the sample consisted of six parents, a study that cannot be generalized to other middle schools. Each parent was interviewed four times for the duration of four months and in-depth case studies were developed for each parent. The interviews focused on parents' perceptions of their ability to help their children with the transition, the barriers they faced, and the strategies they used. Parents, especially non-English speaking parents, found that it was more difficult to provide academic support to their children at the middle school level. Whenever parents could not provide assistance to their children, they first relied on their own network of friends and family, then they went to the community for help, and finally they approached the school for support. One practice that parents held in high regard was having consistent communication with teachers and children. Parents wanted a partnership with the school and their own children in order to help their children attain academic success. Parents reported that taking an active interest in their children's lives resulted in higher achievement and less behavior problems in school. Contrary to the assumption that parents withdrew themselves from their children's lives during middle school, this study found that parents actually wanted to remain highly involved in their children's lives. Many parents were willing to volunteer in the classrooms, but the school never asked parents for their help. Two major concerns parents had about the middle school were school violence and the decrease in academic achievement from students during the initial months after the transition. Parents were very appreciative of the strict environment and academically challenging demands of middle school, which they believe thwarted some of the potential school safety concerns.
Transitioning from Middle School to High School
Transitioning from Middle School to High School - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transitioning from Middle School to High School write by Anita Kartha. This book was released on 2016. Transitioning from Middle School to High School available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This graduate project presents a handbook derived from reviewing literature that students, parents and school counselors can use to ease the transition for middle school Latino students into high school. This handbook or guide describes the social, emotional and academic challenges that research has shown to affect Latino students, and provides a culturally relevant preparation program. This handbook can be implemented step by step in the final year of middle school, with school counselor and parent involvement, and will continue into the first few years of high school. Along with transitioning issues such as self-esteem, making and keeping friends (Akos & Galassi, 2004), setting goals, successfully completing courses, and college and career planning, research shows that Latino students have issues of family obligations and expectations particular to them (McGoldrick, Giordano, & Garcia-Preto, 2005). Latino cultural concerns, language barriers and socio-economic factors facing Latino students, and affecting their successful transition from middle school to high school are also included in this handbook. It also provides interventions that are school-based as well as techniques that parents can use at home to support and encourage the successful transition of their child into high school. The variety of strategies included in this handbook consider Bandura's (1989) theory suggesting that behaviors are learned through observing and imitating models, and Vygotsky's (1978) theory that stresses the active engagement of the social and physical environments in promoting cognitive growth. The methods described in this handbook involve the use of peer social support groups, parental support, school counselor academic guidance, and career exploration resources. Further, strategies to facilitate the development of a road map are included, which are intended to support a healthy self-image as well as academic success. Student achievement is promoted and encouraged throughout this handbook with guidelines aimed at assisting students in setting realistic goals and articulating a sound plan to achieve them. Within the steps outlined in the handbook, there is opportunity for periodic student and parent checkpoints where students and parents can reflect on the effectiveness of each step after the completion of each step and prior to advancing to the next step. School counselors at the middle school and high school levels can utilize these student and parent reflections to mentor the student while assisting students to plan an appropriate path aimed at easing the transition from middle school to high school and ultimately leading to success in high school.
Handbook of Educational Psychology
Handbook of Educational Psychology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Handbook of Educational Psychology write by Lyn Corno. This book was released on 2015-07-06. Handbook of Educational Psychology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The third edition of the Handbook of Educational Psychology is sponsored by Division 15 of the American Psychological Association. In this volume, thirty chapters address new developments in theory and research methods while honoring the legacy of the field’s past. A diverse group of recognized scholars within and outside the U.S. provide integrative reviews and critical syntheses of developments in the substantive areas of psychological inquiry in education, functional processes for learning, learner readiness and development, building knowledge and subject matter expertise, and the learning and task environment. New chapters in this edition cover topics such as learning sciences research, latent variable models, data analytics, neuropsychology, relations between emotion, motivation, and volition (EMOVO), scientific literacy, sociocultural perspectives on learning, dialogic instruction, and networked learning. Expanded treatment has been given to relevant individual differences, underlying processes, and new research on subject matter acquisition. The Handbook of Educational Psychology, Third Edition, provides an indispensable reference volume for scholars in education and the learning sciences, broadly conceived, as well as for teacher educators, practicing teachers, policy makers and the academic libraries serving these audiences. It is also appropriate for graduate level courses in educational psychology, human learning and motivation, the learning sciences, and psychological research methods in education and psychology.
