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Transitions to middle to high school
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February sixth was the day of my last middle school game. We were playing our rivals , Ledford middle school. The first time we played them we only lost by two points. The first five starters for Ledford and our first five including myself were all standing at half court for tip off. The ref. threw the ball up and Gillian tipped it back to me.
There it was, standing in the distance, a tall gloomy gray-colored building. With a few splashes of blue paint added to the dull cement to add color to what would otherwise be a lifeless building. This building was non-other than the one and only Stoller Middle School. I never referred to it as a middle school but more as a prison, it was full of rules that were put in place just to suck away any possible fun from a child’s mind. Maybe I didn’t like the place because I was suspended five times from it.
When it comes to sports my family has many ties to Middletown High School South. In the Going as far back as the 1980’s when my Dad attended the same high school. He was a standout wrestler for the team and was given multiple scholarships to wrestle in college. My family name is everywhere within the trophy rooms and walls of Middletown South. I am the youngest of three children with two older sisters coming through high school before me.
Middle school is a formative time in students’ lives. There’s a mix between defiance, uncertainty, and hormones which makes being an adolescent difficult. Throw school into the mix and there’s social hierarchy to think about too. Middle school is also the time when they have the ability to make a choice in their social circles, appearance, electives, amongst other things. As an educator in middle school, there’s always going to be challenges in cultivating and nurturing students to their full potential.
My experience at Capp middle school is different every week and each week is a learning experience and an opportunity to grow in profession as a nurse. One particular issue that I have seen and I would like to find out more is how diabetic students check their blood sugar and how they inject themselves. As a nursing student, I have always been taught that I have to clean the site of injection as well as the site where I get the specimen. We clean these areas in order to avoid contamination of the specimen and prevent any kind of infection. However, the four times that I have been at Capp, I have not seen any the diabetic students wash their hand before testing their blood sugar neither do they use an alcohol swab to clean the finger
Growing up was complicated. My hairstyle resembled a coconut. My teeth were abnormally crooked. Honestly, I was a living disaster. At the same time, I was raised by immigrant parents.
This mission statement expresses the uniqueness of the adolescent learner. This mission statement alludes to support for social and emotional growth which is something that affects young learners between the grades of 6th to 8th. Middle school is a time of change where students are transitioning out of elementary school and into a new academic experience filled with new forms of independence and responsibility. Students are also experiencing new physical, social, and emotional changes. It is important for teachers to take into account these changes and to help students have a smooth and safe transition.
Middle school is a time where kids start to develop their own identity, build new friendships, and transition into being a young adults. Personally, middle school was a rough time; I lacked confidence in I was, and the fear that I wasn't good enough controlled my life. In seventh grade one of the girls I was friends with made the comment that I was too fat to be her friend, and I didn't deserve to be included in our friend group. As a result of being too afraid of finding new friends, who would accepted me for who I was as a person rather than what I looked like, I tried to gain the approval of the ones I already had.
The best part of eighth grade is the fun experiences you get to have with your fellow classmates and the excitement of a new chapter in your life approaching. People might think of school as abate, but really it is more work your eighth grade year then the previous middle school years because of pressure of high school approaching. Although some people may want to stymie you from having a great year emotionally and educationally, it makes you work that much harder. At the end of the school year, you garner your achievements wether it be an award or you reach your goal from the beginning of the year.
I also wanted to impress the girls by being athletic and funny. Realizing the impact of the people around me, I see how I became the person I am today. One aspect that did not affect me much in middle school was the media. Social media and mobile technology did not appear in my life until high school. I received my first phone in the last months of my sophomore year because I needed a way to contact my parents after baseball practice.
During the week of March 10th -20th, I went back home to New Jersey. When I went back home, I did my observation at Hawthorne Avenue Elementary School. This school runs from pre-kindergarten through the 8th grade. The purpose of this paper is to see what theory best fits with my candidates that fall under early childhood, middle to late childhood, and adolescence. Each interview that I did with my candidates were face to face.
I have never attended an elementary or middle school. Now before you assume that I have abandoned nine years of school, let me explain. I attended a small Catholic school growing up. It wasn’t defined as a traditional elementary or middle school.
It was a blistery day when I was born on January 28, 1997. I was due a month later, but that was not to be, as my mother Jill had to undergo a c section to have me. I was a whopping 5 pounds, and had to be transported immediately via helicopter from the St. Peter hospital to the Children’s Hospital in the Twin Cities. I had some lung function problems, but I eventually made it out of the hospital and back home. The doctors told my parents that I may have some learning difficulties, because I was a premature child.
In the duration of my middle school years, I maintained excellent grades, except I had just one issue that held me back from a satisfying life. That issue was the fact that friends came very hard to me in my middle school years. Before my struggles at my middle school, Trafton, I had a very productive social life in the Elementary school I attended, Roberts Elementary. Here, it was very easy to make friends and have a great social life, since no hard work was required as a kid. Middle school, however, was a great challenge for me.
The past four years of my life hold both my highest of highs and my lowest of lows. High school can be a very awkward time period in a person’s life. Four years ago, I made the intimidating switch from St. Mary’s School to Algoma High School. There were certain aspects of high school which made me nervous, but academics was not one of them. I learned how to be a responsible student in my earlier years, and school had always come relatively easy to me.
