Description
Product Code: 1003784
UPC: 743452783120
Grade Level: 5-9
Media Type: DVD+CD
Product Description
Give students practical help adapting to the demands of middle school. Program presents strategies for managing time, meeting teachers’ expectations, utilizing school resources, and handling a changing social life. Demonstrates the importance of these self-management skills to academic and personal success. Dramatizes typical problems new middle school students may encounter and offers practical solutions. Suggests ways to cope with overlapping assignments, overprogrammed schedules, balky lockers, and new friends. Highlights how to balance schoolwork and extracurricular activities through long-range planning. Show students how to capitalize on the resources offered at school by joining extracurricular programs and by seeking help from a guidance counselor or teacher. Encourage young teens to take advantage of the exciting academic and personal opportunities middle school offers.
