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Download full textHiggins, Margaret – 1993
This practicum was designed to meet the needs of elementary school students making the transition to middle school. Incoming grade 6 students from five K-5 feeder schools were receiving insufficient articulation from the new middle school to permit them to make a smooth transition. An intervention program was developed and instituted which…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Intervention
Horton, Janice M. – 1990
Stress is a part of everyday life for adolescents with puberty as stress affecting sixth grade students (N=27) was addressed in a junior high school with a program designed to reduce stress through problem solving. Two evaluation devices, the Barksdale Stress Evaluation and the "My Stress Level" Test were used for pre- and post-test comparison. In…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Obradovich, Letti Dintino – 1991
Preparing students for high school is only one of the many functions of middle school. It is expected that by this time children would have acquired the behaviors necessary to interact appropriately with peers and adults. This practicum was designed to help the low achieving and the learning disabled student (SLD) acquire appropriate social…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Competence
Cottle, William E. – 1991
This practicum was designed to improve communication among parents, teachers, and sixth-grade students who were housed in an elementary building due to school crowding. A telephone answering machine allowed students and parents to access information about homework, classwork, and upcoming events during evening hours. Additional parent outreach…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Homework, Intermediate Grades
PDF pending restorationNordgren, James L. – 1990
A music teacher used the Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation (MECC) study guide to implement a 10-week practicum intervention designed to increase sixth graders' retention of musical terminology. A total of 12 beginning band students used a computer-aided instruction program to review questions drawn from workbook materials they had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary School Students
Pettit, Nancy – 1994
An orientation and peer helper program was developed at a public middle school in a rural community to reduce the problems associated with sixth-grade students transferring into the school during the school year. Transfer students and their parents or guardians were provided with a video and brochure that explained the school's services, programs,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Middle Schools
James, Darlene K. – 1994
This practicum was designed to develop a transition program and social activities for sixth-graders to help ease the passage from elementary school and increase their sense of belonging in a sixth- through eighth-grade junior high school. The students were surveyed concerning their degree of self-esteem, connection to school, perception of…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities, Grade 6
