The Middle School BrainVersión en línea This matching activity is designed to provide you with an understanding of the changes taking place in the brains of our middle school students and the implications those changes have for our daily interaction and instruction. por Carrie Hill 1 What is Happening in Their Brains> 2 Atypical Sixth Grader 3 Seventh Graders 4 Eighth Graders Beginning to actively monitor and regulate thinking (metacognition) Moving from concrete thought to abstract thought Starting to problem-solve, generalize and use deductive reasoning Developing the ability to plan and control impulses Reorganizing (unknowingly) their neurons, synapses, etc... The reorganization is hindering focus, performance monitoring and an ability to spot errors regard the teacher as the fount of knowledge and their unquestioned leader will stay with engaging projects for some time thinking more concretely than abstractly respond to and need concrete routines and expectations beginning to think more abstractly testing out their social skills craving and exploring their independence approval of their peers begins grows in importance many can understand and appreciate irony and adult wit (not sarcasm) seek out the approval of their peers more than that of teachers/adults prefer adult guidance to adult management pushing for greater control and independence
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