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An age of change Young adolescence is a time of tremendous changes for children and many times these changes affect students at school as well as home. With the introduction of our middle school, we hope to provide an environment that will address the many changing needs of the early adolescent student. Multiple enhancements to our current program will be visible, including an increased emphasis on human development, fostering hands-on instructional techniques, increased time for physical activity and the arts, and the implementation of the Advisory Program. Pan-American Middle School recognizes the changes that occur in early adolescents and we will foster those changes in an educational environment, with an increased presence of our Human Development Program. This program addresses emotional and physical changes in students and how these changes can be embraced. We will offer middle school students a window into their own development and how this development will affect them in the future. We believe that the structure of this program can be very helpful to our students during the middle years and offer an insight into their changing reality. Meeting students needs Adolescent students are naturally more active and curious. We will create a learning environment that encourages teachers to use hands-on methods as well as experimentation and movement to capture student's attention. Students will have access to our newly designed science laboratory for more science experiments. Our staff is also hard at work on designing a schedule that will allow student's increased movement throughout the day at regularly scheduled times. This schedule will be designed with middle grade students in mind as we consider their amplified desire to move about.Another scheduling consideration we will implement is to increase student's exposure to elective classes such as physical education, art, computer and music. These classes have been shown to stimulate student's learning in the academic areas and they are critical to overall child development. Students will attend at least one elective during each school day and be offered additional opportunities during our normal co-curricular programs.
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