The Importance Of Being In Middle School

It is a good idea to provide a separate school experience for middle school from the high school, because putting both middle school and high school in the same building will have a negative experience for middle school students in many aspects. Noticeably, the high school students and middle school students sharing the hallway is a bit destructive in some aspects of behaviors.

Throughout middle school, I've had many different experiences, talked to people and dealt with problems from students, to teachers, to the other staff members of our school. I couldn’t help but notice some things about these three years about grades, my learning styles, relationships, myself, different activities, and my hopes for the future.

Middle school was a lot of fun for me, I met a lot of new people and lots of new girls. It was also kinda tough in the beginning with switching classes and things and having so many different teachers and lots of homework from different classes and having to remember the room numbers of each class but eventually I got used to everything.

You have to be really careful because here in middle school you can get write ups really easy and tardies.

I am currently teaching 7th grade Literature, Language Arts, Social Studies and a few Extended Learning time activities such as CSI and World Cultures. My responsibilities include these classes and more. Our grade levels each have a day of the week that we will supervise the hallways, we also have a week every few months that we will supervise outside to make sure our students are getting on their buses and staying out of trouble.

Many students worry about how their middle school years will go. Middle school is a very important part of a student’s education. Middle school is their initiation into high school and could really impact their future. Many elementary school students think that they are prepared and can do well in middle school, but many are not ready. Also, students who do not do well in middle school tend to not do well in high school. One lesson I would like to teach elementary school students is how to survive middle school, which is important because it will lead them to a better future by being prepared, managing time, and knowing how to problem solve.

Ever since kindergarten, I've been a really great student. I went to Glider Elementary for kindergarten to sixth grade. At Glider I always achieved principal's list or Academic Excellence, which was an award for achieving a 3.8 Gpa or higher. As a student, I was never a big talker in class and always got my work done quick. For middle school, I wanted to transfer to Herman, but I ended up at Davis instead. In the beginning of the year I was really bitter about being enrolled at Davis, but by the second day of school I made a lot of new friends. Throughout seventh grade, the classes were very easy, and I achieved a 3.8 Gpa! Once eight grade year began, I had a bunch of friends already, and got enrolled in classes with really awesome teachers.

My topic of choice is eLearning within my school district, East Noble School Corporation. More specifically, within the Middle School. I am looking to answer questions pertaining to student resistance to eLearning. Using a qualitative approach, my design of choice would be narrative research. I would gather information gleaned from interviews with students.

As a student entering middle school, there are myriads of changes that can actually happen with the academics. Some students begin to rebel and care less about education when they reach middle school. I was the complete opposite. I had a plan to always get good grades and to participate in clubs and specific organizations, which meant that I had to get good grades. My academics have and will always be the most important to me. When I reached the seventh grade I was given the opportunity to go into eighth grade math and skip seventh grade math. I thought that it was a mix up because I thought that was not possible, how could a course be skipped? The counselor then explained the concept to me, my teacher had recommended me to take a test and

Up until seventh grade I loved school. I made A’s and B’s, had good friends, and actually enjoyed being there. All of this changed for me when I entered middle school where multiple schools from the area merged together to form seventh and eighth grade. Since I had done so well the prior year I had been placed in accelerated classes with kids I had never met before and boy would I be sorry. It turned out that I did not have the right clothes, a pretty enough face, nor did my parents have the money that it took to be cool that year and I was bullied. I had girls that would walk behind me and say “Paula, you’re ugly and stupid too” every day and for me I could not brush it off. Every day of having to get up and face these girls became harder

Over my life I have been influenced many times, but over the past year I have been influenced a couple times already this year. One of the ways I have been influenced was moving from Eastside (an elementary school) to the Middle School. Another way I have been influenced was making new friends that had gone to a different schools then me. The last way I have been influenced was by my family.

As my dad’s shiny, grey, car pulled up to the enormous building with a halt, I unbuckled my seatbelt with a jab. “Bye,” I groaned as he mocked, “Good luck!” Well that helped I thought. I walked up to the big, rusty, opened doors with the vice principal there to greet me. This was going to be a long year…

It feels weird not being the big man anymore I had a good run while it lasted. I accomplished many things in middle school, one is I passed all of my classes throughout the whole year. Another is I made all of my sports team (Football,Basketball and baseball) and played a lot of minutes in each of my 3 sports. Last I made a AAU basketball team which went on for most of the spring season I met a lot of new people through that and had a great time. I have accomplished many things in eighth grade and will continue as the road goes on.

Anxious, worried, excited, overjoyed. These emotions blended into one when thinking about entering a new, unfamiliar school. Me, the oldest of three siblings trying something completely new for the first time. Hopefully the emotions began to wash out. Hopeless isn’t necessarily the word that comes to mind now. Entering room 321 is one small step for me, a giant leap for my education. I wasn't tired anymore and everything is going the polar opposite of what is I thought would be happening now. This isn’t the place I thought it was going to be. Even though it is still partly a maze. No more feeling sick. I thought. Hopefully this day will stay fantastic. Middle school might not be the challenge I was expecting it to be. Might.

When I walked into class on my first day of first grade at my new school, I was bubbling with excitement because I was now attending a larger school and I was about to meet my new classmates. I had hoped and desired to make new friends and get to know everyone, but I was shy and afraid to introduce myself or talk to people I didn’t know because I was unsure of myself and who I was, so I didn’t have any real friends for a while. A couple weeks into the school year, I saw a girl at recess who seemed to be having a great time with the friends she had made last year in kindergarten. Feeling desperate for at least one friend, I gathered enough courage to ask to join. Luckily for me, she graciously accepted me into her game and introduced me to