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Eichas, Kyle; Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Olsson, Tina M. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: Advances in knowledge of how to promote positive youth development (PYD) have significant potential to enrich intervention science. As part of a broader movement in the direction of a more fully integrated intervention science, PYD intervention research can provide practitioners in youth behavioral and mental health with an updated set…
Descriptors: Youth, Intervention, Science Instruction, Mental Health
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Sivenesi Subramoney; Eric A. Walle; Alexandra Main; Dalia Magaña – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Cultural brokering refers to the process of youth (i.e., children, adolescents, and emerging adults) from immigrant families interpreting cultural norms for others. Cultural brokering is not an acontextual, individual, or passive experience but varies by context (e.g., situational demands), is interpersonal (e.g., involves the broker and a social…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Immigrants, Parent Child Relationship
Doerr, Marilyn N.; Good, Gregg; Waski, Michael – NAMTA Journal, 2017
Using the water molecule as a metaphor, Marilyn Doerr presents a study of a Montessori high school that combines the elements of Montessori with International Baccalaureate (IB) and other institutions in the surrounding community that enrich the experience of the students. The pedagogy of the high school, she explains, must be based on an…
Descriptors: High Schools, Science Instruction, High School Students, Montessori Method
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Edwards, Susan – Middle School Journal, 2015
What is active learning and what does it look like in the classroom? If students are participating in active learning, they are playing a more engaged role in the learning process and are not overly reliant on the teacher (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 2003; Petress, 2008). The purpose of this article is to propose a framework to describe and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Middle School Students, Planning, Middle School Teachers
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Padilla, Michael – Science and Children, 1982
Physical, social, and emotional changes in early adolescents and their effects on science teaching are briefly discussed. A variety of classroom activities, allowing for importance of peer group by arranging both individual and group activities, and focusing on individual growth, development, and change are suggested. (SK)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Needs
Hechinger, Fred M.; And Others – Instructor, 1992
This supplement offers 10 articles focusing on middle school education. Topics include remembering adolescence, resources and teaching tips, active middle school students, adolescent development, challenges in middle school education, integrated studies, planning middle school special events, a writing-science-consumerism miniunit on popcorn,…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Book Reviews, Class Activities