For my 20% time project I am going to try and implant a program in the middle school that is similar to the ignition program at the high school. The translation from elementary school to middle school is bigger change, than middle school to high school. I want to get the older kids involved and have them talk with the incoming sixth graders and tell them how all the teachers are, and what middle school is really about. The eighth graders know how all the teachers act, and what middle school is all about. This would also be helping the eighth graders learn responsibilities that they would be able to use in high school too, they would be gaining confidence in themselves.
During the month of September, I have researched how some sixth graders go through the transition differently, and how they have attitude changes, I have also figured out some activities that can be used in the program for middle schoolers.
By the end of October, I plan to contact the vice principle at the middle school, and some sixth grade teachers, and also eighth grade teachers to see what they think of the idea.
