Health and Personal Growth Courses

MIDDLE SCHOOL the college school

Health and Personal Growth

Middle School students can take courses that help them develop personal, social, and emotional functioning skills. Several of these courses (Middle School Citizenship, Human Sexuality, Persoal Finance and Choices and Connections) are required classes that help students navigate the transition to Middle School and adolescence. Academic Lab Choices and Connections Middle School Citizenship This class provides organizational and academic As students grow toward The Middle School Citizenship support for students with adulthood, relationships can course is an opportunity for specific learning differences. In shift and new issues can sixth graders to become Academic Lab, students have emerge – some that have acquainted with the changes the opportunity to work on their forever been a part of growing from elementary to Middle organizational skills, have time up, and some that have arisen School. The class focuses on to complete homework or long- as issues in a changing world. three sets of overlapping goals: term projects, and can receive support in deepening their basic skills. Students will be expected to bring their assignment books and course materials to class each day and work out plans to complete their assignments or This course provides students with the tools to build positive and healthy interactions with peers, and with the facts they need for the decisions that come with adolescence. This course builds on the Academic: Students will learn strategies for organization and how to tackle long-term assignments such as the middle trimester research papers. projects. Sixth Grade Citizenship and Social-Emotional: Students Human Sexuality curricula will explore what it means Personal Finance and addresses such issues as positive peer interaction, to be a good citizen within a community. Personal Finance is a course designed to help students understand the impact healthy relationships, decisions about sex and sexuality, and drug and alcohol use. Leadership: Students will begin their journey towards leadership within our school of individual choices on Note: This course is required community (Pathways to occupational goals and future for all Seventh Grade students. Leadership) and beyond. earnings potential. Topics covered will include income, money management, spending Human Sexuality Note: This course is required for all Sixth Grade students. and credit, as well as saving and investing. Students will Students explore biological Professionalism and design personal and household facts, personal values, and Practical Skills budgets, simulate use of checking and savings accounts, demonstrate knowledge of finance, debt, and credit moral issues in human sexual behavior. Through a variety of materials, students study anatomy, adolescence, In this class, students will learn important practical and professional skills. management, and evaluate reproduction, genetics, We will learn how to write and understand insurance and personal images, parent/child professional emails, effectively taxes. This course will provide relationships, and parenting. and appropriately use the G a foundational understanding Open communication Suite (Drive, Docs, Slides, and for making informed personal with families and peers is Sheets), and write a resume. financial decisions. encouraged. Students will also learn practical Note: This course is required for all Eighth Grade students. Note: This course is required for all Sixth Grade students. life skills such as sewing on a button, changing a tire, and much more. 17