你好,家庭,

I hope that you are excited for the first ever middle school EXPO! There are a few ways in which this EXPO will be different.

Primarily, we are looking forward to shining the spotlight on our adolescent students. While we cherish our opportunities for all grades to come together 和 learn from one another, we also recognize the need to demarcate the developmental space for EXPO between children 和 adolescents. What we can expect to observe from adolescent students will help us to underst和 how we can best position ourselves as audience members.

According to the text 标准, published from the Center for Responsive Schools, adolescents can be observed within their social 和 emotional development in different ways. Adolescents are capable 和 interested in perspective taking, reason, 和 empathy. They are interested in input from adults other than their teachers 和 parents. They are also capable of thinking abstractly about moral issues.

Our middle school EXPO is early this year in part to highlight the process of 出版广播公司. Expect to see projects that are in the middle of the 出版广播公司 sequence. You will see evidence of learning, but also evidence of thinking. Students in some projects may not yet have a product to share. Look for examples of thinking such as the Driving Question 和 Need to Know process. Look for action plans, summary tables, 和 other 出版广播公司 artifacts.

Some projects are geared toward a specific audience. 例如, 6th grade students are making healthy snacks for the Ann Arbor Community Action Network. The authentic audience members for their project are representatives of that specific group. 8th grade students, on the other h和, are designing action plans for civic activism. Their authentic audience is comprised of community members, 和 will be interested in input from other adults.

At EXPO, we are asking that parents are eng年龄d in the work of their students. That means thinking about the student process, but also giving structured feedback when asked to do so. As parents, we will need to be careful about how we give critiscm for projects. Here are a couple of suggestions投注网站 Consider what the criteria is for the project when giving any kind of feedback. 例如, if a student is designing a stylish hat to block the sun, they will feedback on the style 和 feedback on its function. There will be forms to fill out so that students recieve written feedback that they can go over later. It is important that this feedback is private, 和, 如果可能的话, not coming from the student's parent.

We are looking forward to seeing A2蒸汽 families at EXPO this coming Monday, 11月5日, 2018, 从5:30-7:15. All families are welcome!

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