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Mace's Lane Staff focus their energy and resources on developing effective learning communities...groups of students and teachers who work together to address the instructional and curricular program. These instructional teams are a unique part of the middle school experience for each child. They allow students the opportunity to grow physically and academically under the caring and watchful eyes of not just one teacher, as in the elementary school experience, but under the professional eyes of three or four teachers. The team approach stresses organization and time management while nurturing creativity and building a strong foundation for success.
The middle school organization, program structure and the curriculum are designed to stress mastery of basic skills and essential concepts, to equip sixth, seventh and eighth graders for future academic explorations and responsible decision-making skills. Mace's Lane strives to address the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual developmental milestones that confront this particular age group. Typically, middle school students take six courses per year. The academic core includes English, mathematics, science, social studies, and health and physical education. The other courses may be selected from a variety of unified arts course offerings.
Mace's Lane is committed to the following elements of an effective curriculum:
- understanding that all children can learn and contribute to the intellectual community;
- accepting that children learn at different rates and come from different interests and backgrounds;
- using instructional processes that require students to analyze, synthesize and evaluate information, demonstrate learning through projects and products, minimize permanent group assignments, and infuse technology to create and use information.
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