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Teaching in the Middle Years

Students in this 10 to 15 years age group have particular interests, needs and focuses that are different from those of young children or older adolescents. Middle years students identify strongly with their peers and experience heightened emotions, progressively seek greater independence and develop their individual identities and value systems. Intellectually they have a growing capacity for reflective and abstract thinking and begin to make decisions about adult roles.

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