Middle school teachers in Maine must successfully meet the developmental needs of their students and at the same time meet academic standards set forth to them by the state. This website was designed by Maine teachers for Maine teachers in an effort to help them accomplish this feat.
AGE
7-11
10-14
13+
Developmental
Stage		 Development of concrete reasoning

"Logical thinking about things"

 Time of transition

"Mastery of concrete operations,

Experimentation with formal operations"

 Development of formal operations

"Thinking with abstractions"
Clues Classification

Conservation

"Arithmetic"

 Creating theories

Thinking about thinking

 Hypothetical- deductive reasoning
Difficulties Abstract ideas

Complex verbal problems

Suspending judgements

 Empathy

Patience

Synthesizing

 Applications and transfer
Source: Van Hoose, J., Strahan, D., & L'Esperance, M. (2001). Intellectual Development. In Promoting Harmony: Young Adolescent Development and School Practices (pp. 27-44). Westerville, Ohio: National Middle School Association.

7/14/04