7th Grade

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Visitation Academy

• 7th Grade
• Parent Night

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Counseling Department

• Mrs. Kate Reddy
• Grades 7-9
• Department Chair
• Ms. Peggy FitzGibbon
• Grades 10-12, last names A-K
• Mrs. Adele Hayes
• Grades 10-12, last names M-Z
• Mrs. Alice ODonnell
• Administrative Assistant
• Website
• http//teacherweb.com/MO/VisitationAcademy/Counsel
  ing/apt1.stm

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7th Grade Program

• Individual meetings
• Scheduled by Mrs. Reddy
• Drop in as needed
• Owning Up Curriculum
• 2nd 3rd Quarters
• CTP Online (ERB) standardized testing
• Week of Oct. 8-11
• Oct. 16 Test Day
• Nominations for Duke TIP

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Academics
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HomeWork

• On average, 2 hours per night (25 min per class)
• Will vary based on which classes drop
• Moodle
• Access from main website or vizonline
• 1st place to check for homework assignments
• Assignment notebooks, whiteboards, sticky notes
• Server
• Best accessed from school

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Academic Goals of Middle school

• Become resourceful
• Look for information before asking
• Advocate for themselves
• Let others know what they need
• Approach adults for help
• Build confidence Be successful
• Set reasonable attainable goals
• Be independent
• Ask for help when necessary

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Resources

• Teacher
• Moodle
• Page for each class
• Calendar
• Assignments
• Netclassroom
• Check grades (updated every 2 weeks)
• Marking column 2 for 1st semester, Marking column
  4 for 2nd semester
• M missing
• X excused
• 0 no points, cannot turn in
• Counselor

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Tablets

• Guidelines for use at home
• Where?
• When?
• How long?
• Consequences?
• Monitoring use
• Use in a visible place
• No minimize rule
• Software

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Social Involvement
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Social Involvement

• Benefits of being involved
• Meeting people
• Organized/supervised activities
• Discovering interests
• Leadership opportunities
• Face-to-face communication
• Ways to get involved
• Announcements
• Club lists www.visitationacademy.org
• Student life
• Club Fair Sept. 11 during activity period

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Social Challenges
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Social Challenges

• Fitting in/Belonging
• Cliques
• Mixers, parties, and boys
• Body image and sexuality
• Exposure to alcohol, smoking, drugs
• Electronic Communication and the Internet

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Dealing with Challenges

• Personal Responsibility
• Talk through situations, reserve judgment
• Be supportive
• Allow them to handle their own problems
• Help them learn from situations
• Communication
• Listen
• Family Values
• Clear Expectations
• Make sure shes listening

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Dealing with Challenges

• Setting Limits
• Consistency
• Make the consequences known
• Be willing to be unpopular
• Focus on important issues
• Resilience
• Call for back-up

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Resilience

• Robert Evans Raising Resilient Children
• Nurture
• Need just enough
• Structure
• Guidelines and consistency
• Latitude
• Freedom to learn from mistakes and unfairness
• Childhood is PRACTICE in problem solving
  relationships
• Resilience is built when they figure out how to
  handle disappointment and failure
• We should be preparing the child for the path,
  not the path for the child.
• Center for Research on Girls
• ISACS Conference Grit Why it is so important
  and how we elicit it.

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Dealing with Challenges

• Owning Up
• Cultures of Dignity
• Social Scene
• Just because its common doesnt mean its ok
• Relationships
• Peers, family, teachers
• Conflict resolution
• Media influences
• Countercultural

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7th Grade Topics Covered

• Getting Started
• Guidelines, expectations, confidentiality
• Girl World Box
• Conflict Resolution (SEAL)
• Cliques and Roles in Girl World
• Friendship Is Not a Joke

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8th and 9th Grade Topics

• 8th Grade
• Whats Up with Guys
• Perpetual Beauty Pageant
• Know Your Image
• Understanding Media and Culture
• 9th Grade
• Reputations and the Double Standard
• Sexual Harassment
• When to Date and When to Dump
• Saying Yes and Saying No
• When Relationships Go Bad
• Getting and Giving Support

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Where do they learn to act this way?

• Each Other
• Role Models
• Society/Media/Culture

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Dealing with Challenges

• Be Aware
• Know their friends and friends parents
• Call other parents
• Notice changes

• Be Aware
• Music
• Movies
• TV shows
• Websites

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7th Grade favorites

• TV Shows
• Big Bang Theory
• Dance Moms
• Friends
• Gossip Girl
• Pretty Little Liars

• Music
• Taylor Swift
• One Direction
• One Republic
• Katy Perry
• Capital Cities
• Ed Sheeran
• Justin Timberlake
• Jay-Z

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7th Grade favorites

• Websites
• You Tube
• Netflix
• Wikis

• Social Media
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Skype
• Pinterest
• Snapchat
• Twitter
• Vine
• ask.fm

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Tablets Cell Phones

• Guidelines for use at home
• Where?
• When?
• How long?
• Consequences?
• Monitoring use
• Use in a visible place
• No minimize rule
• Software

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Thank you for coming!

• Moodle demonstration
• Netclassroom demonstration
• Questions

• For those that would like to stay

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Contact Information

• Kate Reddy
• 314-625-9139
• kreddy_at_visitationacademy.org
• Counseling website http//teacherweb.com/MO/Visit
  ationAcademy/Counseling/apt1.stm