Prepare students for high school.

Entering high school has always been difficult for students. Less structure, greater responsibility and challenging academics make it one of life’s toughest transitions. And in today’s larger, test-driven schools, new high school students tend to feel isolated and overwhelmed. But students who do well in their critical first year of high school are more likely to graduate and succeed than those who don’t.

In unscripted interviews and vignettes featuring students in the 7th through 10th grades and their parents and teachers, you will hear inspirational, realistic and sometimes amusing messages and concerns. Students discuss their fears and anxieties about entering high school – getting lost, forgetting their locker combinations, heavier work loads, not fitting in plus a host of other issues. Parents voice their own concerns, which center more on academic success for their children and their own parental relationships with their teens at this critical time. Teachers and administrators describe the development and implementation of successful transition programs, the importance to students of feeling ‘connected’ and how students can be successful in their first year of high school and beyond.

Transitions is a brand-new three-part program that will give you and your students pertinent information and tips for success. This program will give students greater confidence, teach them to become effective self-advocates and help them learn how to plan for their own academic future and success. Teachers and administrators will learn to implement the key strategies and activities connected to a successful transition program. Parents will be given critical information on what they can do to help and how they can best prepare their children at home. We’re sure that Transitions will become a vital part of your school’s transition program.

Comprehensive Resource Manuals
Accompanying the DVDs are fantastic comprehensive printed materials. The 44-page Student Workbook is loaded with worksheets on time management; goal setting; study skills; listening skills; note-taking; test-taking skills; success tips for home such as eating right, exercising; prioritizing and sleeping; plus information sheets on substance abuse, bullying, diversity and mental health. The 56-page Teacher’s Resource Manual includes the same sheets plus facts, research data and the key elements and activities associated with a successful transition program. An eight-page Parent Orientation Guide will help ease parents’ concerns while giving them give them important information about staying involved and how they can help support their new high-schoolers at home.

Four-Disc Set Transitions is a four-disc set! It contains 3 DVDs: a 21-minute Student Edition, a 9-minute Parent Edition and a 27-minute Teacher Edition, along with a resource CD containing 108 pages of digital teaching guides and resource materials.

Audience: Junior High/Middle School

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