Middle school is a challenging time for students, as their bodies and minds experience major developmental transitions. Hope Rising has created a hope-centric emotional intelligence curriculum designed to help students build healthy relationships with themselves and the world around them.
Puberty is... complicated. As awareness of the self and the outside world increases, so can self-consciousness, self-destructive behaviors, and self-defeating thought patterns.
Building a solid foundation of empathy, confidence, and hope for the future can literally be life-saving for middle schoolers.
Hope Rising has created a hope-centric emotional intelligence curriculum, "My Best Me", designed to teach students how to build these positive foundations within themselves.
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✦ Middle School Challenges ✦
The rates of depression, anxiety, and self-destructive behaviors see a remarkable increase during the peak pubescent years, according to recent neurological studies. This increase is linked to the flood of developmental hormones the body undergoes during this time.
Because of this intense formative transition the mind and body endure during puberty, creating a foundation of personal identity, confidence, and empathy is particularly important for middle schoolers.
✦ Why Hope Rising Can Help ✦
While the lessons in "My Best Me" can be reorganized to fit your primary curriculum, the middle school student text begins by encouraging students to consider their identity, personality, and character qualities. This section teaches students to appreciate their unique minds and bodies and to set goals that speak to their individual strengths.
In addition to the section on identity, "My Best Me" teaches students how to maintain their emotional, physical, and mental health, the importance of community, their relationship with the natural environment, and finally, economics and financial literacy.
The curriculum centers hope in all of these sections, encouraging students to use positive thinking and hope-based behaviors to understand themselves, connect with others, and achieve the future they desire.
Through all of its lessons, "My Best Me" teaches students how to understand and effectively manage their stress and emotions to optimize their classroom interactions, relationships, and learning capacity.
You can incorporate "My Best Me" into your primary programming in one-hour blocks each week or structure it as you see fit. The middle school version of the "My Best Me" curriculum comes with an age and grade-appropriate student text, as well as a corresponding teacher guide.
✦ About Hope Rising ✦
With its award-winning emotional intelligence curriculum, "My Best Me", Hope Rising strives to bring the power and science of hope into K-12 classrooms around the world. The company's team collectively has decades-worth of professional experience in the education and non-profit sectors and uses this to provide hope-centric support for students, faculty members, and education directors alike.
Want to learn more and preview Hope Rising's educational materials? You can do so, and download a free sample of the curriculum by visiting https://hoperisingedu.com/sample-text/
