Unique Middle School Programs

GUIDED LEARNING

The goal of Guided Learning is to assist students in personal growth and positive progress in his/her daily learning.

Objectives include the following:

1. Emphasizing responsibilities required for class/school, including attention of procedures, requirements, management of homework, projects, etc.
2. Helping with organization skills
3. Raising self-confidence in themselves, in approaching their work, their study skills, and their behavior
4. Increasing the quality/quantity of work produced
5. Reducing self-defeating behaviors that may be in their way of being as successful as possible in the classroom
6. Raising and maintaining passing grades to re-enter elective classes.

Lego Robotics Lab

The Legos Robotics Lab is a class all 6^th graders take at Coloma Middle School.  This class features a Lego-Robotics lab, complete with laptop computers and over 800 Lego pieces per set.

Students learn to construct robots out of Legos.  They problem solve on a daily basis while programming their robots to accomplish different tasks.  Middle school students are now being exposed to more engineering, computer programming, and robotics concepts than ever before.

The class is very challenging and rewarding at the same time.  The students have taken hold of these critical thinking concepts and are soaring for the sky.