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Tribes TLC® Middle School Course


What It Is

A 24-hour experiential training that provides a research-based approach for middle level educators to focus on the critical developmental learning needs of young adolescents. Creating a culture that initiates a learning community; this is the plan!

Why you want it

The Middle School Course prepares your administrative and teaching staff to:

  • Recognize and gain an understanding of the four developmental tasks of adolescents and how this helps to develop a positive learning environment in the classroom and school
  • Explore and consider perceptions about adolescents and how this affects motivation – both student and teacher
  • Understand why and how group learning supports adolescent development
  • Establish the Tribes agreements for a democratic classroom and teach students specific collaborative skills for social development
  • Understand the relationship of reflective practice, authentic assessment, and academic achievement by learning how to ask a variety of reflection questions to increase learning
  • Design active group learning experiences that develop student-centered classrooms

How It Works

Participants experience over 40 learning strategies and evaluate how to apply to age/grade/subject specific classroom situations. Also included are a copy of the 432 page book, Discovering Gifts in Middle School, by Jeanne Gibbs, a Certificate of Completion, and the materials to enable you to implement Tribes in your after-school community learning center.

The Middle School Course can be presented over 4 consecutive six-hour days, or divided into a “two and two” plan to support staff while they learn and experience the process and apply it to their teaching environments. CenterSource will work with you to design a training plan that fits your school schedule.

Read what people who have had the course say:

(What is the biggest insight that you have had from participating in this training?): I completely overlooked the idea of community building in my classroom. This is my first year as a teacher and I now understand what a mistake I made by jumping right into curriculum before building community.

…I, as the teacher, now have the power and process to teach student skills that will help our classroom culture; instead of complaining I can now be pro-active.

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