Curriculum Plan Len Bar middle school ensures that our students will see a connection between these subjects and be able to relate them to real world circumstances; such as Math, English, History, and Science. An integrated curriculum will expand learner’s cognitive development for those within the middle level age bracket. By combining two or more academic disciplines we will expand our learners’ interactive learning experience. Len Bar middle school also offers foreign language, physical education, band, and art to better our students; although, these are not core subjects we recognize that these subjects are also important. We are always looking for ways to incorporate innovative learning styles to better our leaders of tomorrow. Integrated connections are significant because it caters to the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial development of our learners. (TIMS pg. 107) At Len Bar middle school we offer a semester change between an art, foreign language, band, and physical education courses. An example of this would be for the first semester a student may be enrolled in Spanish as a foreign language and once the semester is completed they pick up an art course for the second half of the semester. Exploratory programs give learners an option to start choosing subjects for their selves and better help them develop interest. This year Len Bar Middle School is developing an after school program “Future Business Leaders Of America” better known as F.B.L.A, it is important to us that our students are well prepared in the business world and we believe with the help of our staff, community, and parents we can create amazing leaders for our tomorrow

Integrated Integrated curriculum is an innovative way to create a rigorous, relevant, and engaging learning environment for our learners. By dissolving the boundaries which separate content areas and creating a widespread relationship between subjects that would normally not have any connection.

Exploratory Exploratory curriculum programs are subjects that vary in length but usually last 6- 8 weeks.

Relevance Educators that exemplify pedagogical skills and are well versed in relating the subjects to real world events nationally and globally we consider it relevant. Relevance is important within the classroom because a student better understands something they can relate it to or are dealing with at that time. For example: Have you ever witnessed a student relate math problems to candy or something that they like? If jack had 4 skittles and he wanted to give Amy two, how many skittles will jack have left? A question such as these help connect the missing links for students and gives them something to compare, also, by linking similar questions with other subjects to remove the content area boundary.

Mrs. James emphasizes relevancy by engaging students in creative math projects that relate it to real world situations. Each team was giving a budget to work with and they all have to budget their finances to last a year to maintain a home, consider property taxes, mortgage, food, and home upkeep to list a few. The students will work with percentages, fractions, division, multiplication, addition, and subtraction. The project is designed to be challenging but integrate real world situations in a creative manner in which we create unity within each team. Once each team has utilized their budget to their best of their ability we will collectively as a school decide which team had the best budget and reward that team for such hard work.