Mittelschule

Middle school is a general term for schools of secondary education sector.

In general, it refers to schools of the intermediate ( approximately 10 - to 16- year-old students, ISCED level 2 secondary education first stage ). The term is for both types of education in general and for specific types of schools within a school system in use.

Germany

Today middle schools secondary schools are equipped with a medium - maturity - train (M- branch ). However, a middle school must meet with M- branch specific criteria in comparison to a normal high school. It is practical to prepare students for an education. There are three electives:

  • Technology ( technical drawing and workpieces)
  • Economy ( computer and office work ) and
  • Social (cooking and planning, formerly GtB ( Commercial- technical area), KtB ( Communication Laboratory) and cooking).

The middle school is different from a junior high school in that subjects such as BWR (Business Administration / Accounting ) and WR ( economics and law ) are not included in the curriculum. Physics, Chemistry, Biology (PCB ) are offered shortened as work and business ( private and general knowledge in the field of business ), technology ( private and general knowledge in the field of technology), history, social studies and geography (GSE ) as a subject.

The term middle school in the individual German Länder:

  • Zehnklassiger type of school in the 1950 years of the GDR, see middle school (DDR )
  • By 1964, colloquially until the introduction of official secondary school, Name of secondary school
  • In Saxony until 2013 a secondary school type, high school today
  • In Bavaria, the middle school has replaced the main school.

Austria

By way of derogation from the German and Swiss parlance is called fachsprachlich as middle school, the school of the 10 - to 14 -year-olds, while the subsequent formation of a secondary school (general or vocationally, AHS / BHS ) is called, if it leads to the Matura ( university entrance ) or vocational middle school, when it ends only with a professional degree. This early position with 10 points and 14 is a - critical Seen - specific Austrian education. This middle school designated specifically all schools that go beyond the compulsory schools (primary school / elementary school, secondary school with Polytechnic, or special school ), hence they are called, generally, the lower level AHS ( and colloquially the whole school) way. Otherwise there was until the 2000s, secondary schools (secondary Daria ) only sporadically in statute schools (schools with its own curriculum ).

(: General education middle school professional ) experimented Since EU accession of Austria is in the context of the harmonization of education systems (Lisbon Strategy and Bologna Process ) in Austria with an explicit middle school. This was first implemented as a cooperative middle school as a school experiment or autonomy project for a high school or lower cycle of AHS.

Since 2008/2009 testing of a completely new type of school, the new middle school. This is up to 2015/16 to replace all secondary schools, is thus the normal form of a non- secondary school. It is a further development of the system of power groups, but with the curriculum of the lower cycle of AHS, which is intended to simplify the transition to secondary school.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the cantonal school (high school / matriculation school) and other schools of the same level, see also Swiss education system

Italy

In Italy, since 1962, a middle school ( scuola media inferior ), which is attended by all students of the sixth through eighth grade, the secondary 2 (ninth to thirteenth class) is historically often than scuola media superiore (upper secondary school ) and the Matura diploma accordingly as diploma di scuola media superiore referred, see also middle School (South Tyrol ).

Anglo-American systems

See Middle School

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