How does the IMYM model support Middle Years learners and their teachers?
The IMYM model takes advantage of the unique needs and characteristics of the middle-years learner. Learning in a middle years classroom requires a unique classroom culture and climate. Middle years students are distinguished by special intellectual, moral, physical, emotional, and social characteristics that shape the way they learn. The methods, contexts, resources, and supports that middle years teachers choose are, in turn, determined by the needs of their students. We have designed the IMYM model to support the unique styles, attitudes, and pacing of middle years teachers and to keep the number of teachers of any one IMYM classroom to a minimum.
