To Be a Junior High Youth Worker ...;takes a distinct kind of adult, just as junior highers are a distinct kind of people. Betwixt and between though they may be, early adolescents are as capable of a genuine spiritual understanding and growth as high schoolers.;It's just that junior highers absorb Bible teaching and demonstrate their spirituality--well, differently. Help! I'm a Junior High Youth Worker! is your primer for understanding young teenagers, then teaching them with a mind-set and with methods that fit them.;First Things First. Three axioms that define your territory as a junior high youth worker.;So Just What Is a Junior Higher, Anyway? The essence of early adolescence: the need for appropriate rules ... the dilemma of throwing sixth graders and eighth graders together in the same program ... small is good.;Developmentally Speaking. Changes junior highers enjoy and endure cognitively, emotionally, socially, spiritually ... their changing relationships with parents ... individuation and hair under their arms.;Time to Teach! Your required dose of pedagogy: the case for fun learning ... ten top teaching topics for middle school ministry ... how simulations, role plays, and storytelling can be your best teaching methods for early adolescents.;Faith Outside the Youth Room. Spiritual discipleship for middle schoolers: they don't have to be high schoolers to begin forming habits of prayers, service, and outreach.