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Equity, Access, and Inclusiveness: Supporting Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Young Adolescents in the Mainstreamed Middle School Classroom
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Introduction The numbers of deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) students mainstreamed in classrooms today is growing (Kelman & Branco, 2009). More than 87% of D/HH students receive instruction in general education...
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Alicia Wenzel, Patrick Graham
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STEM in the Middle Grades
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education continues to emphasize the teaching of skills that are relevant to today's information driven economy (Jamali, Nurulazam Md Zain, Samsudin & Ale...
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Premkumar Pugalenthi, Alisa B. Wickliff, David K. Pugalee
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Student Agency
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A typical middle school classroom includes young adolescents with a range of skills, interests, abilities, and personalities. One student may relate any topic of study to a favorite sport or video game. Another...
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Amanda Wall, Dixie Massey, Margaret Vaughn
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Teaching Historical Literacy in the Middle Grades
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As students enter the middle grades, they often encounter curricula that grow more challenging each year. This is especially the case in social studies when students experience primary documents and complex texts,...
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Stephanie M. Bennett, Jennifer Stepp-Sanders
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Transitioning Young Adolescents from Elementary to Middle School
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Middle school can be an exciting and terrifying time for students transitioning from elementary to middle school. By definition, transition means the change from one place, state of being, or condition to another...
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Casey Dianna Gilewski, Monica L. Nunn
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Understanding and Addressing the Challenges of Teaching Middle Grades Mathematics Conceptually
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Understanding students' academic needs and developing curricula to address them has always been a challenge for middle level educators. Competing perspectives on academic rigor and external demands for accountability...
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Holly Henderson Pinter
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Social Media for Middle Level Classrooms
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Seventh grade teacher Elizabeth Delmatoff piloted a social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom. By the end of the year, 20% of students school-wide were completing additional assignments for no credit,...
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Alicia Wenzel, Ken Carano
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Professional Learning and Professional Development in the Middle Grades
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Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have touted the importance of improving educator quality as fundamental to enhancing school and student outcomes (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos,...
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Dana L. Bickmore
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Motivation: Understanding and Responding to Individual Differences
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A basic educational principle is that no matter how well teachers design their instruction, students who refuse to engage can ensure the teachers' instruction will come to naught. This simple truth leads teachers on a...
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Bruce Henderson, David Strahan
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Developmental Characteristics of Young Adolescents
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Early adolescence is a distinct period of human growth and development situated between childhood and adolescence. During this remarkable stage of the life cycle, young adolescents, 10- to 15-year-olds, experience...
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Micki Caskey, Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
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