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Mathematics and Science in Middle Level Classrooms

Mathematics and Science in Middle Level Classrooms

Integrating disciplines to encourage exploration and discovery.

AMLE's This We Believe calls for teachers to be engaged in active, purposeful learning in which students have the opportunity to engage in meaningful questions, formulate conjectures and hypotheses, and explore...
Author: Devin M. Levin, Elizabeth Fleming, Carolina Napp-Avelli, Amber Storer
Number of views (4988)/Comments (0)/
Topics: CurriculumOrganizational StructuresSTEM
Tags: Curriculum IntegrationScienceMathInterdisciplinary Teaching
Turning Apathy into Aspirations

Turning Apathy into Aspirations

Using project-based learning to develop relationships and establish relevance.

Project-Based Learning (PBL) has changed my life, but the changes I have seen in young people is the reason I am spreading the love. Skyler was the student that you knew was able to succeed academically and pass...
Author: Ryan Steuer
Number of views (2981)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Organizational StructuresTeaching
Tags: Project Based Learning
Building Teacher Collaboration School-wide

Building Teacher Collaboration School-wide

Models for teacher collaboration are ineffective without true participation.

Teacher collaboration has been a common element of middle grades initiatives for years, typically one or more of these three organizational models: common planning time, professional learning communities, and critical...
Author: Micki M. Caskey, Jan Carpenter
Number of views (24520)/Comments (1)/
Topics: Professional DevelopmentOrganizational StructuresTeaching
Tags: Common Planning TimePLCs
Looping—Making a Case for a Best Practice

Looping—Making a Case for a Best Practice

Schools that don't loop should consider the benefits of this proven practice.

Sensible, supported by research and practice, and doable. Looping is one practice that all middle schools should consider given its many benefits, including long-term student-teacher relationships that have proven...
Author: John H. Lounsbury & Gayle Andrews
Number of views (13838)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Middle School ConceptOrganizational Structures
Tags: Looping
The Status of Programs and Practices in America's Middle Schools: Results from Two National Studies

The Status of Programs and Practices in America's Middle Schools: Results from Two National Studies

Data from past and present middle level programs and practices supports middle school concept as key factor in highly successful middle schools The early 1900s marked the beginning of American education moving from a...
Author: C. Kenneth McEwin and Melanie Greene
Number of views (13762)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Middle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresResearch
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A Teaching Mosaic: Putting Together the Pieces of Interdisciplinary Instruction

It was a Monday morning, two short weeks before Mardi Gras and unusually chilly for the Crescent City. A gaggle of seventh graders had just begun to assault my classroom. In defense (or terror), I pulled a Jeb...
Author: Folwell Dunbar
Number of views (11488)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyMiddle School ConceptOrganizational StructuresTeaching
Tags: Interdisciplinary Teaching

"I Feel I'm Important": Successful Collaborative Teaching and Learning in a New Zealand Intermediate School

The investigation examined a collaborative teaching and learning house structure at a New Zealand intermediate (or middle) school. Using observations, questionnaires, and interviews, we explored the perceptions of...
Author: Rachel Martin, Judy Williams
Number of views (36313)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Organizational StructuresResearch
Tags: Cooperative LearningHouse Structure
STEM Across the Middle Grades Curriculum

STEM Across the Middle Grades Curriculum

Carl Sagan once said, "We can do science, and with it we can improve our lives." Yes, science is an action—something we can do—and it is apparent that we in education have forgotten that fact. As a...
Author: Chad Pavlekovich, Jenny Benardi, and Jayne Malach
Number of views (108877)/Comments (3)/
Topics: CurriculumLanguage Arts and LiteracyOrganizational StructuresSTEMTeaching
Tags: Curriculum IntegrationScienceProject Based LearningLooping

New Teacher Induction

Research Summary

Teacher quality is an important school-level factor in student achievement (Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005) and the focus of ongoing effort by policy makers and practitioners to ensure that all students have...
Author: Kathryn L. Martin
Number of views (71481)/Comments (0)/
Topics: LeadershipProfessional DevelopmentOrganizational StructuresResearchTeaching
Tags: New TeachersResearch Summary

Collaborative Scheduling: Teams Redefining Time

“My goal is to eliminate the schedule and for your team to sit down together and decide how you want to use the instructional day.” When our administrator made this statement, we laughed, but we were...
Author: Jennifer Smith and Nancy Cooper
Number of views (21118)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Organizational StructuresTeaming
Tags: Block ScheduleScheduling
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