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Classroom Management Strategies for Difficult Students
Promoting Change through Relationships
Teachers in middle level schools face overwhelming demands and challenges in their classrooms. They are expected to know content and pedagogy, develop engaging lessons that meet the needs of diverse learners, and use...
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Mary Ellen Beaty-O'Ferrall, Alan Green, Fred Hanna
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20 Literacy Strategies for Engaging the Middle Level Brain
Effective ways to enhance reading and writing experiences.
Recently, I was teaching a language arts class in Logan, West Virginia. The objective of the lesson was to analyze the impact of tradition on human behavior using narrative text. Sounds really dull, doesn't it? It...
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Marcia L. Tate
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Looking at Executive Function
It was bright orange and boxy. I had used it repeatedly to "catch air," plowing over snow piles at high speed in school parking lots during the winter. Doing these stunts was safe, I reasoned: It was the family...
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Rick Wormeli
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Character Council Promotes Values in School and Community
Do you want to do more with your advisory period? Maybe you want to bring students and the community closer, or maybe you are looking to change a negative school climate into a positive one. You might want to try R...
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Ann Asher, Brandi Owens, and Ryan Wideman
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How Rich Is Your Classroom Discourse?
Effective class discussions focus on critical thinking rather than right answers.
You ask the students, “What is the main idea of the passage?” Joseph responds, “Always persevere,” to which you reply, “Very good, Joseph.” In the average classroom, as much as...
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Jelani Jabari
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Developing Relationships with Difficult Students
Four simple strategies can help forge a positive teacher-student relationship.
As Mary watched Ashleigh get off the bus, she knew it was going to be “that kind” of day. Ashleigh was mad and yelling in the faces of the other children. Mary watched her push her way through the hallway,...
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Lori Rakes & Audra Parker
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Flexible Grouping in the Classroom
Remember the Fibonacci sequence? It's a series of numbers in which each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and so on. One of the most fundamental concepts in...
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Rick Wormeli
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Get Your Students Moving
Incorporating movement in the classroom keeps students and their brains engaged in learning.
As a 20-year veteran middle school teacher, I learned very early in my career that if you don’t physically move middle school students sometime during your lesson or class time, they will move you in ways you...
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Kim Campbell
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Perseverance and Grit
In every country in the world, we elevate those who endure, especially against overwhelming odds. We exalt politician William Wilberforce, who led a challenging campaign to end all slavery in the British empire. We...
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Rick Wormeli
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Creating Your Own Destiny: Teaching the Importance of Effort
Lynn is an eighth grade student struggling through several of her courses; pre-Algebra is her biggest challenge. Until now, she has gotten by with acceptable grades, but this year she has found her classes much more...
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Elizabeth Ross Hubbell
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