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Finding a Common Language Through Relationships

Establishing supportive relationships helps students truly thrive.

How effectively are we communicating with our middle school students? As a middle school counselor, I often step back and think: Am I speaking to fill the space? Is what I am saying applicable. Most important, do I...

Author: Andrea M. Salvo
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Topics: Health, Wellness, Guidance Teaching Young Adolescent Development

Tags: Student Engagement Counselor Roles Guidance

Why Awaken the Middle School Voice?

Middle school voices are not always what their teachers want to hear. Those voices can be high-pitched and rowdy, full of criticism and negativity, whining with complaint, or bent on distracting others, destroying...

Author: Elyse S. Scott
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Topics: Inspiration Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation New Teachers

Show What You Know: From PBL to Digital Portfolios

One student's enthusiasm can open new doors to teaching and learning.

My son's birthday party this year was at one of those bounce house places with children hopped up on orange soda and birthday cake. In the midst of the chaos, one of the workers approached me—not with the news...

Author: Amber Chandler
Number of views (20182)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Assessment Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Project Based Learning Portfolios

Teach Like You Tweet!

We can never underestimate the power of belonging and relationships. As middle level educators, we know the correlation between establishing relationships and student achievement, but have we considered the need to...

Author: Brent Armstrong, Susanne Long
Number of views (19964)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Social Media Twitter

Caring for the Whole Student

At Moravia Middle School, each aspect of our program is designed to meet not only our students’ unique academic needs, but their social and emotional issues as well. Our goals could only be achieved by...

Author: Bruce MacBain, Jeff Green, and Rebecca Burtram
Number of views (19928)/Comments (3)/

Topics: School Culture/Climate Teaching Teaming

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation

Increasing Participation through Random Calling

How can we encourage reluctant students to participate without humiliating them?

Every teacher has students who never participate unless called upon. And while randomly calling on students to respond, instead of taking volunteers, can dramatically increase both attention and participation, it can...

Author: Grace Dearborn
Number of views (19741)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement

Engineering Brighter Futures

An after-school program that heightens students' curiosity about STEM and makes learning fun

Every day after school, in the 9 Dots Community Learning Center (named for the 3x3 puzzle that challenges one to think outside the box) in Los Angeles, underserved middle school and elementary students are defining...

Author: Laura Staich
Number of views (19491)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Diversity and Social Equity STEM Technology

Tags: Student Engagement Science Math Critical Thinking

Losing the Fear of Sharing Control: Starting a Reading Workshop

We stood in the empty classroom. Lisa looked up at me. "I couldn't understand what I read last night," she said. I looked at her, speechless. The class was reading a novel, and I wondered why Lisa had been failing...

Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (19470)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Language Arts and Literacy

Tags: Student Engagement Democratic Classroom Literature Reading Literacy

The Apprenticeship Approach

Tailor-made for the Middle Grades

The middle grades are notoriously challenging for youth. This is the period when some students can start to disengage. Gallup conducts an annual poll of students that measures, as they categorize it, their hope,...

Author: Jason Cascarino
Number of views (18974)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement College Readiness Career Exploration

Creating Makers, Not Spaces

Move the desks out of the way, pull up a piece of rug, and invent something using the engineering process and leftover parts. Just like anything else, the Internet provides a plethora of ideas to define and design...

Author: Frank Pileiro, Frank Rudnesky, Peter Davis
Number of views (18670)/Comments (0)/

Topics: Curriculum Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Inquiry-based Learning Problem-solving

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