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Transitions with the Brain in Mind

Teachers can help students during developmental changes.

Research findings and ongoing studies provide middle level professionals with information to help them continue to develop their understanding about the significant developmental changes that take place during...

Author: Shauna King
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Topics: Transitions to/from Middle School Young Adolescent Development

Tags: Transition to High School Transition to Middle School

Experiencing Challenges and Failures

Helping gifted and advanced learners during transitional periods.

Recognize These Students? Bryce stopped doing his homework in ninth grade. His backpack was a disaster, and he could never find the planner his homeroom teacher distributed in August. It was now mid-October. Earlier...

Author: Susan Rakow
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Topics: Transitions to/from Middle School

Tags: Gifted and Talented Transition to High School Transition to Middle School

Supporting Students During Times of Change

Working with students to adjust to new environments and expectations.

Moving away from home to attend college was the first time a transition from one school to another was a remarkable, memorable event. While I can recall school transitions during childhood and young adolescent years,...

Author: Valerie Benjamin
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Topics: Transitions to/from Middle School

Tags: Transition to High School Transition to Middle School

Young Adolescent Voices

Students share valuable insights when we take time to listen.

Middle level educators engage in a variety of professional development experiences in order to continue to learn about effective ways to work with young adolescents as they develop their identities, ideas, and...

Author: Ann K. Yehle, Connor Drevs, Kelly Garrity, McKenzie Larson
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Topics: Teaching Young Adolescent Development

Tags: Student Motivation

Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-18 (MGLS:2017) Webinar

Are you passionate about middle grades education? Interested in an unprecedented new study designed to fill the gap in national data related to this critical developmental stage of adolescence? Join representatives...

Author: AMLE
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Topics: Research Messages from AMLE

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The News Literacy Project

A tool to help students determine news they can trust

It has been years since we've kept up with the world around us by reading the local paper over breakfast in the morning and watching the national news on television in the evening. The last two decades have seen an...

Author: Alan C. Miller
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy

Tags: Critical Thinking Media Literacy

Passion is not enough: Preparing middle level preservice teachers to be advocates for change

Each year, thousands of middle grades preservice teachers assume their places in classrooms across the country, through practica, internships, and student teaching experiences. Over 600 U.S. colleges or universities...

Author: Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Penny A. Bishop
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Topics: Middle School Concept Professional Development Professional Preparation

Tags: Preservice Teachers

When Every Educator in a Middle School Shadows a Student for a Day

A transformative experience that will inform your approach to teaching

As educators, we take a mental snapshot of our students. We figure the funny seventh grader who goofs off with boys in the hallway has plenty of friends to sit with at lunch. We assume the cynical loner who tries to...

Author: Phyllis Fagell
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Topics: School Culture/Climate Teaching

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Tinkering to Learn: A Reflection on a Promising Practice

Providing students with opportunities to explore, wonder, and discover.

Mini-Course Day As I began teaching a thoughtfully designed lesson on conductors and insulators, I was met with blank stares and compliant students, patiently waiting me out. If they weren't such compliant young...

Author: Heidi Stark
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation

From Reluctant Reader to Ravenous Reader

How to develop lifelong readers by using choice as a motivator.

I wake up and roll out of bed. What shall I eat? Cereal? Bagel? Breakfast bar? I have choices. No one tells me what to eat; I eat what I want and what I feel I need—limited only by what is available. I go to my...

Author: Lesley Roessing
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