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Young Adolescent Development
Wayside Teaching Revisited
Revisiting the value of informal teaching beyond planned instruction.
Wayside teaching was first introduced in the May 1987 "As I See It" column in the Middle School Journal—30 years ago. Here is a slightly modified version of it, particularly for all those educators who came to...
Author:
John H. Lounsbury
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Teaching Students Responsibility
For as long as humans have lived on Earth, generations of adults have bemoaned the lack of due diligence in the upcoming generation: "They're indifferent and don't work hard," they declare. "We have to teach them...
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Rick Wormeli
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Educators and Law Enforcement: Teaming for Character Education
Students often stop to speak to their school's resource officer (SRO) as she walks the halls of Pine Ridge Middle School in Naples, Florida. Seventh graders routinely ask Corporal Sandra Sprenger of the Collier County...
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Greg Richards
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The effectiveness of lunch detention in middle schools.
I’ve heard mixed opinions about the effectiveness of lunch detention in middle schools. Is it appropriate and does it work? Lunch detention is not a harsh punishment, but it does provide students with...
Author:
Nancy Ruppert
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Soft Skills: Preparing Kids for Life After School
Colleges and employers emphasize the importance of core skills.
Standards writers, curriculum designers, and classroom teachers have spent the past several years clamoring to find ways to revitalize curriculum and instruction and increase rigor in ways that prepare students for...
Author:
Jaime Greene
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Middle School, not Junior High
We are a middle school, not a junior version of high school. To be effective in our teaching, we are developmentally appropriate for young adolescents, not for 16- to 18-year-olds nor for 8- and 9-year-olds. There is...
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Rick Wormeli
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Five Approaches to Optimally Guide Middle Grades Students
While the middle grades mark a critical transition period for students, they are often overlooked and underinvested in compared to other grade levels. According to Lynsey Wood Jeffries, the CEO of Higher Achievement,...
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Expanded Learning Middle School Initiative
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Leading Learning at the Middle Level
Understanding what makes the middle level different.
As a young child, I frequently made the trip with my parents from our home in Oregon's Willamette Valley to visit relatives in a small town in Washington State. I learned at an early age to recognize that we were...
Author:
Patti Kinney
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Getting to the Heart & Sole of Young Adolescent Girls
Young adolescent girls gain the skills and tools they need to reach their potential.
Neuropsychologist Dan Siegel, in his book Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, describes adolescence as a time of increased elasticity in the brain. The emotive part of the adolescent brain is...
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Heather Britt
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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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