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Removing Imaginary Boundaries Around Content
Teacher and students benefit from an integrated curriculum.
Even though teachers work in different rooms and on different hallways, our individual subject areas should not be viewed as existing within rigid instructional walls. Middle level educators need to engage in...
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Jason D. DeHart, Christie DeHart
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
Integrated Curriculum
Cross-Content School Improvement for the Middle Grades
4 Scientific Ways to Create a Great School
One of the foundational concepts in the critical middle grades is cross-content learning. We create interdisciplinary plans and bridge curricula for a few reasons. First, we know that young adolescents learn more when...
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Dru Tomlin
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
Effective Instructional Practices for Diverse Learners
Using popular culture resources to engage learners.
Middle level teachers can make learning engaging by using popular culture texts. When faced with the challenge of engaging students, many teachers often struggle to create relevant learning experiences while also...
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Crystal LaVoulle
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Diversity and Social Equity
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Reading
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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...
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Devin M. Levin, Elizabeth Fleming, Carolina Napp-Avelli, Amber Storer
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STEM
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Curriculum Integration
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
The Basics of Developing Effective Teams
The life of a middle level teacher is one of continuous challenges. Teachers are charged with curriculum development, lesson planning, data analysis, problem solving, response-to-intervention, and other student...
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Dawn Michelle Williams, Leah Kahn, Claudia Whitley
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Teaming
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
Assuring the Continued Success of the Middle School
We hope you enjoy this article, originally published as a chapter in AMLE's (previously NMSA) first book, The Middle School: A Look Ahead, published in 1977 and edited by Paul George. While the article remains...
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John Lounsbury
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Middle School Concept
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Interdisciplinary Teaching
Top 5 Vince Lombardi Quotes to Inspire Interdisciplinary Teaming
When you join up in the middle grades, you become part of a passionate team. You cherish the middle level playbook because, as it's stated in This We Believe, you "value young adolescents and are prepared to teach...
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Dru Tomlin
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Necessary Noise: The Importance of Collaborative Learning
An old-fashioned radio broadcast encourages deeper reading.
Connections between students, connections between texts and students, and connections between texts and the real world are vital to student learning. In classrooms, one way to make connections is by linking people,...
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Lesley Roessing
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Language Arts and Literacy
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Student Engagement
Student Motivation
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Literature
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Literacy
The Kind of Learning We Need
Empowering our middle school students to make the world a better place.
At Americans Who Tell The Truth, we are eager to stir the hearts and minds of young people towards caring deeply and acting boldly to make our world a better place. Often such initiatives are reserved for experiences...
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Nancy Doda
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Teaching
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Active Learning
Character Education
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Social Emotional Learning
A Global Awareness Collaboration Across Disciplines
Teaching students broader concepts using an interdisciplinary approach promotes more authentic experiences and broader learning. Laura Duerr, author of the Spring 2008 Educational Horizons article, "Interdisciplinary...
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Pooja Patel, Kevin Toledo
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Service Learning
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