Sentences with phrase «middle school kids learn»

«Middle school kids learn best by being actively engaged in their work, and hands - on collaborative projects are especially engaging to them,» Bill Ivey observed.

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Well somebody didn't read their Harry Potter, because an Ohio middle school is actually allowing some parents to opt their children out of part of the state social studies curriculum on the grounds that they don't want their kids learning about Muslims.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Even if kids learn a bit faster because of these programs, the results probably even out towards the middle of elementary school anyway.

My kids are independent and have learned to do their homework on their own.But I had to step in recently to help my middle - schooler with a term paper that needed a lot of help.

This program benefits middle school kids as they learn about concussions as well as help the athletes find a positive way to share and view their concussions.

As you look ahead to Middle School in the fall, how do you feel kids from other elementary schools will treat you once they learn about your food allergies?

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

Now that I have kids approaching middle school age and I've been teaching them, I figured I should share the way that I learned, as well as some tools that make learning easier.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

«Which is all the more sad, because service - learning is the type of pedagogy middle school kids benefit most from,» he said.

Later, teaching middle and high school history (an equally tough sell by the way), one of my goals was always to get kids jazzed about learning.

Middle and high school kids in particular often demand to know the purpose of doing an assignment or of learning some seemingly irrelevant skill.

For example, a couple of years ago, Eric Marcos and his middle school students began creating video tutorials to help other kids learn mathematics concepts.

With age appropriate visuals (featuring upper elementary, middle school kids, and teens), this resource was designed to make communication clearer for students with learning disabilities, ESL / ELL and language barriers, autism spectrum / nonverbal populations, and beyond.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

«The goal for us at King Middle School is to create opportunities for all kids to do representational work about their learning,» says David Grant, King's technology teaching strategist.

Finally, ask yourself whether the collegiate version of U.S. history — warts and all, with emphasis on the warts — is what you want kids to learn about the nation's past while in elementary, middle, and high school.

I know my local library has middle schoolers come in during the summer as guides for the kids to learn how to use the library.

By defining science education the way we too often do, we are turning middle school kids off to real learning.

Says Jodee Rose, a former art and math teacher who developed a middle school lesson plan for teaching the method, «It's low tech, but it's high tech ideas, because it's working through computer language, which kids are going to need to learn eventually.»

So, an art initiative and a science initiative between the Elementary School, the Middle School and the High School where there are kids P / K -12 working together and learning together in probably more of an authentic way than happens sometimes traditionally in the classroom.

«All Kids Can Learn»: Masking Diversity in Middle School.

Suggests that the cliche that «all kids can learn» validates educational practices that mask middle school learners» diversity.

She meets with the teachers, she comes into the math class and pulls out the kids who need more into separate groups for more challenging math, she writes the GIEPs, attends PAGE conferences, and also is in the process of working with the middle school AT teachers to give them a heads up on the needs and successful learning strategies of the up and coming 5th graders.

They printed a list of 13 concerns, including, «We are learning material that we already learned in middle school» and «We want a discipline policy that doesn't suspend kids for every little thing.»

Kids should be involved in active, project - based learning, especially middle school students who desperately need to feel like they own their own learning and that learning is relevant to their lives — otherwise they'll stop attending.

The cycle of teaching, learning and engaging continues until the afternoon bell rings, signaling the end of the regular classroom day and the beginning of both the LA's Best Afterschool program for K - 5 students and YPI / 21st Century Kids enrichment classes for middle school (6th - 8th grade) students.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

One wave of migration, as every American kid learns in middle school, brought humans across the land bridge between Asia and North America, thus laying the groundwork for the birth of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Middle - schooler Roy Eberhardt, a new kid in Coconut Cove, learns to love South Florida when he joins the effort to help save the home of some tiny burrowing owls.

Today we take a look at the eWonderPad an interactive learning device and Tablet PC aimed at middle school kids!

We provide funds, time, and services to many community groups including: Ronald McDonald House — Kapps for Kids, House, Southeastern Diabetes Education Services, American Cancer Society — Relay for Life, YMCA — Jingle Bell 5K, United Cerebral Palsy, Ballet Pensacola, Bill Bond Baseball, N.B. Cook Elementary School, East Hill Christian School, Pensacola Catholic High School, Brown Barge Middle School, Workman Middle School, Scenic Heights Elementary School, B.T. Washington High School, West Florida High School, Aletheia Christian Academy, Episcopal Day School, Cokesbury Methodist Pre-K, Creative Learning Academy.

«We believe children are capable of the kinds of complex learning that people often reserve for middle school, high school, or even college kids,» says

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