I am a 7th and 8th
grade middle school social studies teacher.
Not exact matches
Milestones End - of - Grade (EOG) exams are administered every spring in
Grades 3 - 8 in the subjects of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and
Social Studies; Milestones End - of - Course (EOC) exams are administered for designated high
school courses... and,
middle school students who are taking any of those courses for high
school credit must also take the EOC for that subject.
Brian Hendrickson, a sixth -
grade social studies teacher at Hillcrest
Middle School, in Trumbull, Connecticut, polled his students to find out how they feel their male teachers differed from their female teachers.
Harvard Graduate
School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th
grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the
middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th
grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th
grade students reading at 3rd - 4th
grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer),
social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).
The role of leader at the elementary
school and
middle school levels could be assigned to a teacher at each
grade level for reading, writing,
social studies, and so on.
Standards and Accountability: Tennessee has clear and specific standards in English, science, and
social studies / history at the elementary and
middle school levels, and in mathematics in all
grade spans.
Standards and Accountability: Colorado has clear and specific standards for English, mathematics, and science in all
grade spans, but it has such standards only at the
middle school level for
social studies / history.
Members of Bennet
Middle School's seventh
grade Royal 7 team faced off in their
social studies classes on the issue of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
The interests ranged from kindergarten through
grade 12, so some students were learning to become high
school math teachers, some were working on
middle school social studies, and some of us, like me, were learning about beginning reading in elementary
school.
Pam Chandler, a sixth -
grade English, reading, and
social studies teacher at Sequoia
Middle School in Redding, California, defines the roles her students take on in literature circles in this way:
On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th
grade language arts /
social studies teacher at Salem
Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develo
School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with
Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National
School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develo
School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C.,
school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional develo
school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.
At Mooresville
Middle School he walks into a seventh
grade social studies class where the laptops are on, but no one is working alone.
Based on a quick visit, I'd say Molly McPherson's seventh -
grade social studies class at Ranson
Middle School is a special one.
Adam Wellington, an eighth -
grade social studies teacher at Coal Ridge
Middle School, details how the support helped teachers during those early days of integrating technology en masse.
The activity can be used in a variety of
social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international
studies — and in both the upper elementary
grades and
middle school.
Ronald Tabano has over 40 years experience in education beginning his work as a 6th
grade teacher, moving to teaching
social studies and ELA at the
middle and high
school levels, eventually becoming an Assistant Principal.
The participants in this qualitative research
study were a 13 - year veteran
social studies teacher and the student intern who worked with this teacher during a year - long professional development
school experience in a culturally and economically diverse
middle grades school.
Two Federal Hocking (OH)
Middle School teachers — Robin Hawk, an eighth -
grade social studies teacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh -
grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local
Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher education.
The units are designed to complement sixth, seventh, and eighth
grade middle school curricula in
social studies.
VocabularySpellingCity provides a wide range of
social studies vocabulary lists for elementary and
middle school students, from
grades K through 8, covering geography, sociology, anthropology, humanities, economics, history, and more.
During
middle school, for example, students from elementary
schools that had implemented the Developmental
Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform
middle school students from comparison elementary
schools on academic outcomes (higher
grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and
social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in
school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).
Crook County
Middle School sixth
grade math and
social studies teacher Heidi Lea, aka Cricket, calls on a student while asking questions after students surveyed the aquatic wildlife in Suttle Lake in the Deschutes National Forest in May.
While the tensions between our two overarching perspectives are more complex than what we have described, long discussions related to that conflict caused us to work together to examine how a veteran
social studies teacher and his student teacher in a local
middle grades school perceived and implemented technology in their classroom.
Trish Lowe, a sixth
grade social studies teacher at Durant Road
Middle School in Wake Forest, won't be one of them.
Practice with other ready made vocabulary word lists in seventh
grade science,
middle school social studies, and seventh
grade literature.
James Encinas teaches fourth
grade at Westminster Avenue Elementary
School; Kyle Hunsberger teaches math at Cochran
Middle School; Michael Stryer, a former Fairfax High
School social studies teacher, leads teacher union reform efforts at Future is Now
Schools
She served as a classroom science, math and
social studies teacher, in
grades 4 through 8, first at John F. Long Elementary
School in Phoenix, Arizona from 2005 to 2007, followed by White Pine
Middle School in Saginaw, Michigan from 2007 to 2011.
Today's guest, Michael Matera, is a
middle school social studies teacher who runs a sixth
grade game - based history class.
In a sixth -
grade classroom in Greensboro, N.C., a dozen
middle -
school social -
studies teachers were getting their second of three days of training on tablets that had been presented to them as a transformative educational tool.
Peter began his career as a teacher at Lombard
Middle School in Baltimore, where he taught eighth
grade Social Studies from 1993 until 1998.
Nancy began her career in education in a charter
school in Washington, D.C., teaching and developing
social studies curriculum for
middle grades.
The Bachelor of Arts in
Middle Level Humanities is for students seeking careers in teaching English language arts and social studies (economics, history, geography, social studies and civics) in middle school, which covers grades fifth through e
Middle Level Humanities is for students seeking careers in teaching English language arts and
social studies (economics, history, geography,
social studies and civics) in
middle school, which covers grades fifth through e
middle school, which covers
grades fifth through eighth.
She has taught seventh and eighth
grade English / language arts /
social studies at Fairhaven
Middle School, Bellingham, WA, for the past 12 years.
Upon returning to Gilbert H. Hood
Middle School in 2003 as a
Social Studies teacher, he taught 6th and 7th
grade until becoming an Assistant Principal from 2005 to 2013.
After beginning his educational career in 2000 as a
Social Studies teacher at Gilbert H. Hood
Middle School, Joe spent one year teaching in a 5th
grade classroom at Lowell Community Charter
School in Lowell, MA.
Petrey - Kirk, an 8th -
grade social studies teacher at Anderson County
Middle School, represented KEA.
A student in Jennifer Harmsen's seventh -
grade social studies classroom at Hillsborough
Middle School watches a video on his Chromebook about life in ancient Rome.
Jermall Wright Jermall Wright started his career in education in 1997 as a 5th
grade and
middle school social studies teacher in Jacksonville, FL..
A promising direction for future prevention
studies would be to test a combination of the elementary
grade interventions used here with
middle school curricula that seek to promote norms against health - risk behaviors such as drug use and to enhance life skills to resist health - compromising
social influences.3, 6,7,31