Use these strategies to help
middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read.
Believe it or not, having
middle and high school students identify ads on web pages is also an important skill, as is identifying sponsored content and articles that are fluff written to simply draw readers to a site that sells ad space.
Not exact matches
This curriculum for
middle and high school students includes classroom activities, identification sheets
and a dichotomous key for
identifying salt marsh plants,
and data sheets for salt marsh field trips utilizing lessons developed by Kristen Grant
and the salt marsh science protocols developed by Dr. Robert Buchsbaum
and Dr. David Burdick.
The questions have been field - tested by over 100,000
middle school and early
high school students for their ability to assess
students» knowledge of life
and physical sciences
and to
identify students» common misconceptions about the sciences.
Let
Students Solve Problems
Students should be provided, as part of their regular educational experiences in
middle school and high school, with frequent opportunities to
identify a problem they have an interest in, study it, think through options to address it,
and design solutions.
While the study explores
middle,
high school,
and college
students, two of the exercises lend themselves nicely for assessing critical thinking skills in upper elementary instruction: an analysis of a home page where
students identify advertisements on a news website
and an evaluation of a photograph published on a photo sharing website.
Andrea D. Hanford began her career in education 24 years ago as a teacher of
middle and high school students with behavioral disorders
identified as Emotionally or Severely Emotionally Handicapped.
«As a result,
middle grade practitioners are grappling with questions about what skills
students need to succeed in
high school, which markers they should use to gauge whether
students are ready to succeed in
high school and beyond,
and whether it is possible to
identify in
middle grades
students who are likely to struggle in
high school and college.»
Attitudes belong to all layers of a person's identity, whether it is their role in
schools as a
student, teacher, paraprofessional, janitor,
school board member, or bus driver; as a member of a racial or ethnic group; whether a person is an English Language Learner, is fluent in multiple languages, or is a non-English speaker;
and whether a person
identifies as poor, working class, low - income,
middle income or
high income.
A team of 17 mathematics educators
and middle and high school teachers read 859 articles on
students» algebraic thinking
and identified what might be useful for preservice teachers.
GradTracker is a tool developed to help
schools identify students» progress toward graduation in the elementary,
middle school and high school grades.
It's important that districts
identify middle school students who need intervention
and take steps to get them back on grade level
and really ready for
high school.
Once we
identify benchmarks at each level (primary, upper elementary,
middle school,
and high school), we will determine what skills
and knowledge
students need to learn to meet those benchmarks.
The Renzulli Learning Personal Success Plan walks
middle school and high school students through each step to define their interests,
identify heroes
and helpers, explore career options, set goals, make plans
and develop projects.
The
school system was under a desegregation order from the U.S. Department of Justice,
and Lakeview
Middle, with its
high population of poor
students, was
identified as having vestiges of inequity.
Middle School Identification
Students identified as a
high ability
student and participating in
high ability programming, will continue to receive services unless they are withdrawn through our exit procedures.
AIR
and school and district staff work together to develop an early warning system to
identify and track
students at risk of falling behind in
middle school and high school and dropping out.
NASSP's position statement on Tracking
and Ability Grouping in
Middle Level
and High Schools suggests that principals should provide a safe
and personalized learning environment for each
student while also
identifying a set of essential learnings in which
students must demonstrate competency in order to move to the next level.
NASSP has
identified a number of
high - achieving
middle and high schools that are serving large numbers of low - income students in a program called Breakthrough S
schools that are serving large numbers of low - income
students in a program called Breakthrough
SchoolsSchools.
Not surprisingly, another subgroup that is often subjected to
school discipline —
students with disabilities — continued to be even under the new CPS system: Out - of -
school suspension rates for
students with
identified disabilities were 24 percent at the
high school level
and 16 percent in
middle grades in the 2013 - 14
school year.
The PDE has developed the PA Early Warning System (EWS), which uses attendance, behavior,
and course - grade data to help
schools identify middle school students at risk of dropping out before graduating
high school.
Designed for
middle and high school students, this program explores the various types of relationships that may exist in our lives, learn different communications styles,
and identify and differentiate between «healthy»
and «unhealthy» relationships.