Not exact matches
-- Jeremy Keeshin, cofounder and CEO
of CodeHS, an online platform to teach computer science in high
schools and
middle schools used by hundreds
of thousands
of students
Other possible changes may include a greater
use of technology in the classroom or at home, or increased
student responsibility (often the grade levels in preparation before transitioning to
middle or high
school).
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.
Using longitudinally linked,
student - level data collected from two urban
school districts, New York City and Washington, DC, Mathematica estimated the impacts
of five EL
middle schools on
students» reading and math test scores.
A dramatic spike in the
use of a particular type
of electronic cigarette among
middle and high
school students has local parents, educators and activists, clamoring for action.
The health department says in the last ten years,
use of tobacco products by High
School students declined by 37 %, and smoking by
Middle School students decreased by 54 %.
And while the CDC reported that the percentage
of middle and high
school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the
use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period
of time.
Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12
students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700
middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where
students can
use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles
of weather and climate.
With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank
of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for
use in
middle and early high
school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department
of Education is funding the development
of assessment instruments for evaluating
students» understanding
of energy concepts from elementary through high
school.
The assessment materials,
used to measure
students» understanding
of the sciences in
middle and early high
school, will be amplified by Naiku, a Minnesota - based company whose assessment platform reaches teachers around the country, and a Canadian consortium that includes McGill University in Montreal.
They
used a nationally representative sample
of 5,593
middle and high
school students between the ages
of 12 and 17 years old living in the United States to find out how many youth participated in digital self - harm, as well as their motivations for such behavior.
The study
of nearly 40,000 youth around the country also found that e-cigarette
use among
middle and high
school students doubled between 2011 and 2012, from 3.1 percent to 6.5 percent.
But the authors noted that about 20 percent
of middle school students and about 7 percent
of high
school students who had ever
used e-cigarettes had never smoked regular cigarettes — meaning that some kids are introduced to the addictive drug nicotine through e-cigarettes, the authors said.
In Project 2061's
middle school unit,
students use LEGOs and ball - and - stick models to make sense
of the production
of new substances in terms
of atom rearrangement and conservation.
Comparing three online testing modalities:
Using static, active, and interactive online testing modalities to assess
middle school students» understanding
of fundamental ideas and
use of inquiry skills related to econsystems.
Researchers from The Pennsylvania State University conducted an intervention to test the effect
of using herbs and spices to increase vegetable intake in rural
middle and high
school students.
Baltimore
school officials are standing by their decision to
use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part
of a strategy to engage
middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.
As Ross
used to tell his fourth grade
students, «In
middle and high
school, when all
of your friends are messing around on social media, I want you to be
using it to grow your own businesses!»
As Pam Van Walleghen, a teacher at Urbana
Middle School in Urbana, Illinois, testified, «Giving
students the opportunity to do «real science»
using state -
of - the - art technology is about as exciting as education can get.»
Under this plan, which has been
used since 1975 in high
schools and since 1977 in junior - high and
middle schools,
school food - service personnel are required to offer full servings
of five foods — meat, milk, bread, and two fruits and / or vegetables — and
students must take at least three...
A group
of students and teachers at White Brook
Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts,
use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bullying.
To his credit, when I talked to him about three
of his projects — WoWinSchool (WoW
used with
middle school children), Minecraft (
used with elementary
students), and SAGA (Story and Game Academy)-- Gillispie repeatedly deflected credit from himself to his professional peers and administration.
Meanwhile, Chesterfield
middle school students recorded each step
of the project to create a documentary film that the district now
uses for professional development about technology integration.
This variety
of sources can leave
middle and high
school students confused about which techniques to
use to comprehend, analyze, and synthesize what's in front
of them, as well as which reading to...
In the typical mathematics classroom, especially in the
middle years
of schooling, we tend to
use one model to connect maths with the real world; we start by teaching the maths content and skills, we then get
students to practice and do some maths, and then we next might apply some
of those skills into a real world context by
using learning activities such as word problems.
For example, one
middle school lesson about the properties
of exponents involved providing one property, XAXB = XA+B, and having
students use that to methodically derive each following exponent property
using only the ones they had previously proved.
Middle School Teachers,
Students, Combat Teasing A group of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce b
Students, Combat Teasing A group
of students and teachers at White Brook Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts, use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce b
students and teachers at White Brook
Middle School in Easthampton, Massachusetts,
use seminars and discussions to courage tolerance for others and reduce bullying.
An Attitude
of Gratitude
Middle -
school students think «outside the box» to identify unusual things they're thankful for, and then
use digital content (audio, images, movies) to represent those things on a PowerPoint slide.
Our
school is mid-pivot in technology — we're in our second year
of a
middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year
of having a cart
of iPads available for elementary, and our last year
of two PC labs for the
students to
use (next year we'll have only one lab).
In our
middle school makerspace,
students have been
using a variety
of tools and technologies in a variety
of projects and activities.
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).
Instead we need to be doing what an increasing number
of schools like another Arizona - based
school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great re
school, the Carpe Diem Collegiate High
School and Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great re
School and
Middle School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to use existing resources to prioritize student learning and achieve great re
School, are doing and disrupting that flawed paradigm by implementing online learning to create a
student - centric system — not to increase costs for the community through bond measures or otherwise, as the article reports — but to
use existing resources to prioritize
student learning and achieve great results.
Another study examines the effects
of participation in a G&T program offered within regular
middle schools to
students who were just barely deemed eligible to participate as compared to those who just missed becoming eligible, based on the «identification matrix» scores the district
used.
He
used data from Wake County, North Carolina, to study how start times affect the performance
of middle school students on standardized tests.
The free resources, field - tested by teachers, are being
used in
middle school, high
school, and college classes, building the pipeline
of students interested in STEM careers.
Students, especially
middle schoolers, love the humor
of the tool and quickly learn to
use it to «help» others find information.
As with many other successful data - driven
schools, at Elm City the work begins before
school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the
middle school —
use a variety
of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels
of their incoming
students.
Use this set
of challenging algebraic puzzles this Christmas season with your
middle school students.
In this study, I
use data from Wake County, North Carolina, to examine how start times affect the performance
of middle school students on standardized tests.
As this suggests, this method can only be
used for the roughly 28 percent
of students in my sample whose
middle school changed its start time while they were enrolled.
activity sheet challenges your
middle - grades and high -
school students to
use their dictionaries to help them figure out which
of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each
of the ten sentences on the Vocab - u-lous!
Specific strategies for
middle school administrators to use to improve academic achievement and better prepare students for high school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princ
school administrators to
use to improve academic achievement and better prepare
students for high
school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association of Secondary School Princ
school are outlined in a report released last week by the National Association
of Secondary
School Princ
School Principals.
William Sanders, formerly
of the University
of Tennessee and now at the SAS Institute, has done pioneering work to develop a system
of value - added assessment,
using the results
of annual tests administered to all elementary and
middle -
school students in Tennessee.
The
School of One manages these feats (currently, just for middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and
School of One manages these feats (currently, just for
middle school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and
school math) by collecting data on which learning objectives
students have mastered and how they like to learn, then assigning them each day to appropriate lessons — making
use of traditional instruction, small group instruction, solo tutoring, online tutoring, computer - assisted instruction, and so on.
Because the studies
use data from a single
school year to contrast
students in
middle schools and K — 8
schools, most
of the available research can not reject the possibility that differences between the groups
of students, rather than in the grade configuration
of their
schools, are actually responsible for the differences in behavior and achievement.
We then
used that prediction to place each
student into one
of the two groups we are comparing, that is,
students who attend
middle schools and those who do not.
activity sheet challenges your
middle - grades and high -
school students to
use their dictionaries to help them figure out which
of nine challenging Word Bank words fits in each
of the ten sentences (one word gets
used twice) on the Vocab - u-lous!
In this study, we
use detailed
student - level data to compare patterns
of entry, attrition, and replacement in 19 KIPP
middle schools and in traditional public
middle schools in the districts in which the KIPP
schools are located.
Providing
students with opportunities to teach each other — as this
middle school student does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques used at New York City's School of the F
school student does in his science class — is one
of many assessment techniques
used at New York City's
School of the F
School of the Future.
Much can be learned from the theoretical frameworks discussed here, which can be
used as a guide for future research into the efficacy
of computer - assisted reading interventions on struggling
middle school students.