Visit our Schools That Work package about project - based learning in Maine to
read about a middle school and high school that are getting excellent results from mixing PBL with a one - to - one laptop program.
Not exact matches
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.
Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can
read all
about how my daughter, now in
middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a
school lottery.
So I teach at a
middle school - and let's just talk
about how funny (and by funny I mean awkward)...
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middle school reading and literature.
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...
Story Maps and Boxes 6/28/2001 [Language Arts, Literature,
Reading Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Patricia A. Fry] Patricia A. Fry, a teacher at Templeton
Middle School in Sussex, Wisconsin, submitted this week's lesson that has students creating story maps to share information
about books they have
read.
When they complete the castle tour, students in
middle school and above can click More
About Castles to
read The Case of the King Who Was Crazy for Castles.
«We know when we get our primary - age children fired up
about reading, they stay readers all the way through
middle school, and the Accelerated Reader program helps teachers do that,» Ingram explained.
One parent wrote that she had such a great experience with Extreme
Read that it had changed her mind
about middle school — she wanted a «do - over»!
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.
Revolutionary Technology: Students at Suffern
Middle School, in Suffern, New York, created these avatars to represent characters from novels they
read about the American Revolution.
Students at King
Middle School in Portland, Maine are Skyping with authors of the books they
read in English or history classes, and students in the technology education class learn
about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shopping cart.
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 use for higher learning.
Did you really decide to apply to Harvard after
reading about the college in an encyclopedia when you were in
middle school?
By
middle school, when children can «
read to learn»
about these topics, many disadvantaged youngsters are hopelessly behind in their
reading comprehension abilities, precisely because they lack the knowledge base that makes comprehension possible.
Using an article
about labor leader Cesar Chavez's grape boycott and hunger strike, these students at Stuart - Hobson
Middle School are doing a «close
read,» a skill prized by the new Common Core State Standards being put into practice in the District of Columbia.
«I used to have to tell my students
about phenomena, or have them
read; now I can show them,» says Jim Doane, a science teacher at Scarborough
Middle School, in Scarborough, Maine.
At Sutter
Middle School, teacher Monica Sigala's language arts students were learning to perfect the art of letter writing while simultaneously
reading about the contributions of farmworker advocate (and local hero) César Chávez.
Read about how the Edwards
Middle School uses more time to develop a rigorous core curriculum and supplements it with a tiered academic support program called Academic Leagues.
Read about how the Edwards
Middle School uses vacation weeks in February and April to support struggling students, in addition to the expanded day schedule.
Keep in mind that
about a third of TMA's entering ninth - graders start off at or below a fifth - grade level of proficiency in math and
reading, and come from 50 to 60 different
middle schools across Washington, Pardo adds.
Well informed families should continue to opt out of state
schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the undead portions of No Child Left Behind that persist in ESSA — including most especially the required publication of results from annual tests in two subjects only, which information
middle - brow families consume and act upon, leaving the less tuned in behind to wonder
about why their neighbourhoods steadily decline — ...
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about Middle School Mathematics Teachers and Teaching Survey
Read the vignette
about Allewan Regional
Middle School and discuss how Allewan
Middle School allocated and reallocated its resources to support literacy.
Screening data show that only 39 percent of ninth - graders
read at or on grade level, «very much mirroring what we knew
about our
middle school students, says Annie Wolfe, secondary curriculum and development officer.
To learn more
about Butterfield Trail
Middle School and its approach to a whole child education, listen to an episode of the Whole Child Podcast featuring Butterfield staff and
read the full press release.
Growth in math and
reading, as well as family and
school factors that encourage success during the
middle grades years, will be the focus of MGLS: 2017, which will provide evidence
about the effectiveness of
middle grades programs and practices.
In the following activities that can be incorporated into specific curricular areas, * upper elementary and
middle school students will discuss ways they can help prevent bullying behavior,
read about how others have responded to it, and work together to help stop bullying.
The C corresponds to a score of 74.2, which is nearly identical to the
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Peggy Coyne, a Black Hawk
Middle School reading specialist and president - elect of Madison Teachers Inc., said she plans to ask students to write journal entries Tuesday
about what they did while classes were canceled the last four days.
Findings from our 2006 — 2011 Remediation project, as well as findings of low impact from other studies with
middle school students (e.g., Kemple et al., 2008), have raised important questions
about when and how to remediate
reading disabilities with
middle grade students.
The Boston Globe reports that Superintendent Tommy Chang is renewing his push for district - wide...
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Middle Schools: The BTU Weighs In
Our next installment of Tch Video Lounge is here, and we certainly have fun topics to talk
about:
middle school students and
reading!
In Kentucky this year, the percentage of elementary and
middle -
school students who rated «proficient» or better on statewide math and
reading tests declined by
about a third.
Short sentences with content ranging from conversation to real - life scenarios can help
middle school students through ninth - graders learn how to make inferences
about what they have
read.
Robin Hood Chief Program Officer Michael M. Weinstein estimated that, by employing ReServists as tutors, it costs
about $ 10,000 to tutor four
middle school students in
reading every
school day for three years.
Traditionally, content - area focused teachers, particularly in
middle or high
school, have not been trained to teach students how to access rigorous texts, including which disciplinary - specific strategies to use, how to break down and think
about disciplinary text, or how to grapple with difficult questions while
reading closely.
Although the Academic Word List is a good source of cross-content words, it provides limited information
about the frequency of words that students encounter in
middle school reading because it was developed using a body of materials for adult readers.
Researcher M.J. Adams (2006) developed a data breakdown that illustrates how ten minutes of daily book
reading in
middle school will increase a student's exposure to print by
about 700,000 words each year.
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Speaking of authentic preteen pasttimes, Kuehn's books are like those origami fortune tellers you might have made in
middle school (or might have
read about in the
middle grade hit The Secret of the Fortune Wookie: An Origami Yoda Book by Tom Angleberger).
Parents and teachers at Crossroads North
Middle School seek out librarian Kim Zito for help with students who lack enthusiasm
about reading.
Forget everything you know
about dry, dusty profiles that
read like those history books you hated in
Middle School.
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middle school math, science,
reading, and social studies.
About Blog Evaluating instructional strategies, integrating social networking, digital conversations and technology in
middle school math, science,
reading, and social studies.
In the classrooms of the Urban Promise Academy in East Oakland, a summer campus for Aim High, 6th - graders sat on desk tops or stood leaning against desks in a circle and took turns
reading anonymously submitted questions
about middle school life — questions written down on white - lined paper and balled up.
My dad first
read it to me when I entered kindergarten (almost took all year as I completely did not have the attention span for this book but he
read it like a picture book) and then again when I entered
middle school and then we
read it again separately and talked
about it when I entered high
school.