Chris Hull is a regular Teacher Voices contributor to our blog and
teaches middle school social studies in Chicago.
Rodriguez focused on social studies education at Boston University as an undergraduate and, most recently,
taught middle school social studies at a turnaround school, what she describes as «the lowest - achieving school for over 25 years in Hartford,» where 100 percent of students were black or Latino and qualified for free or reduced - price lunch.
In
Teaching Middle School Social Studies III, Ali Brown — director of history achievement for the Achievement First schools — asked her class to write an «essential question» that would frame a unit they were soon to teach on the American Revolution.
This is a guest post by Christine Sugrue, who has
taught middle school social studies in the New York City Public Schools since 1999.
Ms. O'Brien joined the Brooke Mattapan team in 2012 after having
taught middle school Social Studies in California.
Dr. Dan Bowen
taught middle school social studies at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School as a member of ACE 13 before pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Arkansas in education policy.
He taught middle school Social Studies and high school Theatre Arts in Grand Prairie Texas.
Before attending law school, Kevin
taught middle school social studies in the Baltimore City Public Schools.
Jonah began his career
teaching middle school social studies in Baltimore through Teach For America.
Not exact matches
The study, published in The Journal of
Social Studies Research, shows iCivics is an effective tool for
teaching civics concepts to primary and
middle school students.
About Blog
Teaching social studies and history for
middle school in Florida.
I have
taught middle school reading, language arts,
social studies, science, industrial technology, life skills, and careers education.
Anyone can ask for help and support - whether you're looking for ideas for
teaching the Civil War to
middle schoolers, or resources to help make the case for allowing
social media in the classroom.
The subject is being
taught more widely in stand - alone courses — mostly in
middle schools — and its content and methods are being integrated into history, economics, and other parts of the
social studies curriculum, geographers say.
«
Middle schools need a reliable structure to build community,
teach (rather than assume)
social skills, and prepare students for learning each day,» observes Linda Crawford, executive director of Origins, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering learning and community in
schools and other educational institutions.
Teach Social Skills to Middle Schoolers Middle school students should be explicitly taught social development s
Social Skills to
Middle Schoolers Middle school students should be explicitly
taught social development s
social development skills.
This isn't to say that children older than
middle -
schoolers who have not directly experienced
social and emotional learning in
school, are a lost cause, but, as Jones attests, as children become older the approach may need to be different in
teaching these lessons.
For more on the use of simulations to
teach the
social sciences, you may also want to read Aaron Kaio's «Civic Mirror: Simulated National Building for
Middle Schoolers.»
When Shoemaker was
teaching middle school science and
social studies classes, her students wanted to know why gadgets use different kinds of batteries, so she created what she thought would be a quick - and - easy project: She put together an Excel spreadsheet of battery data and asked students to create a graphic that visually represented the information.
Like so many others in the
teaching profession, we struggled to find ways to bring history and
social studies to life for our
middle school students.
Historia is a curriculum - aligned
social studies simulation and strategy game that
teaches middle school world history and cultures, economics, geography and government through interactive gameplay.
After graduation, the Grand Rapids, Michigan native is ready to begin his
teaching career as a
middle school social studies teacher in his adopted hometown of Boston, putting this lesson — and the others learned in the Teacher Education Program (TEP)-- into practice.
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Matthew Farber
teaches social studies at Valleyview
Middle School, in Denville, New Jersey.
Transforming
Teaching and Learning Through
Social Movement in Mexican Public
Middle Schools
Lauren S. Brown
taught U.S. history, sociology and world geography in public
middle and high
schools, supervised
social studies pre-service teachers at Northern Illinois University, and has now returned to the
middle school history classroom.
A nominee for Maryland Teacher of the Year, Bender has
taught reading, English, math, history,
social studies, and science to emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, gifted, and average students in elementary,
middle, and high
schools.
Responsive Classroom is an evidence - based approach to elementary and
middle school teaching that focuses on the strong link between academic success and
social - emotional learning (SEL).
He
taught middle -
school science and
social studies for seven years before serving another seven years as an assistant principal.
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.
After several great years
teaching middle school English Language Arts and Social Studies at Brooke Mattapan, Ms. Scharfstein is excited to join the Brooke High School comm
school English Language Arts and
Social Studies at Brooke Mattapan, Ms. Scharfstein is excited to join the Brooke High
School comm
School community.
His specific areas of course instruction include foundations of American education, instructional design, program evaluation, student assessment and NCLB legislation, content area literacy, literacy foundations,
teaching writing in elementary and
middle school settings,
social foundations of education, and literature in the classroom.
The course also sought to support these TCs in any challenges they encountered when
teaching social studies in a
middle school or high
school classroom.
Classroom Discipline is the second book in Origins» Best Practices Series reflecting the foundational beliefs and practices of the Developmental Designs for
Middle School approach to integrating
social and academic
teaching and learning.
Before that, she
taught social studies for two years at T.T. Knight
Middle School, a public school in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also chaired the History Depar
School, a public
school in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also chaired the History Depar
school in Louisville, Kentucky, where she also chaired the History Department.
Kimberly began her career by joining
Teach for America,
teaching middle school English, Social Studies, and Health at Harlem's Roberto Clemente S
school English,
Social Studies, and Health at Harlem's Roberto Clemente
SchoolSchool.
Bridget's research interests stem from her time serving as a department chair and
teaching history, English, and
social sciences in
middle and high
school.
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The interactive online
social studies games and activities
teach both spelling and in - context usage for
middle schoolers.
As one
middle school social studies teacher told the RFA researchers: «It has made me focus more on the [literacy] side of
teaching rather than just history.
At the time of this writing, Methods for
Teaching Secondary
Social Studies has been restructured, students have registered, and ArcView and ArcVoyager software programs have been installed at Hartwick and at Oneonta
Middle School.
Beyond that, these five resources help educators integrate SEL into
teaching practice in elementary English Language ARts, high
school English Language Arts, elementary Mathematics,
middle school Social Studies, and general strategies that may be used across all subject areas to support the five SEL core competencies (self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - m
Social Studies, and general strategies that may be used across all subject areas to support the five SEL core competencies (self - awareness, self - management,
social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - m
social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.
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
Phillip Young, Gifted
Social Studies Teacher, Haralson County
Middle School Mr. Young started teaching gifted Social Studies at our school last year (he was previously employed in Dougla
School Mr. Young started
teaching gifted
Social Studies at our
school last year (he was previously employed in Dougla
school last year (he was previously employed in Douglas Co).
So maybe I'm a
social studies teacher, I'm
teaching middle school, I'm teaching high school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as
school, I'm
teaching high
school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as
school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary
School as
School as well.
After
teaching middle school for 13 years in the Fort Mill, SCSchool District, where she
taught middle school science,
socials studies, and computer technology, she left the K - 12 environment and began to work full time at Winthrop University.
I have
taught Middle School English Language Arts and
Social Studies and supported teachers as an Academic Coach.
Developed by Catherine Snow and Claire White, Word Generation is a research - based vocabulary program for
middle school students that
teaches words through language arts, mathematics, science, and
social studies classes.
Julie began her
teaching career at Newton
school in 2000, where she team
taught middle school students English and
social studies with Joey Hawkins.
Matt joined
Teach For America after graduation and
taught social studies and math for two years at Liberty Collegiate Academy, a charter
middle school in East Nashville.