Book Reviews / Teaching Research Skills
by MiddleWeb · Published 12/31/2012 · Last modified 11/14/2019
Energize Research Reading and Writing: Fresh Strategies that Spark Interest, Develop Independence, and Meet Key Common Core Standards, Grades 4-8, a book championing the idea that middle grades students should do more authentic research, “comes not a moment too soon,” says ELA teacher Ariel Sacks.
Here are a few of our favorite MiddleWeb posts from 2012. Our thanks to the educators who have contributed articles, MW blogs, interviews, & book reviews!
STEM By Design / Teacher Preparation
by Anne Jolly · Published 12/16/2012 · Last modified 12/19/2024
Providing STEM students with real-world problems fuels their curiosity & investigative interests. But where do teachers find problems worthy of investigation?
Resource Roundup Collections / Resources
by MiddleWeb · Published 12/10/2012 · Last modified 11/30/2019
Resource Roundups — our theme-based, resource-laden essays — are among MiddleWeb’s most popular features. Here are dozen reader favorites.
Guest blogger Bill Ivey reflects on the prospects of girl-centered organizations to help address the gender gap in STEM career education.
Anne Jolly describes an successful 12-step process used by teacher teams in Mobile AL to design STEM lessons.
Reviewer Anne Jolly finds The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach & Lani Ritter Hall is “a detailed description of how to create my own learning community, expand my own connectedness, and involve others in sharing and learning as well.”
Articles / Teaching the Whole Adolescent
by MiddleWeb · Published 11/13/2012 · Last modified 11/21/2019
Middle grades teacher Mary Tarashuk often yearned to spend more time outside, learning with her students. Now she’s discovered The Walking Classroom program. Problem solved!
Book Reviews / Responding to Wired Students / Student Engagement
by MiddleWeb · Published 11/12/2012 · Last modified 11/17/2019
Reviewer Jenni Miller found Transformational Teaching in the Information Age: Making Why and How We Teach Relevant to Students to be a practical guide written by educators who understand how we must teach students in the age of information overload.
Compare & Contrast: Teaching Comparative Thinking to Strengthen Student Learning, one of a series of books intended for study by professional learning “clubs,” explores a basic strategy of good teaching effectively, says reviewer & NBCT Joni Allison.
