Education isnβt about what the teacher does, itβs about what the child learns, write Genius Hour innovators Denise Krebs and Gallit Zvi. Learning happens in every subject when students have a purpose and are given autonomy and time. And their learning can benefit the world.
Future of History / History & Current Events
by MiddleWeb · Published 06/29/2020 · Last modified 08/12/2020
The antiracist protests occurring across the country since the killing of George Floyd have led Lauren Brown and Sarah Cooper β two white female middle school social studies teachers β to consider even more deeply βhow best to teach U.S. history.β Join the conversation.
Assessment of Gifted and High-Ability Learners is a guide to classroom assessment for instructional decisions, using the authorsβ framework, Dynamic Teaching. The book presents a good foundation of three common assessment tools, writes gifted education specialist Kate Boonstra.
Students at ages 9-13 still want to hear their teachers read aloud, want to sit on the rug, want to engage in stories. Jennifer Sniadecki and Jason DeHart share evidence that picture books are also an effective way to teach figurative language and other ELA standards.
Future of History / Pandemic Learning
by Sarah Cooper · Published 06/14/2020 · Last modified 10/19/2022
With her eighth gradersβ online history podcast project now complete, Sarah Cooper shares six takeaways that have helped her imagine not only how to improve this assignment in future iterations, but how she can continue to grow as a teacher facilitating remote learning.
Video documentation is a powerful tool in news reporting, whether itβs done by professional journalists or by ordinary people with instant access to video cameras. Frank Baker looks at the history of news video as a βprimary sourceβ for historians and middle grades teachers.
Pandemic / The Unstoppable ML Teacher
by Tan Huynh · Published 06/08/2020 · Last modified 08/06/2020
As schools investigate safe measures for reopening for summer school or fall classes, educator Tan Huynh shares the specific protocols put into place at his international K-12 school in Vietnam β with details about classroom spacing, traffic flow, and careful hygiene.
How can we keep a positive school climate and culture during remote learning? Chris Edwards, the 7th grade assistant principal at Kreps Middle School, created a grade-wide Google Classroom for students and teachers and staged weekly competitions best described as crazy and fun. It worked!
As a future educator with the dream of having an inclusive classroom for ALL students, Esther Vences found Your Students, My Students, Our Students an essential tool for reimagining schools by implementing the authorsβ five recommended disruptions to the status quo.
Kari Lockhartβs What to Expect When Youβre Expected to Teach Gifted Students touches on two key elements: how to identify gifted students and how to work with their parents. Kolby Wagner expects to find the authorβs strategies for co-teaching and parent engagement helpful.
