Teaching Current Events
How can busy history teachers incorporate current events into their lesson planning? Our new Future of History bloggers share their 4-part approach.
Future of History / History & Current Events
by Jody & Shara · Published 06/23/2013 · Last modified 11/26/2019
How can busy history teachers incorporate current events into their lesson planning? Our new Future of History bloggers share their 4-part approach.
STEM & the Makers Movement / STEM By Design
by Anne Jolly · Published 06/23/2013 · Last modified 11/23/2019
The authors of “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom” share an exciting guest post at Anne Jolly’s STEM Imagineering blog. The tools and ethos of the maker revolution offer insight and hope for middle schools and for science and math studies, they say. “The breadth of options and the ‘can-do’ attitude is exactly what students need.”
Book Reviews / Professional Development
by MiddleWeb · Published 06/20/2013 · Last modified 12/14/2019
Reviewer Laura Von Staden finds the sessions in The Ten-Minute Inservice: 40 Quick Training Sessions that Build Teacher Effectiveness succinct & informative, useful to teachers as well as administrators.
Through research and counseling, professor & author Lisa Hinkelman has learned what girls really want adults to know about their lives and how to help them thrive.
“Having this book in my bag is like having my own coach nearby,” says reviewer & elementary coach Katie Gordon. Elena Aguilar has “laid it out from beginning to end” in The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation.
Media literacy consultant Frank Baker makes the case that students should be writing scripts and screenplays as part of their schoolwork.
Two Teachers in the Room / Universal Design for Learning
by Elizabeth Stein · Published 06/16/2013 · Last modified 11/24/2019
How is the Universal Design for Learning like a trip to the beach with 30 friends and relatives? We can count on Two Teachers blogger Elizabeth Stein to tell us!
STEM studies aren’t keeping up with STEM career opportunities. The solution? More girls! Anne Jolly has six new ideas to boost female interest & participation.
Book Reviews / Common Core State Standards
by MiddleWeb · Published 06/16/2013 · Last modified 11/16/2019
In Big Skills for the Common Core: Literacy Strategies for the 6 -12 Classroom, Amy Benjamin & Michael Hugelmeyer provide Common Core literacy strategies with easy-to-use charts & guides for 6-12 students, say a pair of MiddleWeb reviewers.
In Mentoring and Coaching Tips: How Educators Can Help Each Other, reviewer Jenni Miller reports that Sheryn Waterman writes in helpful ways about how educators can support new teachers and others through effective mentoring and coaching.
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