In her 2nd month of hybrid teaching, Kasey Short is still adapting day by day through trial and error. She’s learned a lot, as you’ll see in this detailed look at her virtual/in-person blending, digital organization, communication, collaboration and feedback β with tips for each!
In a school year when frustration, fatigue and uncertainty make teaching and learning an unprecedented challenge, principal Rita Platt is leading her staff to focus on two top priorities: (1) limit instruction to essential standards, and (2) build personal connections with EVERY student.
Whether your ELA, social studies or media literacy students are tracking advertising on Madison Avenue or Capitol Hill, expert Frank W. Baker has the tools and ideas you need to blend this high engagement topic into standards-based lessons on analyzing informational text.
Gholdy Muhammad shows how educators can achieve a transformation in equitable education by implementing a framework of Historically Responsive Literacy based in identity development, skill development, intellectual development, and criticality, writes teacher Nicole Warchol.
PBL expert Dayna Laur packs her book with 8 chapters of learning sciences-based practical examples, offering authentic challenges and connecting content standards to teensβ real lives. The complex student-centered activities earn a thumbs up from teacher Susi Durand.
Worry, anger and fear are not worthy expenditures of a teacherβs precious energy, writes Dina Strasser, as she prepares for a pandemic fall in a new school. βI am inviting us to look upon our exhaustion as a gift. It will teach us what is necessary and what is not.β
Educators of English learners and marginalized students owe much to the scholarship of James Cummins, who has helped dispel myths around home language use, developed the concept of social and academic language, and provided actionable strategies to empower learners.
Kathryn Caprino and Sean Ruday encourage you to include inquiry in your teaching this fall, whether itβs face to face, in remote settings, or a blend. The literacy educators share 5 tips with cross-curricular application to engage kids in the pursuit of essential questions.
Articles / Social Studies / Speech & Debate
by MiddleWeb · Published 08/25/2020 · Last modified 10/13/2024
Is it possible to get middle school students to talk respectfully to one another, especially if they donβt agree? Award-winning middle grades history teacher Jennifer Ingold considered this a challenge and set out to integrate debate into her Enduring Issues units. Hereβs how!
As teachers and students are tossed by the currents of Covid-19, Katie Durkin plans to anchor and then expand her 7th gradersβ views of themselves as readers by puzzling out a reading identity, reflecting and planning for the horizon, and charting a path forward.
