We owe it to our middle school students to be caring, to be present, and to be their advocates I like to read. Fiction and nonfiction. Mystery. Crime. Middle grades. Biography. Memoir. Political. Children’s. Academic articles. Newspapers. Satire. All over the board. I read a lot because inspiration comes from everything. One of my current
A strategy to embrace all students I started my teaching career in high school English for two years before I transitioned to middle school, or what I always referred to as teaching-topia. I taught seventh grade for nine years, and during that time I had the opportunity to connect and collaborate with more than 1000 students.
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One school’s approach to rethinking advisory From our first days on campus, it was clear that the school had once been committed to an advisory program. There were dusty advisory binders in the corners of classrooms, and many teachers remained passionate about the aims and some features of the program, but it no longer had
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Successful advisory programs can have significant positive impacts on student engagement Does this sound familiar? Advisory programs? What a waste of time! Students just goof around. Advisory programs? Great idea, but who’s going to put it together? I’m way too busy already. Advisory programs? What we need is more time for academics, not less. Advisory
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Making connections with advisory is so much fun When we first began creating our advisory program, its purpose was to replace a 30-minute homeroom embedded in our day. One of the problems with advisory at the time was that teachers were struggling to create worthwhile activities. We needed a better plan and an advisory program
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Teaming, at its best, is a collaborative act that rewards the faculty who engage with it socially, emotionally, and intellectually. Those fortunate enough to have a group of colleagues as a teaching team know it provides a support system that is a powerful way to manage stress in these days of “high-stakes,” well, nearly everything.
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