Teachers, maybe even more so those who teach in the middle level, may feel like they are currently under attack. Myths about teaching, especially teaching young adolescents, are circulating in social media, podcasts and other public forums. Here I outline five of these common myths, separating fact from fiction along the way. Myth One: Teachers
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The holiday season is upon us and that can mean madness in our classrooms. Why is that? The truth is, we are often the primary culprit of the chaos. We spend months tirelessly pre-teaching routines and procedures and establishing behavior expectations, only to ease up on them or even abandon them during the holiday season.
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As you may have heard, book banning in schools has become a hot-button issue. The American Library Association recorded an unparalleled number of reported book challenges in 2022, with popular middle grades titles like New Kid by Jerry Craft and Maus by Art Spiegelman among those in contention. This issue impacts not just students, but
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Willow Farquhar selected as winner of the Middle School Student Sound Off For Immediate Release May 2, 2023 What’s it really like being a middle schooler in 2023? Hundreds of students from around the world shared their thoughts on the question, responding to AMLE’s Middle School Sound Off contest held to mark March as Middle
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For immediate release. May 1, 2023 AMLE Presents Initial Findings from its Successful Middle School Research Project Dr. Sarah Pennington attended last month’s American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, one of the world’s largest gatherings of education researchers and policymakers, to present the initial findings of AMLE’s Successful Middle School Research Project. Dr. Pennington,
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This past year, the team at Lincoln Middle School faced a new, unexpected challenge. “We’re a district that never really had a big newcomer population,” said Ivona Wypych, the EL teacher at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, Illinois. That changed when an influx of students, mostly from Ukraine, moved into their community. Their arrival
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