Middle School Matters

Author : Phyllis L. Fagell
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0738235091
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle School Matters written by Phyllis L. Fagell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive. Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of a difference than the setting). Though the transition from childhood to adolescence can be tough for kids, this time of rapid physical, intellectual, moral, social, and emotional change is a unique opportunity to proactively build character and confidence. Fagell helps parents use the middle school years as a low-stakes training ground to teach kids the key skills they'll need to thrive now and in the future, including making good friend choices, negotiating conflict, regulating their own emotions, be their own advocates, and more. To answer parents' most common questions and struggles with middle school-aged children, Fagell combines her professional and personal expertise with stories and advice from prominent psychologists, doctors, parents, educators, school professionals, and middle schoolers themselves.

Author : Peter Mortimore
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520330374
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Matters written by Peter Mortimore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Author : Leif Fearn
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610489527
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Content Matters written by Leif Fearn and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical question in social studies education is not whether teachers develop and teach units of study, but what is in the units of study teachers develop and teach. Curricular planning and instruction must focus on what we teach in the social studies classroom. It is not uncommon for students to experience fine units about the westward movement and exit the fifth grade with little or no geographic literacy. Most students leave middle school grades unable to name even one person who made a difference in the history of Indian people in the United States. After three to five years of history classes, high school students routinely self-report that history is boring. And it is the rare middle school graduate who knows how to use a free enterprise economy for his or her benefit. This book explains the content of nine areas in social studies. If teachers know what history, biographical studies, and the United States Constitution mean for instruction, they can increase the probability of better-focused content in their social studies instruction.

Author : William H. Schmidt
Publisher : International Perspectives on
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher Education Matters written by William H. Schmidt and published by International Perspectives on. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a major international teacher education research project—the Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century Study (MT21)—this book investigates the preservice preparation of middle school mathematics teachers in the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany, Bulgaria, and Mexico. The study was funded by the National Science Foundation and the participating countries. William Schmidt (co-author of the influential TIMSS study on student test results in science and math) and Maria Teresa Tatto (director of the Teacher Education and Development study, or TEDS-M) led a collaborative team of international researchers in this study. Using the results of more than 2,500 surveys, the authors examine the differential contribution of the six countries’ teacher-education models to the knowledge, skills, and dispositions of their future mathematics teachers. Case studies and detailed analyses of the teacher education curriculum across the participating countries provide rich contextual information to explain the survey findings. This study is the first to examine the resource allocation and economic support in teacher education vis-à-vis other mathematics-related professions, and it shows that differential investment patterns are consistent with the level of teaching knowledge found in each country’s new teachers. The book includes a chapter on policy implications, with a special focus on teacher preparation in the United States.

Author : Lisa-Jo Baker
Publisher : WaterBrook
ISBN 13 : 0525652841
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Matters written by Lisa-Jo Baker and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling author of Never Unfriended opens up about midlife and what it feels like to have outgrown those teenage jeans—but finally grown into the shape of our souls. “I want to give Lisa-Jo’s book a standing ovation.”—Aarti Sequeira, chef and TV personality Do you ever wonder how you woke up one day with all the responsibilities of a grown-up who secretly enjoys buying groceries in bulk, can no longer recognize the tween celebrities on the magazines at checkout, but is still surprised when a Starbucks barista calls you “ma’am”—because your inside self is frozen in time to about twenty years ago? So does Lisa-Jo Baker. In these intimate reflections on midlife, Lisa-Jo invites us to get a good look at our middles and gives us permission to embrace them—beyond what the media, the mirror, or the magazines say. Through gutsy, beautiful storytelling, she admits out loud what most of us are thinking about marriage, parenting, the bathroom scale, and how badly we all want to buy those matching Magnolia Market mugs. Her delicious stories come from not being afraid of who she is, because Lisa-Jo knows that the middle might be the best part of the love story of life, kids, faith, doubt, marriage, failure, wonder, and the muffin top—and that these are all good things. She’s not asking you to seize the day, just to make sure you actually see it for all its wildly ordinary glory. Welcome to the middle! Praise for The Middle Matters “What a thought-provoking collection of reflections and wisdom! Through personal stories about love, loss, and life in the middle, Lisa-Jo invites us to take a long look inside our own mind’s secret nooks and crannies, which aren’t nearly as dark, scary, or ordinary as we might think.”—Layla Palmer, The Lettered Cottage blog “With captivating wit, hard-won wisdom, and breathtaking honesty, Lisa-Jo has written a love letter to the delicious middle.”—Mandy Arioto, president and CEO of MOPS International and author of Have More Fun “With Lisa-Jo’s guts as our unfettered guide, may we finally learn the sumptuous truth of our years: that a grilled cheese sandwich without the middle is just toast.”—Erin Loechner, founder of OtherGoose and author of Chasing Slow “Thank you, Lisa-Jo, for reminding women everywhere how important it is to find meaning in the midst of the confusing middle.”—Joy Prouty, artist and educator

Author : Nancy Fordham
Publisher : Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Reading Strategies with Literature that Matters to Middle Schoolers written by Nancy Fordham and published by Scholastic Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2006 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Help students learn and apply key reading strategies while exploring different themes commonly taught in middle school, such as Forging One's Identity, Friendship, Making choices, and the Pioneering Spirit."--p. 4 of cover.

Author : National Writing Project
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118429672
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because Writing Matters written by National Writing Project and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of the best-selling book Because Writing Matters reflects the most recent research and reports on the need for teaching writing, and it includes new sections on writing and English language learners, technology, and the writing process.

Author : Michelle Icard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351861328
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle School Makeover written by Michelle Icard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face. Author Michelle Icard covers a large range of topics, beginning with helping us understand what is happening in the brains of tweens and how these neurological development affects decision-making and questions around identity. She also addresses social media, dating, and peer exclusion. Using both recent research and her personal, extensive experience working with middle-school-aged kids and their parents, Icard offers readers concrete and practical advice for guiding children through this chaotic developmental stage while also building their confidence.

Author : Larry Lewin
Publisher : Teaching Strategies
ISBN 13 : 9780439796040
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Response that Really Matters to Middle Schoolers written by Larry Lewin and published by Teaching Strategies. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help for teachers of disengaged middle school readers is here! This innovative collection of strategies and activities draws on middle schoolers' desire to "be heard" by placing them in the position of reviewer, editor, and critic of their reading assignments. Response activities are designed in purposeful formats including postcards, memos, book reviews, letters to textbook editors, and revision proposals. They also include ideas for differentiating activities to reach students with a range of abilities. For use with Grades 5-9.

Author : Rick Wormeli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003843670
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Day One and Beyond written by Rick Wormeli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your teacher training may have provided sound theory and a collection of instructional techniques, but it's often the practical details that can make day-to-day survival difficult in your first days, weeks, and years of teaching. For new teachers or those just new to the middle-school environment, here is an invaluable resource from the author of Meet Me in the Middle that will help you walk in the door prepared to teach. Oriented toward the unique experience of teaching grades 5 through 9, Day One and Beyond delivers proven best practices along with often-humorous observations that provide a window into the middle school environment. Based on his many years of research and experience in the middle school classroom, Rick offers frontline advice on: practical survival matters, such as what to do the first day and week, setting up the grade book and other record keeping, and what to do if you only have one computer in the classroom;classroom management, including discipline, getting students' attention, and roving classrooms;social issues, like the unique nature of middle-level students, relating to students, and positive relations with parents;professional concerns, from collegiality with teammates to professional resources all middle-level teachers should have.Content and instruction are important, but so are the practical matters that enable sound teaching practice. Day One and Beyond shows middle-level teachers how to manage the physical and emotional aspects of their unique environment so they can do what they've been trained to do: successfully teach young adolescents.