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Offers middle school teachers practical advice on how they can adapt their instruction methods to meet the needs of diverse students and cope with the emotional challenges they face in the classroom.
Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, "In the Middle."
This important new book describes everything a middle school teacher should know when teaching adolescents.
This book demonstrates how to make your classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades 6 through 12, this book showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. Differentiated Instruction: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers shows you how to vary your instruction so you can respond to the needs of individual learners. The concrete examples in this book demonstrate how you can use differentiated instruction to clarify: • the content (what you want students to know and be able to do) • the process (how students are going to go about learning the content) • and the product (how they will show you what they know.) This book is uniquely interactive. It features "Reflections" to help you understand your teaching style and guide you towards developing habits of mind which result in effective differentiated instruction. Also included is a chapter on teaching students whose native language is not English.
"This book is centered on the mathematical content of prekindergarten through grade 8. It addresses almost all of the K-8 CCSSM Standards for Mathematical Content from a teacher's perspective, with a focus on how ideas develop and connect and on powerful ways of representing and reasoning about the ideas"--
Congratulations, you're a middle school teacher! But you're exhausted, stressed and under pressure. You've got stuck in a rut and your non-existent work-life balance is giving you a headache. Before you can take care of your students properly, you KNOW you need to take care of yourself! Something has to change. So the question is, what's next? The good news is that you're in the right place. This book will share with you the proven tips & strategies to help you de-stress, improve your health and get your mojo back at home and in the classroom. You'll set up a practical self-care routine that will boost your energy levels and your happiness. Uncover how to finally centre your priorities and l...
Get the "big picture" of teaching reading in the middle school, including research, as well as the practical details you need to help every stydent become a better reader. Veteran teacher Laura Robb shares how to: teach reading strategies across the curriculum, present mini-lessons that deepen students' knowledge of how specific reading strategies work; help kids apply the strategies through guided practice; support struggling readers with a plan of action that improves their reading motivation; and much more.
"Managing Middle School Madness" is a compilation of tips, advice, and information to help parents prepare for the behavioral, social, and academic adjustments that students may encounter. It includes worksheets for parents and children and resources that can be used throughout the middle school years.
There’s more to student success than standards and test scores… Integrating Social and Emotional Learning into a curriculum has been shown to increase personal and school-wide growth. With lifelong success the goal over simply meeting academic thresholds, Teaching Kids to Thrive presents strategies, activities, and stories in an approachable way to develop responsible, self-motivated learners. Uniting social, academic, and self-skills this instrumental resource offers benefits to students such as: Using mindfulness strategies to help students tap their inner strengths Learning to self-regulate and control other executive brain functions Developing growth mindsets along with perseverance and resilience Cultivating a sense of responsibility, honesty, and integrity Encouraging a capacity for empathy and gratitude
Offers advice on navigating the transition from elementary to middle school, from teacher to friends, schoolwork to homework, and lockers to classrooms.