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Disrupting Complacency: Helping Students Find Their Voices through Inquiry, Literature, and Technology
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Seglem, Robyn; Bonner, Sarah – Middle School Journal, 2016
This article highlights an inquiry project in an eighth-grade ELA class in a rural middle school. Using the novel "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers, we encouraged students to form questions relating the text to the larger world. To begin the unit, students participated in three anchor activities over a three-week period. Students blogged…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Grade 9, Rural Schools, Middle School Students
The Middle School Concept in Small Rural Schools: A Two Year Inquiry.
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Tadlock, Martin; LoGuidice, Tom – Middle School Journal, 1994
A survey of representative schools in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois showed that most small and rural schools house middle-level students in buildings primarily designed for elementary or high school students. Middle level students often receive an inappropriate educational program that is not taught by teachers trained to understand and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Educational Facilities, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Helping Younger Dropouts Get Back into School.
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Desmoulin-Kherat, Sharon; Dugger, Chester W. – Middle School Journal, 1996
Describes a program for helping middle school dropouts to enter high school. Details the process for assessing program need; recaps efforts to include younger dropouts in a program; and reports success in determining a solution to the problem of overage students in middle school. Lists 13 program strengths and four criteria for gauging success.…
Descriptors: Continuation Students, Dropout Programs, Dropouts, Middle School Students
An Opportunity for Ownership: Developing a Sense of Community in a Rural Middle School.
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Beneson, Wayne; Steinbeck, Ed – Middle School Journal, 1994
Eureka (Illinois) Middle School has found some user-friendly ways to clarify communication and keep learning personal and accessible. Despite resource deficits, options and output have increased by actively using the school's philosophy: shared ownership for student success. Various community-building programs for students, faculty, and parents…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Communication Problems, Community
Action Councils: An Alternative to Student Council.
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Cole, Chuck; Proctor, Vikki – Middle School Journal, 1994
Teachers at a laboratory middle school in Evanston, Illinois, reconceptualized and revitalized an ailing student council according to some meaningful goals: empowering and involving all students, creating an atmosphere for cooperative action, and offering opportunities for service. There are three main arms to this action council (service,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cooperative Programs, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Putting Poetry in Its Place.
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Fuhler, Carol J. – Middle School Journal, 1994
Describes an eighth-grade teacher's decision to heed innervoices and make time for poetry in her classroom. The class began by reading fun-filled, picture-book poetry; enlisted the help of school and town librarians in finding compelling single-author works and anthologies; and finally wrote "recipe poems" together. (Contains 27…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Intermediate Grades, Literature Appreciation, Middle Schools
Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Change.
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Barclay, Kathy H.; Lane, Judith – Middle School Journal, 1993
Discusses collaboration between a teacher and an education professor in developing and implementing a new reading/language-arts program in a fifth-grade classroom. The move from a traditional basal reading and language-arts textbook approach to one using novels and process writing meant many changes for both teacher and students. An Author's…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Language Arts, Middle Schools, Program Development