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Lesseig, Kristin; Slavit, David; Nelson, Tamara Holmlund – Middle School Journal, 2017
Given the current emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education and its key attributes, middle school is an optimal time to implement STEM-based curricula. However, the interdisciplinary and open-ended nature of STEM projects often makes implementation difficult. In this article, we describe a professional development…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Interdisciplinary Approach
Faulkner, Shawn A.; Cook, Chris M.; Thompson, Nicole L.; Howell, Penny B.; Rintamaa, Margaret F.; Miller, Nicole C. – Middle School Journal, 2017
For middle schools to fully achieve their goals, it is important for them to be staffed with teachers who understand the unique developmental needs of young adolescents and are specifically prepared to meet those needs. Middle school leaders have long been advocates of specialized teacher preparation and licensure; however, the current terrain of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Middle School Teachers, Leaders
Batchelor, Katherine E. – Middle School Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to introduce text sets of picture books that address 10 ancient civilizations commonly taught in middle school and also offer instructional strategies that could be used for critical and multicultural literacy exploration. Beginning with discussion of the importance of picture books and text sets in the middle school…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Middle School Students, Reading Instruction, World History
Maunakea, Summer P.; Simanu, Crystal; Suluai-Mahuka, Sabrina – Middle School Journal, 2022
This study takes a transnational and collaborative approach to explore how Pacific Island educators are using web 2.0 technology to enhance instruction and facilitate culturally sustaining learning opportunities for emergent bilingual and multilingual students. It is also an analysis of the digital divide for young adolescent users due to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Samoan Americans
Shapiro, Mary; Grossman, Diane; Carter, Suzanne; Martin, Karyn; Deyton, Patricia; Hammer, Diane – Middle School Journal, 2015
Why do girls perform so well academically yet lose ground as professional women? This diminishing number of women up the leadership hierarchy is often referred to as the "leaky pipeline," and attributed to many factors: external ones such as work environments not conducive to work/life balance, and internal ones such as women's own…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Females, Barriers, Career Development
Rodríguez-Castro, Mónica; Salas, Spencer; Benson, Tracey – Middle School Journal, 2018
LaRocque, Kleiman, and Darling (2011) characterized parental involvement as the "missing link" in school achievement. For this reason, especially, middle grades teachers and teacher leaders want very much to reach out to newcomer Latino families--and they do. Although Google Translate™ has emerged as a go-to tool for many teachers and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Courseware, Translation, Language Skills
Giorgis, Cyndi; Johnson, Nancy J. – Middle School Journal, 2022
In using wordless picture books, teachers enhance the reading experience while fostering, nurturing, and broadening students' reading and writing skills. Wordless picture books are accessible to "all" students. They encourage and require readers to slow down as they inhabit and comprehend the story told through art, symbolism, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Picture Books, Creative Writing, Reading Instruction
Howell, Penny B.; Rintamaa, Margaret; Faulkner, Shawn; DiCicco, Mike – Middle School Journal, 2017
This article focuses on four university teacher educators across three mid-western institutions working together to collaborate and develop a shared understanding of practice in middle level teacher education while modeling a team approach to teaching and learning. Three institutions, University of Louisville (UL), University of Kentucky (UK), and…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Middle School Students, Grade 8, College School Cooperation
DeMink-Carthew, Jessica; Smith, Kristie W.; Burgess, W. Keith; Leonard, Susan Y.; Yoon, Bogum; Andrews, P. Gayle; Nagle, James; Bishop, Penny – Middle School Journal, 2023
The work of racial justice advocacy in the field of education is fraught with responsibility and challenge. The impact of historical racism on social policy within the United States has had an enduring effect in the educational realm, which is maintained in part by the prevailing white supremacy culture (WSC). Recent middle level education…
Descriptors: Racism, Social Justice, Equal Education, Middle School Teachers
Cramer, Elizabeth D.; Bennett, Kyle D. – Middle School Journal, 2015
The task of providing all students an engaging education is a particularly difficult challenge in the middle grades as young adolescents are on the cusp of intellectual thought. Because they are forming their identities as students who will or will not go on to successfully complete high school or postsecondary education, their experiences with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Collaboration, Special Education Teachers
Guffey, Sarah K.; Parrish, Christopher W.; Ferguson, Susan N.; Green, André M. – Middle School Journal, 2020
The 2018 STEM Summer Camp was held on the campuses of a middle school in the Southeast. Students from Title I schools across the district were invited to take part in the month-long STEM program, focused on advancing content competency through Mathematics, Science, Language Arts, and STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Mathematics) Inquiry.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, STEM Education, At Risk Students, Middle School Students
Salisbury, Katie E.; Rule, Audrey C.; Vander Zanden, Sarah M. – Middle School Journal, 2016
An authentic, challenging curriculum engaged middle school students from an urban district in exploratory work related to restoring a small prairie at the school. Integrated science-literacy-arts activities were coupled with a system of thinking skills that helped students view issues from different perspectives. Impassioned guest speakers and an…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Talent Identification, Middle School Students, Urban Schools
DeMink-Carthew, Jessica; Bishop, Penny A. – Middle School Journal, 2017
This article illustrates the critical need for middle level preservice teachers to be explicitly prepared to engage in reform-oriented advocacy. To illustrate this point, we present the experiences of four reform-minded student teachers who attempted to enact developmentally responsive curriculum, as defined in "This We Believe"…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Middle School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Jang, Bong Gee; Henretty, Dawnelle – Middle School Journal, 2019
In this article, the authors propose a model of four attitudinal profiles including both purpose (academic and recreational) and medium (print and digital): (1) recreational digital learning/print averse reluctant readers, (2) avid digital readers, (3) avid print readers, and (4) digital learning reluctant readers. We drew these four profiles of…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Recreational Reading, Electronic Publishing, Printed Materials
Carrejo, David J.; Reinhartz, Judy – Middle School Journal, 2014
Engaging students in both hands-on and minds-on experiences is needed for education that is relevant and complete. Many middle school students enter science classrooms with pre-conceived ideas about their world. Some of these ideas are misconceptions that hinder students from developing accepted concepts in science, such as those related to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Science Education, Middle School Teachers, Concept Teaching