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Christine L. Craddock; Brittany Pinkerton – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2024
In an afterschool program at a university literacy center, we piloted the integration of physical activity with multimodal mathematics and literacy exercises. We aimed to incorporate the three tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) including academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness with middle grades participants by…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Mathematics, Literacy, Culturally Relevant Education
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Karen Weller Swanson; Micki M. Caskey – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to describe and explain a mentoring initiative for supporting and retaining middle school teachers. First, we examine the persistent problem of teacher retention in U.S. schools, particularly in middle schools. Then, we describe a mentoring initiative--a community practice mentoring model that is well-suited for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Mentors, Teacher Persistence, Middle School Teachers
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Kristie W. Smith; Kristina N. Falbe – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2024
The work of teacher education in a 2020's context is challenging and filled with opportunity. With a diversifying P-12 student body (Love, 2020; Pitts, 2019) and the confluence of social, political, and educational factors (Nieto & Bode, 2018), the complexities of teacher education are vast and fluid. In a historical moment that has included…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Social Bias, Racism, Social Justice
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Hilary Dack – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2024
Promoting pre-service teachers' development of professional dispositions through purposefully designed learning experiences may be middle level teacher education's most important contribution to a novice's development from student to teacher. The 2022 Revised Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards explicitly address this expectation in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Professionalism, Teacher Behavior
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Michael DiCicco; Ryan Alverson – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2023
This study seeks to share teachers' and principals' voices from middle schools in the Southeastern United States who are attempting to help their students achieve academic success. Obtaining a snapshot of middle schools in the Southeastern United States provides opportunities to recognize trends and identify challenges about the current…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Principals, Barriers, Teacher Attitudes
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Chandra Diaz; Rebecca M. Nelson; Laurie A. Ramirez; Nancy B. Ruppert – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2023
The social unrest during the summer of 2020 in the United States has produced a renewed sense of urgency and agency for the interrogation of curriculum in K-12 education and the development of culturally sustaining practices. This urgency has encouraged more teacher preparation programs to be intentional in developing culturally sustaining…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Middle School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Christine L. Craddock; Stacie K. Pettit – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2023
Middle Grades teacher candidates participated in a "field trip" in an Integrated Reading course to model best practices in culturally responsive teaching. The college students visited their downtown city including a regional art museum and memorial sculpture garden commemorating local Black history to experience and contemplate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Reading Instruction, Literacy Education
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DiCicco, Michael; Alverson, Ryan – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
In 2017, the state of Kentucky distributed the Teaching, Empowerment, Leading, and Learning (TELL) survey to gain an understating of the learning environments in Kentucky schools. Many of the items on the TELL survey addressed key components of the School to Watch criteria and rubric. Researchers were interested in the teaching and learning…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Middle Schools, School Effectiveness, Accountability
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VanValkenburgh, Jessica; Gierhart, Aaron R. – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
This article expounds how our pedagogical practices have changed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these effects others have contended with in the education community. The authors share pedagogical strategies they have found to be effective in terms of building and supporting relationships with teacher candidates. They suggest using…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Interpersonal Relationship
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Stewart, Elizabeth S.; Cho, Jeasik; Lesley, Mellinee; Smit, Julie – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
The coronavirus pandemic changed everything almost overnight for students and their families. The purpose of this qualitative case study, thus, was to investigate the views of families about the student change in education for their middle school children, particularly literacy practices, during the pandemic. Drawing on Bourdieu's (1984)…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Middle School Students, Parent Participation, Parent Role
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Elbih, Randa; Miller, Elyssa; Sheldon, Grace; Wilson, Mackenzie – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
Pre-service teachers (PSTs) often struggle to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) content effectively due to lack of training on how to plan a STEM lesson in meaningful ways as well as which subjects to integrate. This dilemma often results in an avoidance of STEM methodology altogether. This paper describes a productive…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, STEM Education, Preservice Teachers
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Pinter, Holly H.; Virtue, David C. – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2022
Teacher candidates in North Carolina must earn a passing score on the edTPA assessment to get certified. The middle grades education program at Western Carolina University integrates aspects of the edTPA assessment throughout pre-student teaching coursework and field experiences to prepare candidates for this high-stakes assessment. Some of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Performance Based Assessment
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Perry, Bettie; Beck, Jori S.; Hinton, KaaVonia – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
We set out to create a middle grades program and to inform the field about the perceptions of our teacher candidates on teaching middle school. To accomplish these twin goals, we sought to better understand our teacher candidates' perceptions of teaching middle school and how these perceptions might be changed if necessary. Our review of research…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students
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Casler-Failing, Shelli L.; Stevenson, Alma D.; King Miller, Beverly A. – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
This manuscript shares the implementation of an after-school literacy in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) program designed for middle grades students to increase their interest in science and mathematics learning. This program was conducted at our local Boys and Girls Club facilities where students learned about four…
Descriptors: STEM Education, After School Programs, Culturally Relevant Education, Literacy Education
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Howell, Penny B.; Gnau, Alice; Peavley, Laura; Workman, Caitlyn – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2021
In the United States during March and April of 2020, more than 50 million K-12 students were impacted by school closures with many forced to engage in online teaching for continuity in their 2019-2020 school year. This disruption to K-12 public and private schools reverberated in programs of teacher education around the country. As…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Middle Schools, Electronic Learning
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