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Wise, Mark; McTighe, Jay – Educational Leadership, 2017
From global hunger to the world's water crisis, middle school students at New Jersey's West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District spend the last few days of the school year problem solving about the planet's most dire issues. With the Global Challenge, the school district's administrators not only want to implement an interesting and dynamic…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Global Education, Global Approach, Problem Solving
Saunders, Jane M.; Ash, Gwynne Ellen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2013
The article describes a semester-long project that draws on Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games" as a resource and over-arching theme for preservice teachers taking a content area literacy course. We examine how preservice teachers learn to connect written texts to content area (disciplinary) literacy and consider ways to prepare them for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Student Projects, Adolescent Literature
Murray, Beth; Salas, Spencer; Thoghdha, Michele Ni – English Teaching Forum, 2015
Youth in middle and secondary grades, between childhood and the adult world, sometimes struggle with their identities as readers and learners. Too many describe themselves or are described by their teachers and parents as "reluctant, disengaged, and/or unmotivated" by classroom texts or by the rows of books in school libraries. Even…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Adolescents, English (Second Language)
Hynds, Susan – Voices from the Middle, 2008
Declaring that "public education is at a crossroads where the future of our world could not be more precariously poised," the author addresses the challenges facing middle school teachers, such as the narrowing of curriculum due to high-stakes assessments. She argues that students should not leave middle school without the "interpretive skills"…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Middle School Teachers, Interpretive Skills, Public Education