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There is a dearth on the focus of preparing teachers for Middle School education. A difficult and challenging age, but one where a good teacher and caring adult can make all the difference.
The challenges of teaching Middle School - so much of the "teaching" falls outside of classroom bounds.
Brooklyn: How to snuff out brewing fistfights before the first punch is thrown, how to coax adolescents crippled by low self-esteem into raising their hands, how to turn every curveball, even the biting insult, into a teachable moment.
“We’re really in a malpractice kind of environment, where we’re preparing teachers for elementary classrooms and high school classrooms but not middle-grades classrooms,” said Peggy Gaskill, research chairwoman of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-grades Reform, an alliance of educators, researchers and others seeking to improve middle school education.
When students are aware of their shortcoming, they tend to become self-conscious and put on a defense mechanism to avoid further embarrassment, by not seeking for help. Such actions prevent them from moving up to grade level. This articles suggests ways to avoid and help students who are in such situations.
Zinch, which is free for students, is designed like a social networking tool.
lines are blurring between social networking tools and digital portfolios.
Digital portfolios provide students a way to track what they’ve learned over time, compile their grades and scores and publish their completed projects. And they provide a sense of a student’s identity, one behind the transcript, when submitting their applications.
Parents can involve their kids, even at a very young age, to help them not only pick their favorite works but also to assess and reflect on their learning. The reflection component, much more than the presentation element of digital portfolios, is where Barrett believes they reach their full power.
An interesting discussion of early childhood development and digital learning.
The new project raises questions about childhood development and digital learning
Lifelong Kindergarten is collaborating with Tufts University’s DevTech Research Group to make Scratch Jr, a new version aimed at kids in preschool to second grade. The expected launch date is summer 2012.
We want them to see digital technologies as something they can use to express themselves.”
There’s been a lot of buzz in the last few years about what it means to be literate in the 21st century. To Resnick, teaching kids to program was like teaching children of another generation how to write.
That's because Evan and others in first-grade teacher Jodi Conrad's class use Twitter to send out a weekly newsletters, update the days' activities and give parents reminders about upcoming programs.
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"These are tools that come standard in life right now,"