Hi Deborah,
I guess we're all really busy. I'm not sure whats going on in your end of the world but here in Melbourne we're in forst term so its 'all hand on deck' and very exciting at the moment.
I've just…
Tie all of the components of Language arts around a theme of study. Example: My 8th graders are required to read Animal Farm. A broad theme from the novel is having your voice silenced. I tie in the activities we do to the theme by reading, writing,…
Their elective classes are grouped differently. The students are grouped by Reading and Math standardized test scores. Students scoring high, medium, and low are in classes with students of the same ability. Within the groups there is still a range…
I teach MS kids...IT...once a week for 45 minutes. I have found that they love making their own websites both for fun things as well as projects for their academic subjects. With youtube being a free video storage, I encourage them to make a TV news…
Hi Marie, team teaching is very engaging for both teachers and students within the middle years. Do students stay in the same teams for specialist/elective subjects as well or do they break into different groupings? Within you 100 students do you…
I teach at a school that uses teaming. There are 5 teachers on a team: Reading (that's me!), Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Math. We share about 100 students and they travel together to their classes throughout the day. So they…