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Jodie Doble replied to Deborah Hansen's discussion 'Engaging middle school students' in the group A Crazy Place Called Middle School
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…
Mar 3, 2010
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Marie G. replied to Jodie Doble's discussion 'Middle school - what is the most effective curriculum model and how do we measure value adding?'
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,…
Aug 8, 2009
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Marie G. replied to Jodie Doble's discussion 'Middle school - what is the most effective curriculum model and how do we measure value adding?'
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…
Aug 7, 2009
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Jack Hutchinson replied to Jodie Doble's discussion 'Middle school - what is the most effective curriculum model and how do we measure value adding?'
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…
Aug 5, 2009
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Jodie Doble replied to Jodie Doble's discussion 'Middle school - what is the most effective curriculum model and how do we measure value adding?'
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…
Aug 5, 2009
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Marie G. replied to Jodie Doble's discussion 'Middle school - what is the most effective curriculum model and how do we measure value adding?'
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…
Aug 4, 2009

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