Hampton University - Department Of University Relations the importance of academics and success in a HU students have been working with Enterprise Academy have left a major impression on the middle school students. http://www.hamptonu.edu/News_Publications/2000_01_Youth_Decision_Making_Skills.h
Extractions: November 7, 2000 - #27 HU BUSINESS STUDENTS TEACH YOUTH DECISION-MAKING SKILLS Hampton, VA - Hampton University students in the School of Business are teaching the value of making smart decisions to middle school students at Enterprise Academy, an alternative school in Newport News, Va. The HU volunteers, who are also members of the "Students in Free Enterprise," organization, are hoping to make a difference in the lives of the middle school students at Enterprise Academy. The school offers an alternative system for middle school and high school students who have had disciplinary problems, are returning to the community from the State Department of Corrections and/or are on a long-term suspension from regular school. The program, which lasts anywhere from nine weeks to a year, stresses the importance of academics and success in a business setting. The academy also encourages students to make wise decisions in order to become responsible citizens in society. Jackie Lewis, an "Education for Employment" teacher at Enterprise Academy requested help from Hampton University business professor Dr. Lewis Bellinger, who advises the SIFE organization, to encourage HU business students to volunteer with the youth and to teach them decision-making skills.
Making Middle Grades Work teach young adolescents to prepare for success in further Too many students leave the middle grades unprepared to advantage of all that high school can offer http://www.sreb.org/programs/MiddleGrades/MiddleGradesindex.asp
Extractions: Making Middle Grades Work The Southern Regional Education Board's middle grades initiative is designed to help states, districts and schools look at what they expect, what they teach and how they teach young adolescents to prepare for success in further education. Too many students leave the middle grades unprepared to take advantage of all that high school can offer and unable to be successful in career opportunities after high school. Making Middle Grades Work is a network of schools, districts and states committed to implementing 10 essential elements in a comprehensive improvement framework. The MMGW brochure details the essential elements and other components of the framework. The elements focus on a rigorous and challenging academic core curriculum for all students and on the teaching and learning conditions that support continuous improvement in student achievement. With the support of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, SREB provides member states and schools with technical assistance, publications, assessments and networking services. As school sites identify the help they need to implement the framework, SREB links them to specific professional-development resources. A summer conference enables sites to learn what works with other middle grades and high schools and to plan further actions to improve student achievement. Please join our listserv to receive periodic email messages about MMGW activities.
Extractions: So says Julius Jackson, 17, a poet, performer and De Anza High School student who thinks his talents for self-expression are too often overlooked by a society that can't get past the fact that he's a young black man in a community where many who fit that description are caught in a web of poverty and violence.
Breakthrough Collaborative both older and younger, as dynamic, successful learners, leaders and and collegeage students work with underserved middle school students to teach them the http://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/program.html
ASM | MaterialsTalk We would teach a science topic the students were Future work Building on the success of this program camp and 79 percent of the middle school students want to http://www.asminternational.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Membership/A_Members_Voic
Extractions: Materials Science and Engineering, although a key to almost every emerging technology, is often one of the least known engineering disciplines. The Lehigh University Institute for Metal Forming (IMF) has developed a K-12 outreach program that disseminates materials engineering into local schools through demonstrations, web sites, lesson plans and sending engineering students to teach in local schools. Contacting local schools: We contacted local schools about opportunities to visit and teach at a local middle and high schools. We would teach a science topic the students were working on such as electricity and magnetism, or the rock cycle, and then tie it into material concepts such as piezoelectric materials, atomic structure, bonding and corrosion.
RSD | Middle School school students become responsible for their own success. and instruct deaf and hard of hearing students. In the middle school, students continue to meet with http://www.rsdeaf.org/departments/middle.ssi
Extractions: The Middle School is focused on providing students with the foundation for a lifetime of educational success and expanding their knowledge on a variety of topics. There is so much more that students learn. Older now than Elementary Schools students but still not as developed as High School Students, the Middle School students become responsible for their own success. While parents are still very much involved and made aware of their child's performance through reports home, students learn that they themselves have the power to create their future through the choices they make. Each student receives instruction in English, math, science and social studies by teachers who are dually certified to teach these subjects and instruct deaf and hard of hearing students. In the Middle School, students continue to meet with Subject Area Specialists in each of the content areas to promote their development and identify individualized needs. Return to Top of Page Site Map
Extractions: HOME ABOUT THIS REPORT BILL OF RIGHTS PRINTER FRIENDLY ... NYSUT.org NYSUT Bill of Rights: For Students in the Middle Grades Students in the middle grades, in order to succeed on eighth-grade tests; achieve higher academic standards; make a smooth transition to high school and develop to their fullest potential as adults; must be provided certain educational rights. New York State United Teachers believes students in the middle grades have the right to: Know what they must learn and what will be tested. Teachers who are certified, who know their subject area, and how to teach it. Teachers whose skills and knowledge are continually updated through ongoing, meaningful professional development. A balanced and academically rigorous education that prepares them to succeed in high school. ... Schools equipped for the 21st Century. See also: Conclusion Sources Footnotes 1. Know what they must learn and what will be tested. All students should first have the opportunity to learn a subject before they are tested on it. While that statement is both logical and obvious, today's middle-level students can be - and sometimes are - tested by the state on academic material they have not covered in class. In fact, what middle-level students are taught in school varies widely from school district to school district and, in many cases, from school to school within the same district.
Project TEACH The middle school Program focuses on parents of promising that will enhance the students chances for success. held in each participating school system and http://www.ncpublicschools.org/teacher_education/projteach.htm
Extractions: Curriculum Publication Sales Education Initiatives Agency Web Sites ... NC Schools Listing Project TEACH HISTORY Project TEACH began in 1985 when the General Assembly approved funding to help with the recruitment of minorities into the education profession. With only five school districts involved at the beginning, the program has grown in participation to ten. The program has two major components designed to allow for expansion and replication by any school system. The community and, most importantly, parents are an integral part of Project TEACH. The program first targeted students in grades 9-12. Upon expansion, districts began efforts to recruit minorities in the middle schools. Read further and discover how local and statewide activities are planned to increase the number of minority students entering the teaching profession. LOCAL ACTIVITIES Middle School Program (grades 6-8): The Middle School Program focuses on parents of promising minority students. Emphasis is directed toward helping parents develop skills necessary to support, encourage and guide their children towards pursuing a college education. The parents work closely with a school-based team (sbt) trained to assist them in becoming active partners in the school. The students and parents enjoy a variety of activities planned jointly by the school and parents to encourage networking and a high level of interest in education.
The Savannah Country Day Middle School Academic Support Page rules and consequences to generate success for the Our middle school SLD specialist has knowledge in the field of philosophy for working with students, and a http://199.250.191.10/middle/middle_academic_support.html
Extractions: Questions or problems? webmaster@savcds.org Every day Middle School students have the opportunity to receive extra help from teachers during scheduled times. The Middle School SLD program provides structure through clear communication, expectations, rules and consequences to generate success for the ADD/ADHD and LD student. The purpose of the program is not only to enhance the child's strengths
Intel Innovation In Education would be able to expose my students to how empowering for me, too. Jeanne Butcher, middle school teacher, Oregon Related Link Intel teach to the Future Program. http://www.intel.com/education/news&success/trains.htm
Birdscope - Using Birds To Teach Science Using Birds to teach Science by Rick Bonney. Elementary and middle school students learn scientific methods gathering of the new curriculum was a great success. http://birds.cornell.edu/Publications/birdscope/Summer1997/CFW97113.htm
Extractions: for Classroom FeederWatch Last year, we sent our new Classroom FeederWatch (CFW) curriculum to 60 schoolteachers across the United States to field test in their classrooms. Judging from the responses of participating classrooms, the field test of the new curriculum was a great success. This comment from teacher Susan Botts of the Southwest Middle School in Orlando, Florida, was typical: "I am totally fascinated by the expertise and confidence the children in my class have at bird identification. Classroom FeederWatch has provided them with an interest and enthusiasm in their environment and the local birds and their habitat." Based on Project FeederWatch, CFW is a bird education and research project aimed at elementary and middle school students that was developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and TERC, an educational research and development organization, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Each of the participating classrooms received a curriculum package last fall, and the students have been testing the materials all year. The curriculum, which is keyed to the recently published National Science Standards, includes
GOVERNOR BUSH UNVEILS MIDDLE SCHOOL REFORM PROPOSAL for teachers and help them teach reading effectively success for lowperforming students, attendance policies 05, a Personalized middle school success Plan will http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/library/releases/2004/January/proposal-1
Extractions: Governor's Office Admin. Hearings Agriculture Agri. Forestry Agri. Marketing Attorney General Auditor General Board of Admin. Citrus Citrus-Econ. Res. Community Affairs Comptroller Corrections Education Elder Affairs Emergency Mgmt. Enterprise Florida Environmental Prot. Florida Cabinet Health Health Care Highway Patrol Insurance Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Legislature Lottery Management Serv. Military Affairs Parole Commission Pub. Serv. Comm. Retirement Revenue Spaceport FL Auth. State State Group Ins. State Courts State Technology Off. Transportation Veterans' Affairs FLAUSA Workforce Innov. Find a State Employee ORLANDO Governor Jeb Bush today announced new legislation and increased Just Read, Florida! funding geared toward adding focus and rigor to middle school academics. The Middle Grades Reform Act, sponsored by Senator Lee Constantine and Representative Dennis K. Baxley, uses reading as the foundation to increase student achievement in all subject areas. The Governor made the announcement at Carver Middle School, where he was joined by the bill's sponsors, Chairman of the State Board of Education Phil Handy and Orange County Public Schools Superintendent Ron Blocker.
Extractions: Photo by Steve Keating, courtesy of Northwest Architectural Co. Designers worked closely with teachers and administrators on a remodeling and addition project at Stanwood Middle School. The foyer they developed connects the old building to the new addition, and gives students a place they can call their own. The theory of multiple intelligences, brain-based learning, constructivist learning environments, integrated curriculums, team teaching, academies these and many other learning and curriculum theories are currently being considered by educational administrators, educational planners and architects as they plan and design schools. Much research has been conducted on how students learn and the best way to convey information to them. In response to this research, educational leaders are rethinking how they present information to students. What is common in most approaches is that the teacher no longer imparts information to students in the form of lectures and rote exercises, but acts as more of a coach for students, facilitating their learning in a variety of ways. This includes group and individual projects, computer-based projects, real-life simulations and many more. These activities occur both inside the classroom and in shared spaces observed from classrooms.
Africa Society Teach Africa Program Arts and Social Studies Teacher, Sinaloa middle school, San Francisco. that aims to educate high school students about a The success of phase one last October http://www.africasummit.org/events/teachafrica.html
Extractions: What educators are saying about the Africa Society's Teach Africa program "I'm appalled at how little our children know about Africa and at how disinterested many are in learning. What we saw today and learned today gave me ideas on how we might change this a little bit at a time"Jeanne Fraser, high school teacher, Fairfax County Public Schools. "The Teach Africa program has affected the way I will write curriculum for teachers on Africa in the future and the method I will use in presenting Africa during school in-services."Rosie Kelley Instructional Specialist, Charles County, Maryland. Since the conference, I have had this feeling that a new seed in African perspective has been sown in the minds of many Bay Area educators. Hopefully, soon we will see it grow into this healthy and strong view about Africa which will be shared with many more students. Myra Graulich, Lincoln Middle School, Alameda, CA. "I have already utilized the Africa video and my students were absolutely riveted to the contents of the film. Also, all of the rich facts that I gleaned throughout the conference I have utilized in my lectures to students, Thank you!" Lori Utley, 7th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies Teacher, Sinaloa Middle School, San Francisco.
Middle School Students And School Life Successful Health Program for middle schoolers This story Management Outside the Box middle school teacher Brenda and teach her students effective problem http://www.middleweb.com/ContntsStudn.html
Extractions: At the "Beat the Clock" website, students can learn to manage school time better. The site, sponsored by the Day Runner pocket calendar folks, includes background info for teachers and parents. As a MiddleWeb listserv member wrote recently: "Wow! What an incredible site. I am using it immediately in Advisory and sending it out to the whole school." The advisory period ideally, a time when teachers and students examine "real-life" issues is the linchpin in the middle-school movement, some experts say. but many middle-school programs suffer from poorly implemented advisories that have little impact on academic or personal growth. These articles can help schools examine the advisory concept and the quality of their own programs. The rise of the instant-message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships are examined in this report from the Pew Internet Project, which zeroes in on teens aged 12-17. "Of particular interest to the authors," says a review in The Scout Report, "is how teens have embraced instant messaging technologies to a much larger degree than adults, thoroughly integrating it into their daily lives." Full text available in HTML and PDF formats at this page. States that hope to eliminate social promotion by retaining students based solely on test scores are replacing one failed strategy with another, says a study by the Southern Regional Education Board. "After decades of research, we know beyond any serious doubt that simply repeating a grade does not help struggling students overcome their problems.
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education Champaign IL. Motivation and Middle School Students. ERIC Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC ATTRIBUTION THEORY GOAL THEORY 1. grouping by ability and over-use of standardized tests to grouping by topic, interest, and student choice and to frequent reformation of groups; 2. competition between students, and contests with limited winners, to cooperative learning; 3. using test data as a basis for comparison to using test data for diagnosis and to alternatives to tests such as portfolios; 4. normative grading and public display of grades to grading for progress or improvement and involving students in determining their grades; 5. recognition for relative performance, honor rolls for high grades, and over-use of praise (especially for easy tasks) to recognition of progress improvement and an emphasis on learning for its own sake;
The Middle School Program students describe their heritage, their government, their world and economic Because of the rapid growth and success of our middle school component, PLTW http://www.pltw.org/msprogram.shtml
Extractions: Gateway To Technologys cutting-edge program addresses the interest and energy of middle school students, while incorporating national standards in math, science and technology. GTT is activity oriented to show students how technology is used in engineering to solve everyday problems. The four instructional units excite and motivate students to use their imaginations and teach them to be creative and innovative, while gaining the skills they need to develop, produce and use products and services. The Gateway To Technology curriculum provides project-based learninga hands-on approachthat is exciting and fun for the full-range of students in todays grade 6 8 classrooms and that relates technology to students daily lives. It also promotes communication and collaboration by emphasizing a teaming approach in the instructional units. This approach utilizes the strengths of each team member to accomplish the goals of the project, while offering students learning challenges at all ability levels. The math, science, and technology integrated GTT program helps students develop and hone skills in middle school that enable them to enter the high school program with foundation knowledge and skills for success in pre-engineering. Although not intended as an introduction to the PLTW pre-engineering high school program, many schools report improved interest in the high school program because of Gateway to Technology.
NMSA Executive Director Statement: NOW MORE THAN EVER big elementary kids, nor little high school students. Level Teachers, NMSA states, middle school teachers must be adolescent development, the success of the http://www.nmsa.org/news/trusteestatement_qualityteachers.htm
Extractions: A Statement by National Middle School Association Board of Trustees Click to see the Press Release Quality Teachers Must Have Content Knowledge and Know How to Teach That Knowledge to Young Adolescents Students in America's middle level schools deserve and require teachers that know the content of the subjects they teach and have the knowledge and skills to teach those subjects successfully. Without both, students will not learn to their full capacities and middle level schools will fail to meet the expectations of parents and community members. The U.S. Department of Education has issued a report on teacher quality, Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge , in which it contends that teacher education programs are not producing the quality of teachers needed in our nation. Among other recommendations, the report asserts that states should lower the number of "methods" courses prospective teachers are required to complete and reduce the number of teacher preparation requirements. National Middle School Association believes that there must be a balance in teacher preparation programs. Prospective teachers must learn the content of subjects they teach, but they also must be knowledgeable about the development of their students and have the specialized instructional skills to capitalize on that knowledge. Focusing exclusively or predominantly on content knowledge, at the expense of professional preparation "methods" training, will be less effective in the overall learning of middle level students.
Bak Middle School Of The Arts The Gallery. at City Place. Communications. The Communications Department is one of the premier departments at the middle school of the Arts. That will teach you " said an old man who achieving high levels of success in their postBak http://www.msoa.com/
Extractions: at City Place Communications The Communications Department is one of the premier departments at the Middle School of the Arts. From producing the MSOA Today television program to putting out the award winning MSOA Yearbook, the Communications Department rides on the cutting edge of the technology and the arts. Led by former professional television producers Susan Tieche and Alyssa Cartegena, the students at MSOA are learning from a couple of experienced pros. Video/Television production is one of the high profile art areas at the Middle School of the Arts. Students can be seen combing our campus with digital video cameras in hand, capturing all the special events that make MSOA the special school it is. Once the video is recorded there is the entire production process to work through. Our program is as much an apprenticeship as a class! There's more to the Communications Department than video! The written word is exulted in the Yearbook and Creative Writing classes. These programs have won numerous awards on the local and state levels! The Portfolio newspaper exceeds most Middle Schools when it comes to awards they capture over local high schools. Advisor, Ms. Massimo and Masterpiece yearbook advisor, Mr. Roberts are the leaders of the fifth estate at MSOA.
