6-8 Middle School

Strategies for facilitating small group and whole class conversations with students in grades 3 to 12.

Despite the challenges, there are some upsides for middle and high school teachers in changing rooms throughout the day.

Writing dialogues between themselves and literary characters can enhance students’ empathy and ability to deal with hardships.

Book clubs bring challenges in class management and assessment, but they can lead to improvements in students’ reading ability.

Inspired by John Hattie, a middle school math teacher encourages students to articulate and measure their own learning.

Partnering on note taking, a strategy developed for struggling readers, helps middle and high school students process what they read.

Using inexpensive supplies and six engineering practices, students design a paper Mars lander in this simple lesson.

Guiding student writers to think about a likely audience for their work helps them strengthen a variety of skills.

A book club can help students who mainly use English but speak another language at home gain valuable literacy skills in the home language.

A monthly after-school activity guides students to have fun exploring science, technology, engineering, and math.