Take a Classroom U-Turn
Reviewer Chelsea Leann Collins finds the turn-around strategies in U-Turn Teaching: Strategies to Accelerate Learning and Transform Middle School Achievement work in her seventh grade classroom.
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Top 12 Resource Roundups
Resource Roundups — our theme-based, resource-laden essays — are among MiddleWeb’s most popular features. Here are dozen reader favorites.
Getting Informational Text into Action
Get It Done by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, and James E. Fredricksen is “a treasure trove of helpful insights about why we need to care about the teaching of informational text,” says reviewer & flowchart maker Kevin Hodgson.
Fall Book Review Festival 2
In October 2012 we posted our Fall Book Review Festival, featuring 15 looks at professional books. Our reviewers won’t stop reading – so here are a dozen more!
Our 2012 EduBlog Nominations
Here are our nominees for the 2012 EduBlog Awards. We’re defining “best” as among the “especially interesting and attention-worthy.”
What Co-Teachers Have to Be Thankful For
Elizabeth Stein and Laurie Wasserman, who shared blogging responsibilities at MiddleWeb’s Two Teachers in the Room blog during 2012, share some of the timeless things that co-teachers are thankful for.
Learning Step by Step
Teacher Mary Tarashuk says The Walking Classroom podcasts make it easy to combine skills and goals that meet CCSS & other standards across multiple content areas.
The Why & How of Tech Tools
Kevin Hodgson says this ASCD/McREL book by Howard Pitler, Elizabeth R. Hubbell, and Matt Kuhn, Using Technology with Classroom Instruction that Works, offers abundant help for educators to integrate technology with effective & engaging instructional practices.
Becoming a Connected Educator
Reviewer Anne Jolly finds The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach & Lani Ritter Hall is “a detailed description of how to create my own learning community, expand my own connectedness, and involve others in sharing and learning as well.”
The Walking Classroom
Middle grades teacher Mary Tarashuk often yearned to spend more time outside, learning with her students. Now she’s discovered The Walking Classroom program. Problem solved!
