MIDDLEWEB’S
75 MOST-READ ARTICLES
• Winter 2023-24 •
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6 Places to Find True Rigor in Your Classroom
Stop Using These Four Words in Math Class
Using Ambient Sound to Reduce Student Stress
Teaching Students How to Assess Themselves
Build Your Own Utopia: ‘The Giver’ PBL Unit
8 Strategies to Quickly Assess Prior Knowledge
Seven Ways to Help Students Become Active Listeners
Interactive Word Walls Enliven Vocabulary Learning
Six Ways to Help Students Soak Up Difficult Texts
Low-Prep and No-Prep Vocabulary Activities
Translanguaging Can Be Part of Any Lesson
2023 Summer Book Review Festival
Lessons Learned from Gifted, Neurodiverse Kids
5 Reader Activities That Invite Higher Thinking
UDL Tools Help Kids Avoid Overloading Their Working Memory
Helping Student Writers Find the Best Evidence
Can Teachers Measure Student Engagement?
Teacher ‘Stunts’ Offer Students Choice, Challenge and Play
Power Up Learning in the Last Minutes of Class
Rewiring Student Brains for Class Discussions
Offering Constructive Feedback to Teachers
10 Ways to Sabotage Your Classroom Management
Keys to Fostering Joy in Your Classroom
Using One Open Math Task to Meet All Student Needs
How to Stage Socratic Seminars
A Brain-Based Solution to Student Notetaking
3 Fun Activities for Teaching Statistics
STEM Skills Kids Will Need for Our Volatile Future
Feeling Overwhelmed? Try These 7 Strategies
How I Use Google Sheets to Track Student Data
Teaching Middle Grades Students to Self-Regulate
10 Techniques to Teach Whole Class Novels
Effective 5 to 7 Minute Reading Conferences
10 Surefire Ideas to Remove Writing Roadblocks
Using Podcasting to Teach Fluency and Explore Genre
6 Ways to Add Rigor by Deepening Thinking
How We Can Design Our Lessons to Be Feedback-Driven
Help Long-Term ELs Master Academic Texts
Media Literacy: Teach Students to Close-Read Infographics
Spelling Matters in Middle School, Too
SEL Picture Books for Middle School Advisory
What Kind of Feedback Works Best to Motivate Students
Teaching Students to Interrogate Photographs
8 Ways to Help Tweens & Teens Take Academic Risks
A Plan for All Kids to Reach Math Proficiency
How to Be Strategic with Scaffolding Strategies
10 Snapshots of Effective Middle School Teams
4 Ways to Reclaim Our Optimism for Our Schools
Always Start Class with a Power Move
The Six Characteristics of Effective Praise
Teacher Think-Alouds Work in EVERY Subject
12 Ways to Get Students Speaking & Listening
What Kind of Feedback Motivates Students?
5 Metacognitive Tools Help Reveal Hidden Student Learning
How We Learned to Cite Our Sources
How to Teach Students to Grapple with the Math
How to Get Your Students to Ask More Questions
How We Can Fairly Assess Our English Learners
Single Point Rubrics: They’re Efficient and Impactful
Avoid These 3 Mistakes During Debriefs in Math Class
Explore Non-Traditional Fantasy Novels with Middle Schoolers
Vocabulary: 25 Words That Trigger Student Understanding
Real World STEM Problems: Go Deep into Plastics Pollution
All the Vocabulary Help You’re Likely to Need
Why History Classes Need Vocabulary Lessons
Use Taylor Swift Lyrics to Engage Kids with Text
17 Ideas to Combat Learned Helplessness
Using Poetry Pauses to Elevate Student Writing
Five Ideas to Add Comfort and Joy to Math Class
Fun Literacy Activities That Boost Content Learning
Independent Reading Builds Stamina & Endurance
School Leadership: Listening to Others in Volatile Times
Five Principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching
Helping New Teachers Manage Their Students
5 Adaptable Activities That Really Engage Readers
Help Kids Build Skills with Google-Made Tutorials
5 Strategies to Support Math Thinking for All
4 Fun Ways to Practice Short Oral Presentations
A Teacher’s Love Letter to Notice and Note
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