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Easy and Effective ELA Activities for Middle School

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Give your daily concert an ELA twist by providing lyrics to your transition song and asking students to identify figurative language. This warm-up is especially helpful during a poetry unit, but it works whenever you’re addressing literary elements, too. Extra points to the team that solves the escape room first!

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Understanding cognitive development in students via Piaget’s Theory

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Preoperational stage (2-7 years old) During the preoperational stage, children begin to use language and think symbolically, but their thinking is still intuitive and egocentric. In early childhood education, fostering language development and utilizing play-based learning are essential. Hands-on activities (i.e.,

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Using Mind Maps to Improve Assessment and Group Work

Faculty Focus

In our small language department, we each teach a different foreign language (Chinese, French, German, and Spanish), but we share the core learning goal of student understanding of culture. We gave students a similar assignment at the end of the semester, either on their own or in groups.

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Fostering Teamwork: Implementing Collaborative Assignments as High-Impact Practice

Faculty Focus

One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Collaborative Activities Collaborative learning activities are a great way to assist students to think critically, communicate effectively, consider the thoughts and perspectives of others, and work together to solve problems.

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Lessons from an online teacher: Supporting phenomena-based learning

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This program also provides the educator with the ability to assign the same science article to students to read, but at their reading level. Having students work together in partners and/or groups with the virtual labs, models, and other resources provided has helped increase engagement in my classes, as well as assist with teamwork.

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Fostering Teamwork: Implementing Collaborative Assignments as High-Impact Practice

Faculty Focus

One of the most accessible practices on this list might be collaborative assignments and projects. Collaborative Activities Collaborative learning activities are a great way to assist students to think critically, communicate effectively, consider the thoughts and perspectives of others, and work together to solve problems.