Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Centered Learning Since starting college, I’ve wanted to develop a classroom that ran entirely by learning centers. I spent the first four years of my career building the activities and classroom management skills I would need to pull it off. Amanda Lotz is a life sciences teacher at at Southside Middle School in New Hampshire.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When I first started working with middle school and high school students on organization and time-management nearly two decades ago, most students would tell me their biggest distractions were food, pets, siblings and sleep. Last year I visited a middle school twice in the span of six months.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. The more I learned about flipping my classroom, the more fears that developed. How would classroom management change if I relinquished control over to my students? The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

[Our students] have radically different experiences and levels of trust with educators. Courtney Egelston “About a third of our students came from a school with a ton of trauma. Students being pepper sprayed at a middle school,” says Egelston. Wilkerson, says with time and practice the model has become easier for her.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

On December 9th, 2017, 300 students and educators came to Grover Middle School in West Windsor to learn more about TED-Ed Clubs. The TED-Ed Clubs program challenges these ideas, instead supporting the notion that the role of an educator is to facilitate student inquiry, interest and passion to guide the learning process.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

The times they are a'changing—and the folks at Alpha Public Schools refuse to be left behind. That's why last year, in an attempt to accelerate personalized learning, we mandated every middle school teacher implement a station rotation model for the first time. 1 Teacher ensures classroom is stable and students are working.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The new PRIDE traits are tightly intertwined with classroom management, and are integrated and celebrated in numerous ways throughout the school. The school uses a ticket-based positive behavior system that lets students earn prizes for demonstrating PRIDE habits. “But

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

How-To’s from Inside the Classroom : Step-by-step guides on everything from social-emotional learning to classroom management strategies in a tech-rich environment. Cheers to the new school year. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

For novice programming students, having access to a widely-used, industry-standard tool can give them a sense of how coding projects are done professional settings, says Sheena Vaidyanathan, a middle-school computer science educator in Los Altos School District in California.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

When you have 45 minutes once a week with students that have so many different levels of learning, so many different accommodations and modifications, and you still have to stay with it and plan and be able to change or modify in a moment, classroom management is key. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

But with new digital tools comes new forms of learning experiences, and new learning experiences require addressing class management head-on. The iPad does not direct the education—the teacher does.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

She is integral to Cult of Pedagogy’s commitment to making teachers awesome in the classroom. The website offers videos (on instruction, classroom management, edtech, advice, and more), podcasts, free materials, and lots more through their Teachers Pay Teachers store. Blog: Control Alt Achieve. Social Media: @kathyschrock.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

That’s what Jenna Kleine, now the Community Growth Lead at ClassDojo , did as she explored options outside the classroom in early 2014. As a middle-school science teacher in San Francisco, Kleine had been using ClassDojo, a classroom management and communication tool.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

NetSupport – a classroom management solution used throughout the globe – has published the results of a survey asking educators who either manage or use technology about the use and benefits of education technology in their schools. Virgin Islands.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

If you've ever taught middle school writing, which I have, or if you taught early high school writing, their writing does not change that much in eight months. Classroom management is a delicate balance. You're always managing kids' emotions, and where they're at that day, and your own emotions, too.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

The LaGrange College Department of Education plans to continue to use ADVANCEfeedback® to support our teacher candidates on their journey to becoming teachers with exemplary knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Rebekah Ralph is the instructor of educational technology and edTPA coordinator at LaGrange College Department of Education (GA).

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