eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024. The submission period is open through January 8, 2024.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 257

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., With Morris focused on middle school and Thomasson on high school, the pair brings different attributes to the planning and flipping table. That’s not the way professionals write.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, a high school student exploring topics related to climate change could navigate to an interesting article about the pros and cons of Daylight-Saving Time that leads them to write a persuasive essay arguing for a nationwide Sunshine Protection Act.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 280

The Hungry Teacher Blog

MARCH 29, 2025

Every ELA teacher has been here : you spend weeks teaching students how to write an essay, and when you sit down to grade, youre blown away by just how bad the writing is. Additionally, the essays feel choppy and unorganized. And your students can write essays that youre both proud of. But it doesnt have to be that way.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing?

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 245

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We evaluated one writing platform that gave students immediate, AI-generated feedback, with unlimited opportunities to use the feedback to revise and resubmit their essays for better scores.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 173

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear. Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: Faye McDonough, eighth grade teacher at Headwaters Academy, Independent Middle School in Bozeman, Mont.: “The

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Zoom fatigue is real.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 200

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. Immediately, I heard some excitable boys in the class shout, “Flip flop!”

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History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 196

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

And we were watching old teaching videos from, like, 2005, and they were expecting us to write essays about what we learned, how we can integrate that with our teaching. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there. Then I started my freshman year of college in my room, with my bed right behind me.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Math 174

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Start this in 1st or 2nd grade with simple projects and gradually increase the difficulty through middle school. You rarely see a lesson that doesn’t ask for online this or digital that. Quick writes on the computer.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. Prompts, Essays and More. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 95

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa. Like most schools, we serve students with a range of abilities. But over time I’ve found many middle schoolers are not equipped to critique an essay that meets the expectations of the assignment.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Rather than being stuck at a desk, forced to sit still for long hours, shuffling boring papers, at culinary school he’s physically active. I can’t love an essay, but I can love my food,” he says. When the regular public school he attended several years ago closed during the pandemic, Bradley switched to remote learning.

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Schools Students Counselling Special Education 195

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. These explorations go much deeper than writing an essay or performing a play. This summit was also designed to give current local clubs a bigger platform.

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Students Participation Essay Culture 166

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc. Ramaz is a modern Orthodox day school that has recently implemented an AI LAB by RobotLAB in their middle school.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 327

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

As a middle school humanities teacher, I saw myself in my students and they saw themselves in me, and we talked about it openly. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older. Moreover, as a K-12 student, I rarely had teachers who seemed to be the kind of adult I wanted to become.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I had high hopes for my students, but the average lexile score at my school was 800, which is equivalent to a late elementary or middle school level. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. I had to face some hard facts.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 133

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 133

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Tasking students with submitting a video essay, for example, provides teachers with the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of a topic. An authentic assessment in middle school might involve a cross curricular project, such as designing a community garden.

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Authentic Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning Evaluation 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Goal : To write a recommendation letter for a student Prompt: Write a recommendation letter for a teacher who graduated with a middle school teaching certification who engages students, demonstrates effective classroom management, and possesses strong professionalism.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2019

As a result, usually I settle for less-impassioned but easier-accomplished pieces like short stories or essays. A vignette is a verbal sketch, a brief essay, or a carefully crafted short work of fiction or nonfiction based around a setting, an atmosphere, or the same characters. Middle School lesson plan for writing an ebook.

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Essay Writing Achievement Middle School 89

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me. Being able to type a lecture, or being able to type my essays has made all the difference. Excruciating.

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

Give them a minute to think through the prompt organizing ideas based on your school’s version of the five-paragraph essay—1) introduction, 2-4) one paragraph per point, 5) conclusion. Middle School. Here’s how that would work: Give students a writing prompt. Type response for three-five minutes. Student workbooks.

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Beliefs Writing Essay Testing 102

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Goal : To write a recommendation letter for a student Prompt: Write a recommendation letter for a teacher who graduated with a middle school teaching certification who engages students, demonstrates effective classroom management, and possesses strong professionalism.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When they apply the knowledge to authentic situations (like typing a book report or an essay), students return to hunt-and-peck, watching their hands, and hating what they’re doing. The feedback I often get on these sorts of sites is that students do improve speed and accuracy but only on the site.

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Quizzes Essay Grades Knowledge 90

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

By providing increasingly complex narrative prompts throughout elementary school, you can help prepare them for writing prompts for middle school , high school, and real-world writing situations theyll come across. Try these narrative writing prompts to help your students sharpen their storytelling skills!

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Writing Grades Elementary School Elementary School 86

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Academic competitions can be exciting and rewarding additions to your school club options. For upper elementary and middle school students, these challenges not only promote academic growth and productive struggle but also social connections. The program emphasizes teamwork, spelling skills, and academic excellence.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing? Yeah, if it can help us, alleviate some of those mundane tasks that are like, okay, I don’t need to spend reading 170 essays like, you know.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Virtual Hall of Fame: Create an online space where great work is displayed for the entire school community to see. The result?

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

The Hungry Teacher Blog

APRIL 28, 2025

From solving math problems to writing essays, students are becoming dependent on ChatGPT for all their information, and that includes research. And eventually, when Google summaries started, even clicking links stopped – theyd simply copy and paste the summary information ( whichwasnt always accurate ). The big problem?

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Teaching Writing Testing Essay 52