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Unlocking middle school potential: Exploring career education and soft skillsĀ 

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The conversation also highlights the evolving nature of CTE in middle schools and its potential to provide students with a more comprehensive and purposeful educational experience. Patrick emphasizes the value of helping students explore different career paths and develop essential skills early in their education.

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Mass. teacher finds success with flipped model

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At Memorial Middle School in Fitchburg, Mass., Next page: How technology is a big part of Landry’s teaching method. The flipped instructional model, though not yet mainstream, is still gaining fans in classrooms across the country, some stakeholders say. Curriculum News Top News'

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Can VR help multilingual students better grasp science concepts?

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Virtual reality can add nonverbal cues to lessons The lead researcher and her colleagues worked with a middle school science teacher and English as New Language teacher to develop a virtual reality game featuring content taught in the science classes. The study included 97 seventh grade students in an urban middle school in Indiana.

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Training in media literacy is in order

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A 2016 Stanford University study showed that middle school, high school, and college students have difficulty judging the credibility of online information and are frequently duped by fake news, biased sources, and sponsored content. Last year, the Newseum in Washington hosted a three-day seminar on media literacy for teachers.

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Flipping the classroom together—from 3,000 miles away

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Who says you can only use the flipped teaching method in your own class or with other teachers in your school or district? The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., was introduced to the flipped learning concept. ā€œI

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Does Flipped Classroom Work? Check out this Article

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I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either. I tossed it into the category of something to try when whatever I was using didn’t work.

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Social-Emotional Learning Competencies Get a Boost from Classroom Technology

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In the Fresno Unified School District , administrators adopted a digital collaboration platform with the intention of improving social emotional learning, but also saw academic benefits. After adopting the platform, participating middle school students were 25 percent more likely to meet or exceed language and math standards. .