The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

After piloting it last year, the public middle school expanded the concept to seventh grade, too, though it looks a little different with the older students. Seventh graders on Stony Brook School’s project-based learning team research how to take care of chickens ahead of an egg delivery.

Project-Based Learning 112

Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Molly Castner, a middle school ELA teacher who, intrigued by the prospect of providing real-time feedback to students and fostering critical thinking, embraced the integration of AI in her classroom. You are still a thinking and feeling human being!

Education 98

Education Middle School Critical Thinking Teaching 98

Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Inside its borders are two of the nation’s best school districts — Cajon Valley Union School District and Vista Unified School District — that are working to provide students with the highest caliber of education possible. Vista Unified School District.

Middle School 91

Middle School Elementary School Critical Thinking Social Studies 91

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

This micro-credential focuses on how Future Ready Librarians “encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.” With teacher librarians across the U.S.

Library 118

Library Artifacts Advocacy Professional Development 118

ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

What her findings mean for educators, she argues, is that lessons for adolescents should be designed to lean into this period of human development. Adolescence is a time when young people are moving out into the world — think of the baby bird as leaving the nest,” she says. And it's important for them to be exploratory.

Teaching 139

Teaching Humanities Critical Thinking Middle School 139

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We expanded the League of Innovative Schools , our national network of forward-thinking school districts, and partnered with middle schools to create innovative learning environments. League of Innovative Schools. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Melissa Gedney.

Education 112

Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 112

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The new standards emphasize scientific inquiry and critical thinking over recitation of facts. And topics that are listed in the standards, like DNA, lend themselves to teaching about vaccines, said Mike Fumagalli, principal at Glenn Westlake Middle School in Illinois and a former high school biology teacher.

Controversial Topics 120

Controversial Topics Middle School Teaching Lesson Plan 120

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

History 126

History Museum Social Studies Geography 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Photo: Kyle Spencer. Others question its efficacy.

Middle School 110

Middle School High School Tradition History 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Positive parental help could make the difference between students being excited about math or falling behind during the pandemic, said Jennifer Bay-Williams, co-author of “Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally” and professor of education at the University of Louisville. That doesn’t turn out to be true.

Elementary School 138

Elementary School High School Tradition Teaching 138

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Instead, video activities should demand interaction, critical thinking, and creativity. Enhances Critical Thinking Effective video teaching goes beyond just showing content; it integrates active learning elements that push students to think critically.

K-12 69

K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 69

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Next, and perhaps most importantly, the 162 students who made the cut attended a five-day boot camp in which they learned crucial workplace skills such as goal setting, effective communication, teamwork, public speaking, conflict resolution and critical thinking. “It Where they’re struggling is to correct some of the behavior issues.”.

K-12 111

K-12 High School Elementary School Critical Thinking 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “Teachers said, ‘If this is good for kids, why not bring it to all of them?’ ” said Steiner. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Instead, video activities should demand interaction, critical thinking, and creativity. Enhances Critical Thinking Effective video teaching goes beyond just showing content; it integrates active learning elements that push students to think critically.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Instead, video activities should demand interaction, critical thinking, and creativity. Enhances Critical Thinking Effective video teaching goes beyond just showing content; it integrates active learning elements that push students to think critically.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

Students of History

MAY 25, 2023

They encourage critical thinking, creativity, and research skills. They also enhance your students' ability to perceive the intricate web of human history. If you want to try the game with middle school or on-level students, there are accommodations you can make to make it fun for them.

History 52

History Critical Thinking Middle School Research Skills 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

The divisions for American students also occur within schools. A 2016 study by the Brookings Institute found that on average, states track three-quarters of eighth graders in math, meaning they might be put on a path in middle school that determines which level of math class they’ll end up in in their final year of high school.

Elementary School 0

Elementary School Economics Cultures Tradition 0

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “‘You guys have really high grades, so we expect you to be able to at least go to a SUNY,’” Mejia recalls staff telling the group. ‘“But Legal Outreach offers an opportunity to build the critical thinking skills and self-confidence its students’ wealthier peers often accrue naturally.

High School 80

High School Charter School Economics Critical Thinking 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Middle school science teacher Kent Heckenlively has spent part of his time teaching, well, not science. Heckenlively works at Gale Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, California. middle-school science teachers have no scientific background. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

Middle School 131

Middle School Controversial Topics Geography Political Science 131

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country. Glenn Youngkin.

Social Studies 143

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson.

Teaching 105

Teaching Middle School Humanities Professional Development 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Six months before she graduates, she is not about to hide her feelings: She hates school. Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. School just isn’t for me. I hate coming to school. I hate waking up early. I hate homework.”. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

High School 105

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. When 16-year-old junior Marion Valcorza first arrived at the school she found a much different experience than what she was accustomed to. “I

Teaching 107

Teaching Education Psychology High School 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

People disagree over whether it should be measured in absolute or relative terms; whether there is a limit to the proportion of humanity that is gifted; whether giftedness can be cultivated; whether it must be backed up by achievement; and whether it should include athletic abilities. But Buffalo’s golden age of integration ebbed quickly.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

—Breck Foster High School Social Studies Teacher, Lake Oswego, Oregon Last year was my first year teaching World History and I was in need of high quality simulations to help my students understand and engage their critical thinking. The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

A high school social studies book, also used in Texas, says of rising temperatures, “Some critics say that this warming is just part of the Earth’s natural cycle,” though, in truth, there’s overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that the current warming is due to human activities.

Teaching 138

Teaching Middle School Humanities High School 138

Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This exercise pushed students to consider the treaty from multiple viewpoints, fostering empathy and critical thinking about the complexities of peace negotiations. This reflection aimed to connect students emotionally to the historical content, fostering empathy and critical thinking about the inequities that shaped early America.

History 97

History Local History Critical Thinking Middle School 97

ED Surge

APRIL 22, 2025

He said DoDEAs curriculum has earned us the distinction of being the top-ranked school system in the United States for four consecutive years, based on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the Nations Report Card. The plaintiffs paint another picture of DoDEA.

Government 81

Government K-12 Library Psychology 81