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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"middle school curriculum"”.
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An analysis of a middle school curriculum: through the lens of personal responsibility, social responsibility, and social justice
<p>One of the fundamental goals of 21st century schools is for students to become independent thinkers through the use of comprehensive academic curriculum that merges academic and social skills to prepare students to compete and engage in an increasingly changing world. The purpose of this …
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The impact of a Life-Application Learning Instructional Program on struggling readers at the middle school level
… Learning Methods Program on struggling middle school readers. Two questions were explored: 1) How did incorporating life–application learning into the middle school curriculum impact reading motivation?, and 2) How did incorporating life-application learning in the middle school …
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Setting the Standard: Media Literacy Education in Virginia's Public School
… examines the state of media literacy in the middle school curriculum of Virginia's public schools. Through in-depth interviews with state certified teachers of English and Language Arts, the goal was to uncover student, teacher, resource, family, classroom, school, and other structural …
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An Examination of Standardized Language, Mathematics, and Reading Achievement Testing Results when Compared for Middle School Aged Student Leaders and Non-Student Leaders
The evolution of the middle school concept, according to Forte and Schurr (2003), with its own identity and its subsequent implementation, has proven to be an ideal or preferred model for educating students. Knowles and Brown (2000) assert the importance of middle level teachers' ability to nurture …
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Destroy Your School: Building with Kids to Reimagine Learning
… How can a shift in pedagogy shape classrooms, schools, and neighborhoods? This thesis approaches these questions through the under-considered and often-forgotten problem of middle school age education. The project examines and puts forward a new pedagogy that aims to instill architectural …
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Educational Travel and Adolescent Development
… flexibility, and transition back to traditional school environments.
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Educational Travel and Adolescent Development
… flexibility, and transition back to traditional school environments.
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Criteria for Evaluating a Good Reading Program for Grades Five through Eight from Research and Literature as They Apply to Battle Ground, Washington
… to develop criteria that will help Battle Ground schools in planning their fifth through eighth grade reading program.
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Zoom: The Changing Nature of Middle School Shared Instructional Leadership on the Way to the Common Core
<p>The complexities, diversity, and nuances of schools today require the shared leadership of the best and brightest that education has to offer. All across the country, school districts are embarking on the challenging journey toward higher and better standards and performance found in the …
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Instructional Technology Integration and Situational Interest in Math
… integration and situational interest in middle school math so that educational planners will be better informed when making instructional decisions concerning the use of technology in the math classroom. In this study, the relationship between students’ perceptions of teacher technology …
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A study of the effects of an experimental spiral physics curriculum taught to sixth grade girls and boys.
… of using an experimental spiral physics curriculum to a traditional linear physics curriculum for sixth through eighth grades. The study also surveyed students' parents and principals about students' academic history and background as well as identified resilient children's attributes for …
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The Flipped Model Classroom Experience for 8th Grade Students Enrolled in Algebra 1: A Case Study
<p>Finding time to teach, assess, and reteach all required standards in an Algebra 1 course made it challenging for me to incorporate student-driven activities designed to engage students in learning mathematics. To address this problem, I changed to a flipped model classroom defined as the …
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What Influences Girls' Mathematics Achievement? The Stories of Six High Achieving Middle School Females
… in mathematics in a rural South Georgia middle school. This particular study evolved from a quantitative pilot study that caused me to begin thinking about the attitudes and beliefs of my students. The affective factors addressed include attitude toward success, math as a male domain, …