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Download full textSteven B. Mertens; Micki M. Caskey – Middle Grades Review, 2024
Young adolescents undergo rapid physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and sexual development, including puberty, sexual awareness, gender identity, physiological brain and cognitive growth, complex emotions, and impulse control. Tragically, thousands of adolescents die daily from mostly preventable causes such as violence, sexual health problems…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Risk Assessment, At Risk Persons
Katy Farber; Rachel Mark – Middle Grades Review, 2024
How do service learning and self-directed learning connect and what are the implications for early adolescent students? The authors explore both the service learning and self-directed learning literature and research to discover the connections between the two approaches and concepts. This essay reviews existing frameworks for self-directed…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Service Learning, Early Adolescents, Student Development
Direct linkWibowo, Jonas; Krieger, Claus; Gaum, Christian; Dyson, Ben – European Physical Education Review, 2023
Theoretical foundations are fundamental to research in health and physical education. They reflect historical and cultural ideas and values. In this article, we seek to introduce the philosophy of "Bildung" from the Nordic-German cultural region to an English-speaking audience as one theoretical foundation for student-centered teaching.…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Student Centered Learning, Health, Physical Education
Graham, Melissa; Zapata, Johana Thomas; McDuffie, Amy Roth; Blake, Nicole – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
Selecting and implementing a new mathematics curriculum program that is both high quality and is supported by stakeholders is a challenging endeavor. In this article, the authors share a year-long process in which a school district's (SD) elementary mathematics committee (EMC) engaged in exploring, testing, and selecting a curriculum program to…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Faculty Development, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Get Fit! With Math and Lit: Pedagogical Implications for a Newly Developed Physical Activity Program
Brittany Pinkerton; Christine Craddock – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
This article details the development of a physical activity curriculum used in an after-school program for youths. The program, Get Fit! With Math & Lit, employed culturally relevant pedagogies as its guiding framework and the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model to structure its content. This multifaceted framework of the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, After School Programs, Program Development, Curriculum Development
Robins, Jennifer H.; Sanguras, Laila Y.; Carpenter, Ashley Y. – Gifted Child Today, 2023
In this article, we focus on two components of the Online Curriculum Consortium for Accelerating Middle School (OCCAMS) project: the curriculum frameworks and the curriculum development process. The frameworks include the Integrated Curriculum Model (advanced content, unit themes, and process/product), culturally responsive curriculum, and talent…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Language Arts, Culturally Relevant Education, Acceleration (Education)
Shaylyn Marks; Alice Hays; Tim Monreal; Amardeep Bajwa – Voices from the Middle, 2024
Inspired by the work of Muhammad (2020) and building upon the previous work of Hays (2021) in using young adolescent literature as a tool for social change, the authors highlight the ways in which educators such as Amardeep Bajwa can cultivate students' intellect through literature circle-based activities. More specifically, Hays worked with local…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Social Change, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Eva M. Gibson; Mariama I. Cook Sandifer; Kimberly Rollins; Felix Osagie-Ekhovbiye – Professional School Counseling, 2024
The American School Counselor Association calls for counselors to utilize multitiered systems of support to minimize gaps. Specifically, Tier 2 interventions provide a method to address equity issues and foster growth. Black male students experience the greatest disparities in schools; therefore, school counselors should consider culturally…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, African American Students, Males, Multi Tiered Systems of Support
Michael DiCicco; Shawn A. Faulkner; Mac Cooley – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint article is to share the reflections of school and university leaders on the success of their emerging school-university partnership for the preparation of middle school teachers. Design/methodology/approach: The article is a reflective paper in which the leaders of the school-university partnership discuss…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Teacher Education Programs, Middle School Teachers
Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Brooke B. Eisenbach; Jason S. Frydman – Middle School Journal, 2024
Mental health challenges are on the rise among today's youth. Recent reports have noted an acute and significant need for school-based mental health education and supportive interventions for children and adolescents. Among these approaches, a growing focus has centered on improving students' mental health literacy (MHL) as a foundational…
Descriptors: Mental Health, English, Language Arts, Middle Schools
Cumming, Michelle M.; Criado, Cristina; Park, Jeehyun; Arango, Alexandra; Rodriguez, Maria L.; Ali, Michael – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2023
For students with significant behavior problems, difficulties with executive function (EF) and associated self-regulation are not uncommon, and middle school is a crucial period when students are at greater risk for escalating behaviors that have long-term impacts (e.g., school dropout, incarceration; Kauffman & Landrum, 2018). Therefore, in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior
Sally Boyd; Nicola Bright – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2023
The education system is in a period of significant change. Wellbeing is an increasing priority as schools reintegrate students after COVID-19 lockdowns and climate-related disasters. A large-scale curriculum refresh programme and the implementation of a new Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum are underway. These changes are encouraging…
Descriptors: Well Being, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness
Jansen, Katie; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Middle School Journal, 2020
Effective educators value young adolescents, are prepared to teach them, and are knowledgeable about this age group. Middle level educators' understanding of adolescent brain development and developmentally responsive teaching strategies can help to support all adolescents' cognitive and social-emotional development in school. This article…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Cognitive Development, Social Development
Allsop, Yvonne; Saxbe, Sarah; Abbott, Virginia; Ha, Seung Yon; Irwin, Mary Kay; Liu, Xingfeiyue; Martinez Calvit, Adriana I.; Sheng, Yue; Tilak, Shantanu; Van Petten, Lauren; Anderman, Eric M. – Middle School Journal, 2023
The disruption of in-person delivery of a sexual health education curriculum to students in 19 urban middle schools in the Midwestern United States was one of many complications in education due the COVID-19 pandemic. Given time constraints and need for program delivery, community partners collaborated to convert the curriculum for virtual…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Sexuality, Health Education, Curriculum Development
