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Enough about You, Let's Talk about Me: Student Voice in the Classroom
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Mee, Molly – National Middle School Association (NJ3), 2007
Many middle school students claim that their voices are ignored in the classroom, where the attitude is too often that the teacher holds the one right answer. Instead of this approach, teachers may wish to use the Socratic Seminar, which prompts students to examine issues and ideas through dialogue and actively involves and motivates them, giving…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Middle School Students, Student Participation
Classrooms and Literacy.
Bloome, David, Ed. – 1989
This book is intended for researchers and teachers interested in literacy and concerned about classrooms as a context for literacy activity and learning. The book contains the following chapters: (1) "What It Means to be Literate about Classrooms" (Lyn Corno); (2) "Beyond Access: An Ethnographic Study of Reading and Writing in a…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Computer Assisted Instruction
A Teacher Learns in the Context of a Social Studies Workshop.
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Seabrook, Ginny – Harvard Educational Review, 1991
When a seventh grade social studies class was redesigned in a workshop format, the teacher's role became less autocratic, the class atmosphere became more relaxed, and students asked more open-ended questions. Both teacher and students could learn from each other through the process of inquiry. (SK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Grade 7, Nontraditional Education
Situated Programming in a LEGOLogo Environment.
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Enkenberg, Jorma – Computers and Education, 1994
Discussion of how to teach thinking and problem-solving skills focuses on a study of seventh graders that attempted to convey expertlike behavior using LEGOLogo to explain how a washing machine operates. Topics addressed include concept representation and mental models; cognitive apprenticeship; and LEGOTClogo as a learning environment. (Contains…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Educational Environment, Grade 7
Sounds from the Heart: Learning To Listen to Girls.
Barbieri, Maureen – 1995
Describing a teacher's struggle to help her seventh-grade students reach their full potential, this book is about girls--their learning, their social dilemmas, and their dreams, hopes, and fears. The book reveals the obstacles the teacher faced and how her students collaborated with her to become curriculum builders as they explored issues such as…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Females
Things College Never Taught Me (New Teachers).
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Paschke, Meredith – English Journal, 1996
Describes a first-year teacher's experience teaching unruly seventh graders and how she has learned, to a degree, to smile and to be patient, and find consolation in those students who have written to her to express how much she has helped them through her teaching and counseling. (TB)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Environment, Grade 7, High Risk Students
Thoreau and His Friends: Building Castles in the Air.
Tokarz, Nancy – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1999
A seventh-grade teacher describes how her students gradually became engaged in a year-long project on Thoreau. Although initially resistant and unenthusiastic, the students became interested after two field trips involving living-history experiences, and went on to write a play involving Thoreau, his contemporary and 20th-century…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Activities, Conservation (Environment), Grade 7