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University of Vermont

2020

Middle grades

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The Pandemic As Pedagogical Provender: A Response To “The Global Pandemic As Learning Opportunities About The World: Extending School Curriculum”, Mary Beth Schaefer Dec 2020

The Pandemic As Pedagogical Provender: A Response To “The Global Pandemic As Learning Opportunities About The World: Extending School Curriculum”, Mary Beth Schaefer

Middle Grades Review

In this article, Mary Beth Schaefer responds to Bogum Yoon’s essay, “The Global Pandemic as Learning Opportunities about the World: Extending School Curriculum,” published in Middle Grades Review (2020). Schaefer situates Yoon’s ideas for integrative curriculum within core philosophies of the middle grades movement and challenges the field to take up Yoon’s suggestions to engage all middle grades students in integrative global investigations of the pandemic; furthermore, Schaefer suggests that educators might use these investigations as a way to initiate conversations with middle grades students and educators in other countries to facilitate international discourses and global perspectives.


Leveraging Community Partnerships To Engage Digitally Foreign Learners In Response To Covid-19, W. Keith Burgess, Jimmeka L. Anderson Jun 2020

Leveraging Community Partnerships To Engage Digitally Foreign Learners In Response To Covid-19, W. Keith Burgess, Jimmeka L. Anderson

Middle Grades Review

This practitioner perspective discusses how creating and leveraging community partnerships in response to COVID-19 enhanced remote learning with science curriculum in an urban middle school with digitally foreign learners. The term digitally foreign learners was coined by the authors to contextualize the experiences of students with limited digital learning both at home and in school as a result of the digital divide. By developing a partnership with the nonprofit organization, I AM not the MEdia, Inc., along with parents and an external educator, the authors describe how a classroom blog site was created that enhanced remote learning engagement with …


Middle Grades Education In The Age Of Covid-19: Editorial Remarks, James F. Nagle, Penny A. Bishop Jun 2020

Middle Grades Education In The Age Of Covid-19: Editorial Remarks, James F. Nagle, Penny A. Bishop

Middle Grades Review

No abstract provided.


Teaching And Learning For Our Times: Editorial Remarks, James F. Nagle, Penny A. Bishop Apr 2020

Teaching And Learning For Our Times: Editorial Remarks, James F. Nagle, Penny A. Bishop

Middle Grades Review

No abstract provided.


Teacher Roles In Personalized Learning Environments., Penny Bishop, John Matthew Downes, Steven Netcoh, Katy Farber, Jessica Demink-Carthew, Tricia Brown, Rachel Mark Jan 2020

Teacher Roles In Personalized Learning Environments., Penny Bishop, John Matthew Downes, Steven Netcoh, Katy Farber, Jessica Demink-Carthew, Tricia Brown, Rachel Mark

Tarrant Institute for Innovative Education Publications

As school districts, major cities, and entire states in the United States adopt personalized learning as a reform strategy focused on the co-construction of learning opportunities between teachers and students, educators face shifting roles. This study examined the roles of teachers in personalized learning environments within a policy context of statewide legislation of personalized learning plans, flexible educational pathways, and proficiency-based assessment. The study used data from interviews with a purposefully selected group of 20 elementary and middle school teachers from 11 schools. Findings revealed teachers’ perceptions of their roles as (a) empowerers, (b) scouts, ( …