Making Middle School

Steve Fulton, Cynthia D. Urbanski

ISBN 10: 0814130666 / ISBN 13: 9780814130667

Edité par National Council of Teachers of English, US, 2020

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• Titre: Making Middle School
• Éditeur: National Council of Teachers of English, US
• Date de parution: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0814130666
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780814130667
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

Making Middle School is the story of eighth-grade English teacher Steve Fulton and science teacher Tiffany Green's explorations of the intersections between critical literacy and science through maker spaces alongside their students.

Steve and Tiffany, with thinking partner Cindy Urbanski, use the idea of make to center student learning in their classrooms as well as to democratize learning, back-loading English and science standards while front-loading the current focus on STEAM.

Making--following one's own desire to create--is based on principles of connected learning, where students work in community to challenge themselves, to be creative, and to wonder about their world. Making represents a pathway directed by the learner and allowed to unfold organically, without a scripted route or destination. By looking up close at the real work of teachers and students, Fulton and Urbanski illustrate the rich and real applications of a make-based approach in today's middle school classrooms.

À propos de l?auteur

Cynthia D. Urbanski is a former middle school and high school teacher and mother of two children. She is currently a freelance Ethnographer, teacher for North Carolina Virtual Public Schools, and Adjunct Graduate faculty at Gardner-Webb University and a Teacher Consultant for the UNC Charlotte Writing Project. Her best days are those when teachers let her teach their classes. She is the author of The Workshop Approach to High School English, Untangling Middle School Reform and co-author of Thinking Out Loud on Paper and Making Middle School. She has a PhD in Urban Literacy K-12.