Ellis Hurd, Kathleen M. Brinegar, Lisa M. Harrison
{"title":"A year for change","authors":"Ellis Hurd, Kathleen M. Brinegar, Lisa M. Harrison","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.2000218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.2000218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"2 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41713542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making irrational numbers real","authors":"Janet Shiver, Peter Klosterman","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1997534","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1997534","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract One of the greatest conceptual difficulties faced by middle level mathematics students is developing a rich understanding of irrational numbers that includes recognizing that irrational numbers are truly real numbers with an exact value and an exact place on the number line. Developing a deep conceptual understanding of irrational numbers is essential for extending students’ mathematical knowledge of number sets from the set of rational numbers to the set of all real numbers. In this article, we identify some pedagogical missteps that lead to misunderstandings and then explore pedagogically sound methods for combating student misconceptions. Here, we introduce, by means of two hands-on activities, the use of multiple representations for helping middle level students develop a more robust, less fragile understanding of irrational numbers.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"36 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46849557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of our middle level students in the online environment","authors":"David H. Vawter, Deborah H. McMurtrie","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1997532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1997532","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and transition to online learning brings new challenges in meeting the unique social and emotional needs of young adolescents. Furthermore, the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated deep inequities in our society. The crisis highlights the growing racial and economic disparities that occur when students do not have the online tools they need. These marginalized groups include children living in poverty, children with limited or no Internet access, homeless children, English Language Learners (ELLs), children receiving special education services, and traumatized youth. We offer recommendations and strategies to build community, connections, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) competencies.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"26 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46056397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Summer P. Maunakea, Crystal Simanu, Sabrina Suluai-Mahuka
{"title":"Culturally sustaining web 2.0 technology use in the Pacific: Innovations from American Samoa and Hawaiʻi","authors":"Summer P. Maunakea, Crystal Simanu, Sabrina Suluai-Mahuka","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1999747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1999747","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study takes a transnational and collaborative approach to explore how Pacific Island educators are using web 2.0 technology to enhance instruction and facilitate culturally sustaining learning opportunities for emergent bilingual and multilingual students. It is also an analysis of the digital divide for young adolescent users due to linguistic, economic, and geographic barriers. Two middle level education vignettes are presented—one from American Samoa and one from Hawaiʻi. First, we explore the areas of technology use, collaborative learning, and culturally sustaining education within our unique Pacific contexts. Each vignette consists of an overview of the technology usage within our Pacific contexts, connections to The Successful Middle School: This We Believe, results, and next steps. This study caters to educators working with multilingual and multicultural populations and contributes to the knowledge base of culturally sustaining pedagogyin middle level online learning environments.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"16 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47151766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Testimonios and picturebooks: An Afro-Latino adolescent’s exploration of immigration stories through the lens of LatCrit and testimonios","authors":"Jason D. Mizell","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1997533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1997533","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper explores how LatCrit and testimonios were used to explore and make sense of one Afro-Latino adolescent’s immigration story. Picturebooks written by those emic to a community have long been acknowledged as providing a site where children of color can find a space that not only validates their lived experiences but also provides a counternarrative or testimonio that decenters negative hegemonic narratives that position Latiné youth as the “other.” This study contributes to the body of scholarship about the significance of using emic entry-point text picturebooks in middle schools to help youth, parents, and teachers to combat anti-Latiné and Anti-Black-Latiné negative stereotypes as part of a larger effort to cultivate inclusive middle school learning environments.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"42 6","pages":"4 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41330901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kathleen M. Brinegar, Ellis Hurd, Lisa M. Harrison
{"title":"There is much to gain when we refuse to focus on learning loss","authors":"Kathleen M. Brinegar, Ellis Hurd, Lisa M. Harrison","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1979832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1979832","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":" ","pages":"2 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48343853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cory T. Brown, Pamela Correll, Kimberly J. Stormer
{"title":"The “new” normal: Re-imagining professional development amidst the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Cory T. Brown, Pamela Correll, Kimberly J. Stormer","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1978787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1978787","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, transitioning to online education proved to be difficult due to lack of training, resources, and funding to adequately provide what every student and teacher needed. We present a framework for ongoing professional development for in-service teachers to expand their attitudes and beliefs about culturally relevant and culturally responsive teaching during a global pandemic. Specifically, we look at how professional development can build and sustain equitable instructional practices through culturally responsive teaching while addressing inequities that exist in student technology use and access. In an effort to encourage teachers to facilitate culturally responsive learning opportunities and environments and “perpetuate equitable surveillance of student technology use and access” we suggest a virtual professional development framework that includes professional learning communities, personal coaching, classroom observations, and self-reflection.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":" ","pages":"5 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48349103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Well, I am an outsider","authors":"Grace R. Stormer","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1979833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1979833","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"4 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46869871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preparing middle level teachers through a collaborative documentary novel study","authors":"K. Barker, S. Pettit, C. Pace","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1978789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1978789","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article describes how preservice teachers (and one inservice teacher) gained content knowledge and pedagogical skills through reading a documentary novel, a genre that combines fictional storytelling with historical primary sources. Preservice teachers read the novel as a required text in a site-based undergraduate course focused on children’s and young adult literature, while an inservice teacher conducted a novel study with her fifth-grade class using the same text. Analysis of course documents, observation notes, and individual and focus group interview transcripts highlighted layers of learning for inservice and preservice teachers and their young adolescent students that supported curriculum and instruction characteristics of successful middle school classrooms. Findings revealed that incorporating a documentary novel study in preservice teacher coursework resulted in increased content knowledge and pedagogical skills necessary for engaging middle level students in learning experiences around integrative and challenging texts. Furthermore, purposeful instruction around a documentary novel featuring highly relatable adolescent characters and a plot that integrated world and everyday life events fostered deep thinking and connections for middle grades students around themes of justice within the context of family, friends, and school and in the shadow of a major political crisis.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"25 - 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49049679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina J. Lunsmann, Jori S. Beck, KaaVonia Hinton, Bettie Perry
{"title":"Middle level teacher recruitment: Challenging deficit narratives","authors":"Christina J. Lunsmann, Jori S. Beck, KaaVonia Hinton, Bettie Perry","doi":"10.1080/00940771.2021.1978788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2021.1978788","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Perceptions of middle level learners vary, and unfortunately, some are deficit-oriented, labeling young adolescents as “hormonal” and “erratic” without a deep understanding of their emotional and physical development or the knowledge and skills that they bring to a classroom. In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for this deficit narrative—including the marginalization of middle level learners—from interviews conducted with teacher candidates in elementary, middle, secondary, and K-12 programs in two different states. Three themes around perceptions of teaching middle grades students are shared: adult needs and interests, resistance to student agency, and challenging the deficit narrative. We posit that developing a broader understanding of young adolescents might inform and inspire teacher candidates to choose to become middle school teachers. Thus, we encourage an asset approach to recruitment of middle level teacher candidates entering teacher preparation programs, and we offer recommendations for middle level recruitment into teacher education programs with an explicitly asset lens.","PeriodicalId":37061,"journal":{"name":"Middle School Journal","volume":"52 1","pages":"14 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49378443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}