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November, Week 11
Tales From the 'Iron-Gated Prison' That Is Middle School By Liana Heitin on October 31, 2011
A 9th grader named Annie sent a letter to Ira Glass, producer of NPR's This American Life. "I just escaped the whitewashed brick-walled iron-gated prison that is commonly known as middle school," she wrote, "and I'm finally out for good." She asked him to devote an episode to the inside world of middle school. This weekend, Glass aired an absorbing segment in which he did just that. Glass began the show by interviewing Annie. The now high-school student described the interpersonal drama, endless criticism, and fear of being ostracized that characterize the middle school years. "What can be done to make middle school better?" Glass asked. It's a process that students have to go through to figure out who they are, she explained. "I don't think you can really do anything about it." [...] The hour-long radio show brings to light many questions that middle school teachers face daily: • What more can teachers do to make middle school a safe and comfortable place? (See our recent Teacher Book Club discussion on cyberbullying for some ideas on this.) • Is constantly fearing ostracism—or actually being ostracized—really a necessary part of the middle school experience? • Can kids figure out who they are without feeling the anxiety and even anguish of those years? • How else can peer pressure be used for good?
Read more at: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2011/10/tales_from_the_irongated_prison_that_is_middle_school.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/literacy-in-science-word-clouds?fd=0
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