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Why Middle (and High) School Students Should Have Class Jobs

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By Sarah Gonser Verified
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When Meredith Howard asks her incoming middle schoolers whether they had classroom jobs in elementary school—tasks like line leader or plant waterer—very few raise their hands. “Mostly, for the few who did have jobs, it was things like teacher’s helper, which is more like: the teacher needs someone to take something somewhere,” says Howard, a history and social studies teacher at Albert Hill Middle School in Virginia.
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4 Characteristics of Outstanding ‘Warm Demander’ Teachers

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By Sarah Gonser Verified
| Edutopia Verified
More than a decade ago, on the first day of school, the parent of an incoming kindergartner named Isaiah told Principal Jessica Cabeen that her child would probably never graduate.
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What to Do When Your Lesson Goes Kaput

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By Sarah Gonser Verified
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Five minutes in, Josh Stock knew his lesson about “theme in literature” was bombing. Not prone to giving up, he powered on while his sixth-grade English Language Arts students began doodling in their notebooks or staring into space. “Some kids were bored. Some didn’t understand what I was talking about. Some just didn’t care to learn that day,” Stock recalls. After 20 minutes, “I threw in the towel.
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