Imagine a Place
Stories from Middle Grades Educators
- 181 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Imagine a Place
Stories from Middle Grades Educators
About this book
Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengths-based middle grades education thrive. Imagine places of learning and inspiration for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and teacher candidates. Imagine a Place: Stories From Middle Grades Educators, a new anthology of teacher-written narratives, focuses on educators' stories that have the power to offer hope, ignite creativity, and provide practical ideas for middle grades teachers.
Imagine a Place is filled with stories of joy, stories of relationships, and stories of finding the treasure in challenging situations that provide powerful insight into the world of teaching young adolescent learners. Along with teacher narratives, the editors of this book provide questions and exercises for thoughtful reflections on the themes and issues raised in each story as well as guidance for the reader to write his or her own account of their middle grades teaching experiences. We invite you to join these teachers in their classrooms as they reflect on their experiences with young adolescents in the place we call school.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Imagine a Place
- Series
- Imagine a Place: Stories from Middle Grades Educators
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- I: WELCOME TO THE “IMAGINE A PLACE” CLASSROOMS
- II: STORIES OF JOY, MEANING, AND DEEP CONNECTION THROUGH CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION
- 1: IT’S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
- 2: MATHOGRAPHY: A Tool For Fostering Mathematics Identity
- 3: RE-IMAGINING OUR IDENTITY: How a Sustainability Class Merges School, Community, and Environment
- 4: THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON
- 5: GOING OUT AND GOING WITHIN
- II: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- III: STORIES OF RELATIONSHIPS AND YOUNG ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
- 6: MATEO AND THE FIELD GUIDE MANUAL FROM AFGHANISTAN
- 7: SO MUCH MORE THAN TEACHING
- 8: IS LUKE HERE TODAY?
- 9: CONVERSATIONS FROM THE MIDDLE
- 10: THE STARFISH EFFECT: It Matters to This One
- 11: WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN
- III: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- IV: FINDING THE TREASURE IN CHALLENGING SITUATIONS: Stories of Students Who Remind Us Who We Are
- 12: PIECES OF WORK: Seeing Beyond Behavior
- 13: A VULNERABLE STANZA
- 14: HUMILITY FROM A HUBCAP
- 15: SOMETHING ABOUT THOSE EYES
- 16: ON BEING MS. LUTZ
- 17: FINDING MYSELF WITH TEEN WRITERS
- 18: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
- IV: DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- V: EXPLORING STORIES: Recommendations and Resources
- 19: WRITING YOUR STORY
- 20: AN EXERCISE IN REFLECTION FOR TEACHER CANDIDATES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ONLINE AND PRINT RESOURCES
- ABOUT THE EDITORS
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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