Teaching Writing in the Middle School Common Core and More [Hardcover]

[T]his is a practical guide for a beginning teacher to use over the course of the entire school year&. I am planning to pass this book on to one of my new middle school teachers!With the landscape of education changing rapidly, we need sound wisdom to help guide emerging teachers who often struggle with multiple teaching assignments and little support. Presenting the art of successful teaching and learning as a journey, Roseboro opens her book by providing strategies to help teachers create a strong learning community. Her voice as the knowledgeable guide is realistic and practical, sharing successful instructional techniques with activities and standards-based lessons that can be adapted to any classroom. An invaluable resource for all English language arts teachers, Roseboros book should be required reading for anyone who will be teaching middle school language arts.Teaching is a messy, imprecise, fantastically exciting and spectacularly demanding job but in these pages, Anna doesnt shy away from any of this. Shes blunt, funny, practical, ambitious, demanding, gentle and inspiring. She asks teachers to reflect, she shows teachers how to use best practices and she prods teachers working in a world of standards, standards, standards to remember that we are teaching real human beings in our classrooms. Real kids who laugh, get distracted, crave leadership but demand independence... sometimes all within the same hour. From building classroom libraries to grading, from recognizing the challenges of adolescents to validating the impact of whole-child learning on academic performance, this text offers a banquet table of idea, tools, stories and strategies which are sure to benefit new and veteran educators alike.American schools would be much better off if we had a photocopy machine that could replicate more Anna Roseboros for our academic world. Alas, this text is the next best thing.As Head of Middle School at a small, private, independent school, I would happilyl“