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But We Don't Got Nothing: Countering Rural Brain Drain by Forging Authentic Connections through Text
Erin Donovan – English Journal, 2017
This article, based on a study in a sixth-grade middle school classroom in the rural southern United States, details a writing project that questions the nature of text and how text might positively affect students' perceptions as they become change agents for their communities.
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Writing Assignments
Simic-Muller, Ksenija – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2015
Preservice teachers often hold deficit views about the students they will teach and their communities. These limiting beliefs can result in lower expectations of and poor outcomes for the students, and need to be addressed in all areas of teacher education, including mathematics courses. The assignment described in this manuscript provides an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics
Mallia, Julie A.; Pawloski, Don; Daisey, Peggy – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2012
Writing allows students to clarify their thinking. Through the process of writing, students recognize what they know and what they still need to learn. This article describes how a middle school mathematics teacher and language arts teacher worked with a secondary content area literacy professor during a specific writing assignment. The "How-to"…
Descriptors: Expertise, Writing Assignments, Content Area Reading, Writing Exercises
Connolly, Maureen; Giouroukakis, Vicky – English Journal, 2012
According to a 2009 AP-MTV survey of 1,247 people ages 14-24, 50% of those surveyed have experienced cyberbullying (Gatti 1). Victims were twice as likely to need help from a mental health professional and were three times more likely to drop out of school than those surveyed who did not report being cyberbullied (5). Given this alarming social…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Adolescents, Victims
Waltz, Josephine – Teaching Pre K-8, 2007
In this article, the author discusses how her sixth-grade students gained writing skills and learned to "dream big dreams." She wanted to celebrate literacy, and also create something that could raise funds to support literacy projects, so she challenged her students to write to their favorite authors and ask each for a recipe. The end result of…
Descriptors: High Risk Students, Cooking Instruction, Writing Skills, Writing Processes
Vanneman, Susan – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 2005
This article describes the experiences of a sixth-grade language arts class that participated in a research and portfolio-writing exercise using the school library media center. Students in this class learned that organization and process are central to the completion of a successful research project. After learning various note-taking strategies…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Language Arts, Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing Processes
Gignoux, Peg; Wilde, Susie – Teaching Artist Journal, 2005
How does one turn a class of sixth graders who are uncomfortable with writing, unfamiliar with art supplies, but good at fidgeting and bickering, into a community that achieves literary, artistic, and civic success? In the spring of 2003, Kestrel Heights teachers asked the authors to team up and help their sixth grade students create something…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Hispanic American Students, Art Activities, Art Education
Graham, Steve; Perin, Dolores – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2007
This report offers a number of specific teaching techniques that research suggests will help 4th- to 12th-grade students in this nation's schools. The report focuses on all students, not just those who display writing difficulties, although this latter group is deservedly the focus of much attention. The premise of this report is that all students…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing Assignments, Writing Difficulties, Sentences