Teaching Helping Skills to Middle School Students
Teaching Helping Skills to Middle School Students

Author: Robert D. Myrick

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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This program leader's guide provides suggestions for organizing, administrating, and evaluating a middle school peer helper program. The first chapter builds a case for peer helpers. The problems of youth, peer influence and personal growth, mobilizing student resources, peer facilitators and helpers, four basic helping roles, and advantages of peer helper programs are discussed. The second chapter focuses on selecting a training approach. The academic elective class, summer course, teacher-advisor group, retreat-workshop, school club, and project-focused team are explored. The third chapter examines the primary elements involved in organizing training programs. Program goals and objectives, the program trainer/coordinator, program support, how many to train, how to select the students, when and where to meet, and how to be helpful are discussed. The fourth chapter organizes the training program into four different phases. Getting organized, facilitative skills, decision making and problem solving, and getting ready to help others are discussed. Ethics and confidentiality, responsible referrals, critical moments in peer helping, pitfalls to avoid, and evaluating the training are also discussed. The fifth chapter focuses on implementing peer helper projects. The sixth chapter discusses teaching others in peer-led learning centers. The seventh chapter addresses preventing alcohol and drug abuse. Gateway drugs and illegal drugs are identified. The eighth chapter discusses networking, and the ninth chapter focuses on program evaluation. (LLL)

Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students
Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students

Author: Maurice J. Elias

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2019-01-28

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1631981862

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Develop emotional intelligence and strengthen social emotional skills in adolescents with this practical, hands-on resource. Helping students develop emotional intelligence (EQ) and social emotional skills is essential to preparing them for success in college, careers, and adult life. This practical resource for educators explains what emotional intelligence is and why it’s important for all students. Boost Emotional Intelligence in Students lays out detailed yet flexible guidelines for teaching fundamental EQ and social emotional skills in an intentional and focused way. The book is split into three modules, which correspond to three main skill areas: Self-awareness and self-management Social awareness and relationship skills Responsible decision-making and problem-solving Each module features ten hands-on, research-based lessons, which are focused on a critical EQ concept and centered around productive and respectful discussion. All lessons are designed to take approximately 35 minutes each but can easily be adapted to meet the specific needs of a school or group as they work to develop emotional intelligence and social emotional skills in their students. Digital content includes reproducible forms to use with students.

Middle School Matters
Middle School Matters

Author: Phyllis L. Fagell

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2019-08-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0738235091

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A counselor and popular Washington Post contributor offers a new take on grades 6-8 as a distinct developmental phase--and the perfect time to set up kids to thrive. Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of a difference than the setting). Though the transition from childhood to adolescence can be tough for kids, this time of rapid physical, intellectual, moral, social, and emotional change is a unique opportunity to proactively build character and confidence. Fagell helps parents use the middle school years as a low-stakes training ground to teach kids the key skills they'll need to thrive now and in the future, including making good friend choices, negotiating conflict, regulating their own emotions, be their own advocates, and more. To answer parents' most common questions and struggles with middle school-aged children, Fagell combines her professional and personal expertise with stories and advice from prominent psychologists, doctors, parents, educators, school professionals, and middle schoolers themselves.

Helping Skills for Middle School Students
Helping Skills for Middle School Students

Author: Robert D. Myrick

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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This book presents a developmental model for peer helping which places less emphasis on students in crises and more emphasis on helping them in advance of serious problems. The first chapter introduces peer helping and the facilitative model and provides an overview of the book. The second chapter discusses principles of human behavior. The third chapter explores the concept of relating. Facilitative conditions of caring accepting understanding, trusting, and respecting are discussed. The fourth chapter focuses on listening skills. Four steps for attentive listening are outlined and discussed. The fifth chapter deals with responding. High facilitative responses, feeling-focused responses, clarifying and summarizing, open questions, acknowledging, linking, complimenting and confronting, reassuring and supporting, analyzing and interpreting, and advising and evaluating are all discussed. The sixth chapter focuses on giving feedback. The facilitative feedback model is presented, and guidelines are offered for giving feedback. The seventh chapter discusses decision making. Five focused questions are offered to help with making responsible and effective decisions. A problem-solving model is presented which encourages the use of high facilitative responses. The eighth chapter suggests helping projects for peer helpers such as helping interviews, peer support groups, planning leisure activities, peer tutoring, buddy systems, and large group presentations. (LLL)

Help! I'm Teaching Middle School Science
Help! I'm Teaching Middle School Science

Author: C. Jill Swango

Publisher: NSTA Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1933531800

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Like your own personal survival guide, Help IOCOm Teaching Middle School Science is a nontechnical how-to manualOCoespecially for first-year teachers. But even veteran teachers can benefit from the plentiful ideas, examples, and tips on teaching science the way middle-schoolers learn best. The book covers all the basics: .: .; what to do on the first day of school (including icebreaker activities), .; preparing safe and effective lab lessons, .; managing the classroom, .; working with in-school teams as well as parents. But its practicalOCoand encouragingOCoapproach doesnOCOt mean it shortchanges the basics of effective pedagogy. YouOCOll learn: how to handle cooperative learning and assessment; how to help students write effectively and; the importance of modeling for early adolescents."

Teaching Reading in Middle School
Teaching Reading in Middle School

Author: Laura Robb

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780590685603

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Get the "big picture" of teaching reading in the middle school, including research, as well as the practical details you need to help every stydent become a better reader. Veteran teacher Laura Robb shares how to: teach reading strategies across the curriculum, present mini-lessons that deepen students' knowledge of how specific reading strategies work; help kids apply the strategies through guided practice; support struggling readers with a plan of action that improves their reading motivation; and much more.

Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation
Relationship, Responsibility, and Regulation

Author: Kristin Van Marter Souers

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2018-12-12

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1416626875

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In this stirring follow-up to the award-winning Fostering Resilient Learners, Kristin Van Marter Souers and Pete Hall take you to the next level of trauma-invested practice. To get there, they explain, educators need to build a "nest"—a positive learning environment shaped by three new Rs of education: relationship, responsibility, and regulation. Drawing from their extensive experience working with schools, students, and families throughout the country, the authors Explain how to create a culture of safety in which everyone feels valued, important, and capable of learning. Describe the four areas of need—emotional, relational, physical, and control—that drive student behaviors and show how to meet these needs with interventions framed around the new three Rs. Illustrate trauma-invested practices in action through real scenarios that identify students' unmet needs, examine the situation from five stakeholder perspectives, and suggest interventions to support students and their families. Offer opportunities to challenge your beliefs and develop deeper and different ways of thinking about your role in your students' lives. Educators have a unique opportunity to influence students' learning, attitudes, and futures. This book will invigorate your practice and equip you to empower those you serve—whatever their personal histories.

Middle School Study Skills
Middle School Study Skills

Author: John Ernst

Publisher: Teacher Created Resources

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781557341945

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"Student-directed activities help middle schoolers learn how to get organized, how grading is done, and how to develop good study skills."--Amazon.com

How to Be Successful in Your First Year of Teaching Middle School
How to Be Successful in Your First Year of Teaching Middle School

Author: Mary Ellen Griffith

Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1601383363

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Middle school, the formative years in which students reach puberty and start the massive, life changing alterations that will determine who they are, is one of the hardest times for any new teacher to start their career. Problem students can become harder to deal with and those who are not prepared often don t make it through their first year without a little help. This book has been written to help every teacher who is dreading rather than looking forward to that first day in front of their new classes. This heavily researched, detailed book will help first-year middle school teachers learn how to deal with supplies, planning, parents, overcrowded classrooms, the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, piles of paperwork, money shortages due to budget cuts, negativity from pubescent students and other staff members, at-risk students, students who are capable but choose not to work, and special needs students. You will learn how to ask principals and administrators for help, how to memorize names quickly, how to create seating charts, how to write lesson plans, how to follow a daily routine, how to help struggling readers, how to gain respect, how to get a mentor, how to develop and implement a grading system, how to discipline students who feel they are more mature than they are, how to create assessments, how to find free things for teachers, and how to build your confidence. The most important thing of all, you will learn how to deal with the rapidly changing emotions and hormones of new teenagers and middle school age students. In addition, you will read about where to go for support, the reality of spending your own money on classroom supplies, mandated tests, technology solutions, and behavior management skills. We spent countless hours interviewing second year middle school teachers, as well as veteran teachers, and have gathered and presented their advice for how to deal with the first year in teaching at a middle school. With this book in hand, you will not only survive you will feel empowered to go on after your first year and become a powerful motivating force for scores of young people for years to come. Atlantic Publishing is a small, independent publishing company based in Ocala, Florida. Founded over twenty years ago in the company president's garage, Atlantic Publishing has grown to become a renowned resource for non-fiction books. Today, over 450 titles are in print covering subjects such as small business, healthy living, management, finance, careers, and real estate. Atlantic Publishing prides itself on producing award winning, high-quality manuals that give readers up-to-date, pertinent information, real-world examples, and case studies with expert advice. Every book has resources, contact information, and web sites of the products or companies discussed.

Inclusion in Action
Inclusion in Action

Author: Nicole Eredics

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781681252247

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To create truly inclusive school and classroom environments, educators must be prepared to include all students--including students with intellectual disabilities, who are not always given the opportunity to be full participants in the classroom. This book provides an overview of the history of inclusion, the philosophy underlying inclusion, and the role that curriculum accommodations and modifications play in making inclusion possible. The author discusses four ways to modify curriculum for students working well below grade level: altering content, conceptual difficulty, educational goals, or instructional methods. She then provides 40 curriculum modification strategies, based on Robert Marzano's New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, with directions for implementation and samples of student work.