Purpose



Connect in the Middle

Purpose:

The purpose of this wiki is up to its members depending on their need and the connections made as educators join the wiki.

The underlying purpose is to connect middle level educators who are transforming their classroom pedagogy with strategies and curriculum to meet the needs of our students and their very different futures.

This is our neighborhood -- a place to visit for resources and discussion, projects and lessons -- that promote transformation for your classroom through this connection.

It provides a place to note who we are, what we need, and what actions we can take to learn and grow together.

Our work together could be a simple as sharing a resource for teaching allusion (see this prezi by Laura Coughlin ) or as complex as a PBL project (such as I Stand 8 )

It could be a resource for common resources shared in blog posts we write to common prompts, or it could be a place to design projects that connect us as teachers or our students in collaboration or reflection.

Perhaps you would like to write prompts for our students add them to the Connect2Learn blog [ just fill out the Contact Form to become a member ].

For a discussion Forum, please join our MightyBell Connect in the Middle Community.

As middle school educators in this time of inspirational insights in real learning while still tied to a testing focus, we are both stuck in the middle by policy and promise AND impelled from the middle by student culture and expectations.

We're moving forward, and helping each other with direction.