Thread: Are you new or an old pro to Middle School?

I've only been lurking for a long time, but I really agree with this post! MiddleWeb's emails are great. I almost always bookmark or forward one of the links.

I'm new and old.

New to teaching middle schoolers exclusively; I just finished my 3rd year.

Before I moved into the classroom, while I was still doing graduate and post graduate work, I was a library tech for a K-8 school. For 12 years. My position included planning and instruction in information technology for K-12.

When I moved into the classroom, I taught exclusively at K-8 schools, and spent my first 5 years in multi-age classrooms. I never had a traditional middle school classroom, but teamed with middle grades teachers for many cross-grade level projects, so I still worked with them in a more limited capacity.

Three years ago, I took a job in a K-8 school teaching language arts and some humanities to 6th, 7th, and 8th, in a more traditional model. They are grouped into traditional grade level classes, and the curriculum is departmentalized to a certain extent; not to the same extent as in a traditional middle school.

I'll check out the link; thanks!

I'm older than air.

26 years in the classroom, 22 of them in middle school. Yeah, I must be nuts....

But I am always looking for new and betters ways to do things. Excellent site. I will check it out more this summer.

thanks Wig-Wag-- I just finished my first year in Middle School, after 15 at elementary.

this looks like a great resource! w00t!!

I'd forgotten about that site! It's one that I subscribed to under my OLD email address . . . and had the link saved on my OLD computer.

I volunteered to teach gender-grouped classes this year . . . and I asked for boys. I'm probably going to need all the extra help I can get.

Ima: You ARE brave. I think you will need more than that site. :lol: