Hi. Thank you so much for your podcast. I just finished my first year of teaching 6th-grade ELA. I am so exhausted but not burned out. What's keeping me going is trusting that I will improve with time. At one point when I was driving to work, I said to myself, "You know what would be great? What if there was a middle school ELA podcast out there that would talk about ways to teach the strands of ELA effectively?" Then I found your podcast, and it is exactly what I had envisaged in my mind that day driving to work. Now that it's summer, I have time to listen to these and put them on in the background while exercising, driving, or cooking. I am of course trying to enjoy my summer and take a break, but it's so helpful just to be storing this wisdom you are sharing in the back of my head so that next year, I will have some of these ideas in my brain to extract from. Thank you so much. I am so excited to look at your resources eventually. One topic I would love to hear you-all talk about is on note-taking, how to train middle school students how to take notes. Admittedly, this was a huge struggle of mine. I know there are AVID strategies out there and stuff, but I barely had my kids take notes all year last year. I just had no idea how to train them to take notes, and I think it reflected big time in their academic performance. I think it's even more important in a pandemic/post-pandemic world to have a discussion on this because students who were in elementary school seem to really struggle with organizing in general but especially organizing information in their brains. I gave them graphic organizers during the year to help them, but I would just put the information on there without requiring them to fill anything out. Whenever I made the notes unfinished like cloze notes, it would take so long for students to fill out, an they'd just raise their hand and say, "What was the answer to blank #3 again?" It was a mess. So, I would love to hear you both talk on what strategies you used in the classroom for helping your students take notes. If you already discussed ELA middle school note-taking in a past podcast, please let me know which one. I tried searching for it and couldn't find anything. Thank you. :)
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Hi. Thank you so much for your podcast. I just finished my first year of teaching 6th-grade ELA. I am so exhausted but not burned out. What's keeping me going is trusting that I will improve with time. At one point when I was driving to work, I said to myself, "You know what would be great? What if there was a middle school ELA podcast out there that would talk about ways to teach the strands of ELA effectively?" Then I found your podcast, and it is exactly what I had envisaged in my mind that day driving to work. Now that it's summer, I have time to listen to these and put them on in the background while exercising, driving, or cooking. I am of course trying to enjoy my summer and take a break, but it's so helpful just to be storing this wisdom you are sharing in the back of my head so that next year, I will have some of these ideas in my brain to extract from. Thank you so much.
I am so excited to look at your resources eventually.
One topic I would love to hear you-all talk about is on note-taking, how to train middle school students how to take notes. Admittedly, this was a huge struggle of mine. I know there are AVID strategies out there and stuff, but I barely had my kids take notes all year last year. I just had no idea how to train them to take notes, and I think it reflected big time in their academic performance. I think it's even more important in a pandemic/post-pandemic world to have a discussion on this because students who were in elementary school seem to really struggle with organizing in general but especially organizing information in their brains. I gave them graphic organizers during the year to help them, but I would just put the information on there without requiring them to fill anything out. Whenever I made the notes unfinished like cloze notes, it would take so long for students to fill out, an they'd just raise their hand and say, "What was the answer to blank #3 again?" It was a mess. So, I would love to hear you both talk on what strategies you used in the classroom for helping your students take notes. If you already discussed ELA middle school note-taking in a past podcast, please let me know which one. I tried searching for it and couldn't find anything. Thank you. :)
Hi! We are so glad you found us! Welcome to our EB world. I will pass along this topic to our team to consider for the future. Thanks for your feedback!
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