Middle Level Learners
Teacher Learning
Definitions/Concepts
Then and Now
ML Curriculum
100

What is an example of an inventory teachers can give students to learn about them?

What is learning or cultural?

100
What is one of the five roles of a middle level educator?

What is....?

100

One's awareness of his/her own thought processes, strengths, strategies, and self-regulation is called 

What is metacognition?

100

Who is the "Father of the Middle School?"

Who is William Alexander?

100

What is one of the four characteristics of an effective curriculum for middle level learners?

What is exploratory?

200

What is one positive outcome of students practicing reflection?

What is...?

200

What is another of the five roles of a middle level educator?

What is...?

200
Application of what has been learned in new contexts is called

What is transfer?

200

What landmark report came out in 1918?

What is "The Project Method?

200
What is one characteristic of effective curriculum for middle level learners?

What is challenging?

300

When students prepare artifacts from their portfolios and are given the responsibility of explaining their learning to their parents or guardians, this is called 

What is student-led conferences?

300

What should be used as the basis for the type of professional development teachers need?

What is data?
300

The term that encompasses competence, responsibility, affiliation, awareness, and ethical perception of self is

What is personal efficacy?

300

What is an accomplishment of the middle school movement related to teacher preparation?

What is the recognition of the "middle level?"

300

"Students and teachers are engaged in ___, purposeful learning."

What is active?

400

When learners are charged with identifying their own intended learning outcomes, this is known as

What is goal-setting?

400

What is one of the four characteristics of effective professional development?

What is ...?

400

The structure that organizes teachers into interdisciplinary groups and uses this structure to create support is called 

What is teams or teaming?

400

What is an accomplishment of middle level education related to young adolescents?

What is the valuing of their voices in their educational experiences?
400

Curriculum that "crosses the lines of subject-specific disciplines" is ___.

What is integrative?

500

A sense of belonging to and with others as well as to a purpose greater than oneself is called 

What is affiliation?

500

What is another characteristics of effective professional development?

What is ...?
500

What type of intelligence does the text use as the opposite of "fixed?"

What is "incremental," "flexible," and/or "expanding?"

500

What is an accomplishment of the middle level movement related to research?

What is the fact that research supports the middle level concept?

500

This type of learning gives students an opportunity to explore a question or problem in an in-depth study.

What is project-based?

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