
Lessons and Assessments
Planning and assessing middle school lessons can take a long time. Check out these articles and resources to help you reduce the time spent on both of these tasks.

Long Range Plans
Middle school teachers – take the stress out daily lesson planning by downloading these free long range plans for Grades 6 – 8. Split grade lesson plans are also available. These plans are packed with ideas for each month of the school year.
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The Importance of Professional Development for Teachers
Professional development for teachers is something that makes many groan. It is not because we have some inherent resistance to improving ourselves and our teaching

3 Listening Skills Activities For Middle School
Try these 3 listening skills activities for middle school to help students practice and reinforce this valuable skill. Even though every teacher has encouraged his

Free Middle School Lessons
Use these free middle school lessons to help you plan out your lessons. To access each lesson click on the photo or the link provided

3 Easy Ways to Help Middle School Students Organize Their Thinking
Teaching middle school has shown me a few things. One of those things is that middle schoolers have various emotions and thoughts. Helping our students

Free Sub Plans
Some districts require teachers to have ready to go sub plans uploaded in their LMS (Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, etc.,.) or printed out and stored

Think-Pair-Share Teaching Strategy
Students need to talk to each other to help form their opinions and understandings of a topic. Use the Think-Pair-Share teaching strategy to help students

Socratic Seminar Teaching Strategy
As teachers were are always looking for new teaching strategies to keep our lessons fresh and engaging. Below is a brief summary of the Socratic

Inferencing Teaching Strategy
The inferencing teaching strategy is a great addition to any subjects’ lesson plans. People make inferences every day. It is important to teach this skill