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OverviewMaking Middle School is the story of eighth-grade English teacher Steve Fulton and science teacher Tiffany Green’s explorations of the intersections between critical literacy and science through maker spaces alongside their students. Steve and Tiffany, with thinking partner Cindy Urbanski, use the idea of make to centre student learning in their classrooms as well as to democratize learning, back-loading English and science standards while front-loading the current focus on STEAM. Making - following one’s own desire to create - is based on principles of connected learning, where students work in community to challenge themselves, to be creative, and to wonder about their world. Making represents a pathway directed by the learner and allowed to unfold organically, without a scripted route or destination. By looking up close at the real work of teachers and students, Fulton and Urbanski illustrate the rich and real applications of a make-based approach in today’s middle school classrooms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steve Fulton , Cynthia D. Urbanski , Lil Brannon , Lacy ManshipPublisher: National Council of Teachers of English Imprint: National Council of Teachers of English ISBN: 9780814130667ISBN 10: 0814130666 Pages: 125 Publication Date: 30 April 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAs an educator committed to culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy and conscious of a diverse society's expectations and needs, I believe in fostering critical literacy and science with maker spaces as a unique and innovative approach. Diverse communities will benefit in terms of their critical literacy and STEAM work. In particular, maker spaces can help culturally diverse students who need a space to share their stories and teachers who want to provide spaces for these funds of knowledge that are not part of the standard curriculum. - Fatima Seyma Kizil (Sheyma), Syracuse University """As an educator committed to culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy and conscious of a diverse society's expectations and needs, I believe in fostering critical literacy and science with maker spaces as a unique and innovative approach. Diverse communities will benefit in terms of their critical literacy and STEAM work. In particular, maker spaces can help culturally diverse students who need a space to share their stories and teachers who want to provide spaces for these funds of knowledge that are not part of the standard curriculum."" - Fatima Seyma Kizil (Sheyma), Syracuse University" Author InformationCynthia D. Urbanski is a former middle school and high school teacher and mother of two children. She is currently a freelance Ethnographer, teacher for North Carolina Virtual Public Schools, and Adjunct Graduate faculty at Gardner-Webb University and a Teacher Consultant for the UNC Charlotte Writing Project. Her best days are those when teachers let her teach their classes. She is the author of The Workshop Approach to High School English, Untangling Middle School Reform and co-author of Thinking Out Loud on Paper and Making Middle School. She has a PhD in Urban Literacy K-12. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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