Middle Link Interdisciplinary Support Middle School Mosaic

Lion Taming 101: Reaching and Teaching Young Adolescents
Presenter - Debbie Silver
NMSA (National Middle School Association)
ASD Summer Academy (ASDSA) 2007

Meeting the needs of every learner in a middle school classroom is extremely challenging. Debbie Silver's resources from her 2007 ASDSA class can help us “tame the beast” with practical ways of managing differentiated instruction.

Presentation handout »

Books & Articles by Dr. Debbie Silver

• Because You Teach
  Published by Incentive Publications, 2006. A copy of this resource can be checked out from the Literacy Lending Library.

• Drumming to the Beat of a Different Marcher
  Published by Incentive Publications, 2002. This resource has been purchased for each school’s professional library. An additional copy can be checked out from the Literacy Lending Library.

• Drumming to the Beat of Different Marchers – Engaging Every Learner
  Published by California Middle Level Association, 2007

• It Is More Than Just the Standards
  Published by CUE (California - Computer-Using Educators)

• Thinking “Outside the Lines”
  Written for PBS TAPPED IN Series

Resources

• Anchor Activities
  Differentiate your “bell work” with plenty of choice activities for students that reach all kinds of learners

• Cooperative Learning Job Placards (PDF) or Word version
  Color-coded dots? A Group Participation Number Line? This is one of the best management ideas I have seen for making cooperative groups function painlessly.

• What We Need to Know About Our Students
  Topics for index card profiles on students

• www.debbiesilver.com
  To access Debbie Silver’s other handouts, use IAMATEACHER as a login password.

For more information about the content of this class contact:

Amy Goodman at goodman_amy@asdk12.org or 742-4270
Jan Davis at davis_janet@asdk12.org or 742-4160

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