![]() If you promise five minutes of talking time at the end of class in exchange for hard work the rest of the hour, you’re likely to get full cooperation. Also, know that socializing is a huge motivator for middle school kids. If Josie the cool girl says she likes Shakespeare, others are more likely to follow. ![]() How to deal with it: See if you can make this quality work for you: Find the most confident kids in class, the ones everyone looks up to, and try to get them to take on a new project or help you lead the charge toward some endeavor you want everyone else on board for. Or refusing your offer of a chocolate milk, even though they love chocolate milk, because someone else is around who recently declared all chocolate milk to be babyish. This means they will sometimes do things that make no sense, like not turning in an assignment you know they worked hard on, because they just found out they will have to read it out loud in front of the class. They care more about the opinions of their peers than pretty much anything else. If you recently started teaching middle school, or you have a child this age, you’ve probably discovered these things, too: 1. I figured out how to make the most of their special qualities. And over those years, I became kind of an expert on the idiosyncrasies of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. So I took it, planning to move up as soon possible. When I got my teaching degree, I was set on teaching high school English, but the only open position I found was in a middle school. ![]() Sponsored by mysimpleshow and Screencast-O-Matic ![]()
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