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My time spent in a sixth grade classroom taught me that every student is different, and I must find a way to diversify my teaching in order to best help each and every one of my students. I still need to learn how exactly to accomplish this in order to best educate and motivate students, though. I also need to learn how to avoid behavioral issues. I am most nervous about behavior management in my future classroom, so helpful ideas on this would be very beneficial.

My question is how do I teach skills like grammar and literature in middle grades? How do you further a student’s understanding of these concepts? These are things I want to know.

A goal for this semester in my methods course is to get better at creating lesson plans. I believe the more practice I can get at creating these plans the better I will be in the classroom. The other goal for this course is to learn how to teach grammar in a middle school classroom. My goal for my field experience is to learn classroom management skills since we have discussed a couple of strategies but not how to implement these strategies.

I want to know how to make each activity fun and kid friendly. I want to better understand how I should organize my lessons. I want to make sure I have an organized method to pre plan my lessons. I want help in making my classroom feel comfortable and safe for my students to express themselves.

I want to make a set of lesson plans that will be easily accessible during my student teaching. I also want as many resources and ideas for creative activities to do with my students as possible.

I would like to learn more about how to fairly grade students, knowing some students will be more advanced in their writing and reading skills.

I need to know how to deal with students when they do not understand my feedback. If they have questions, I should be able to answer them. Also I am not sure what to do when a student has a slower learning ability than someone else. How do I know how to grade theirs differently?

I want to learn more of the specifics, like good activities that can be used, how to write an effective lesson plan, and how certain concepts can be incorporated into the classroom without student interest.

I’d like to get specific ideas about what kind of activities should be done in my classroom, how to pace the content I teach, how to effectively collaborate with other teachers and teach from an interdisciplinary perspective, and how to write effective lesson plans.

I believe that I need to review many different language arts textbooks and find patterns and strategies. I have had to look through a few textbooks in the past for class projects, but have yet to really study one of them to prepare myself to teach all the material that it contains.

I would love to know how to choose the book list for my classroom. I’m curious as to if there is a certain criteria that must be followed and how teachers chose the books their students will read and study throughout the year.

I want to learn new and interesting methods, and I want to learn the best way to incorporate young adult literature into my classroom, and I want to know how to have a reader’s choice based classroom.