Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and author of The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web 2ND EDITION (Foreword by Dr. Harry Wong author of The First Days Of School) presents The Busy Educator's Monthly Five -- five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know. Sign up for his monthly free Busy Educator's Newsletter at: http://www.glavac.com

Here are five sites for teachers of grades 7-8:

MiddleSchool
http://www.middleschool.com

Great resource sections here for teachers and administrators. The Student Behavior Lab provides very comprehensive research, information, programs, and interventions to help you deal with behavior and help make your school a productive learning environment. Well written and useful articles for administrators on dealing with low staff morale and job satisfaction and how to turn it around. There are also links to subject resources and to other middle school resources.

MiddleWeb
http://www.middleweb.com

Everything you wanted to know about Middle School and more is here on this award winning website. Catch up on the news about middle grades, student and teacher successes, standard based reform. Find curriculum resources including teaching strategies. Read about middle schools that are raising student achievement. If you teach Middle School, this is the place to go.

Midlink Magazine
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink

National Technology Teacher of the Year Caroline McCullen, has developed MidLink Magazine to support educators all over the world as they inspire their students ages 8-18 to write and publish their work.

Since 1994, MidLink Magazine, known as "the Digital Magazine for Kids, by Kids," has been an award-winning online magazine or "zine". The mission of MidLink Magazine is to highlight exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.

Millard Central Middle School
http://www.esu3.org/web/mcms.html

The Millard Central Middle School in Omaha, Nebraska, USA website provides students and teachers easy access to high quality, safe resources appropriate to Middle School curriculum. Special features include search tools, curriculum links, current events resources, and curriculum pathfinders, which are designed to supplement specific units of study. Many of the school web pages have been developed by students.

Multimedia Applications on a Shoe-String Budget
http://library.thinkquest.org/50001

Here is a well thought out, well planned and well designed site to show Middle School teachers with limited resources how to teach multimedia applications and technology skills to Middle School students while also integrating these tools into classroom curricula. The resources here are great. There are sections on Technology Lesson Plan Format, Steps for Integrating Multimedia into Classroom Instruction, Units to Teach Technology Skills, Units to Reinforce Technology and Core Content Skills, Lesson Plans/Units by Curriculum Areas and Teacher Resources. If you’re teaching technology skills, this is for you.

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