Teaming

Abstract Chapter eleven in Meet Me In The Middle is about how teams work well in a middle school. To be a middle school teacher, you have to understand that you are going to have to be able to work with other. We also need to understand that the subject we teach is not more important than other subjects, but it should work well and integrate those other subjects. This is why a teacher who is in a middle school needs to be very flexible. This chapter also tells us that everyone, not just the teachers, are part of the team. The students also are part of the middle school team and we tend to work around their academic schedules in order to make the middle school experience as god as possible.

Reflection I really liked this chapter because the teaming in the middle school is part of the reason I really want to teach middle grades education. I loved that the teams consider when they schedule assignments so the students do not feel overwhelmed because they have three projects due at once. I also loved that the team would meet at least once a week and not only talk about what they were doing in the classroom, but also how individual students were doing. Some teachers would know certain students better than others and it was really important that they collaborated.