Meet Me in the Middle: Chapter 6

Chapter 6: This chapter focuses on three major parts; holding students accounatble, holding ourselves responsible and responding to the standards. There are many suggestions in the book of ways to have students be accountable for their work. One way to help students take pride and interest in their work is to display it in the school. Holding our selves accountable is probably the harder of the two. Usually when things go wrong teachers blame everything else when in reality we need to take a step back and examine our lessons, units, skills, activities, etc. It is also important that, even if you personally do not agree with the standards, we as teachers try our best to work positively with them. This will help us reach common goals nation wide and eventually world wide.