A Visit to My Junior High School 50 Years Later

Autor/in	Swaim, John H.
Titel	A Visit to My Junior High School 50 Years Later
Quelle	In: Middle School Journal (J3), 40 (2009) 5, S.46-51 (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0094-0771
Schlagwörter	Middle Schools; Junior High Schools; Meetings; Middle School Students; Middle School Teachers; Educational Practices; Academic Achievement; Evaluation; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Sekundarstufe I; Meeting; Tagung; Middle schools; Student; Students; Schüler; Schülerin; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Bildungspraxis; Schulleistung; Evaluierung
Abstract	It is not unusual for people to attend their high school or college class reunions, but who would want to go back and visit their old junior high? After all, this is a time that most people overlook or want to forget. However, it was a meaningful time for this author, and laid the foundation for whom he had become. It was during his junior high years that he decided to follow in his parents' footsteps and make teaching his career, later becoming a teacher, a principal, and a professor of teacher education. It was also during his junior high years that he first began to participate in organized sports, which he pursued in high school, college, and during his first years as a teacher and coach. Most important, he had his first date in junior high with the girl he eventually married, who became the mother of their two children and with whom he has spent the last 40 years of his life. In this article, the author recounts how returning to his old junior high was not only a stroll down memory lane but also a chance to reconnect with the source of his beliefs about middle school education. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10