The Beginning

For some time, we have kicked around the idea of sharing the lessons we have learned in the middle school classroom.  Middle school students are a unique set of characters.  They are past the age of being teacher-pleasers, like they were in elementary, and not yet to the maturity level of high school students.  They are, essentially, somewhere in the middle.  Therefore, the middle school teacher is someone who walks the line between the “come here and give me a hug’ elementary teacher and the “you are old enough to get this” high school teacher.  And trust me, some days we have to be more of one than the other.  (Although, we will openly admit that we could never be the quintessential hugging elementary teachers.  What can we say? We value personal space.)  Most importantly, we believe that a middle school teacher, actually any teacher, has to have a sense of humor.  Otherwise, the daily grind of dealing with pre-pubescent children would eat you alive.  Since we are middle school teachers, and therefore, a little bit crazy, we are starting this blog hoping that we will be able to reach out to other crazy middle school teachers, share what we have learned along the way, and maybe bring some laughter to the middle…