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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That's what has happened to us in our expeditionary school.

[b]Perhaps MS is a good place for students to start learning those skills, since it will be assumed they have them in HS, in college, and in life.[/quote][/b]

Just like you said, middle school is a good place to START learning research and critical thinking skills.
The problem is that students are not learning it. The teacher is assuming these are skills students will acquire on their own if they spend the entire language arts/socials studies timeslot day after day doing it. The emphasis is on the end product and the way it is supposed to look it. At this age, I strongly believe the emphasis should be more on the process than the product, so that they take the process and apply it to another activity.
I would not have been so disillusions and dismayed, had the teachers balanced grade level interesting activities with the complicated long-ranged expedition which is almost the same theme they did for over 5 months last school year -- only this year, they need to present it electronically as a class.[/quote]

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