What Underachieving
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
Middle School Students
Believe Motivates them to Learn
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Middle School Students Believe Motivates them to Learn |
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Chapter 1: The Challenge to Educate Everyone Chapter 2: A Review of Literature Chapter 3: Methods Chapter 4: The Results Chapter 5: Discussion |
Michael R. Muir was born in East Orange, New Jersey, on January 10, 1963. He was raised in rural, northern New Jersey, the Chicago suburbs, and rural western Maine. He graduated from Mt. Blue High School in Farmington, Maine, in 1981. He attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and graduated in 1985 with a B.A. and a major in Mathematics, an independent major in Computer Studies, and having completed the Education Program (Maine teaching certificate). Mike taught math at Winslow High School and worked on his Masters of Education degree from Lesley College. He graduated in 1989 with an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in educational technology. Mike has worked for the Maine Computer Consortium as an educational technologist, for Skowhegan Area Middle School as the Computer Integration Specialist, for Skowhegan Area High School as a math teacher, and for the University of Maine at Farmington as a Practicum Supervisor, Student Teacher Supervisor, and as a professor of Middle Level Education and Educational Technology. He has participated on the writing teams of two curriculum projects for LEGO Dacta, the education division of LEGO Toys, has written a book on artificial intelligence, two books on integrating hypermedia tools into the curriculum, and numerous articles on educational computing and on middle level education. Mike is the director of the Maine Center for Meaningful, Engaged Learning, a venture to engage undergraduate students in creating web-based and multimedia products of use to educators and educational scholars. Their projects include the web site for the Maine Association for Middle Level Education and republishing The Story of the Eight Year Study on the web. In 1994, Mike designed an independent doctoral program in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on Middle Level Education and learning theory. Mike is a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Education from the University of Maine in May, 2000. |
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