Teaming
Dodge City Middle School is based upon a team approach where teams of teachers and students work together to achieve academic and personal goals. Teachers share responsibility for the same students and solve problems together, often before they reach the crisis stage. This community of learning nurtures bonds between teacher and student that are the building blocks of the education of the young adolescent.
Teaming provides an environment conducive to learning by reducing the stress of anonymity and isolation of students. Common planning by teachers of different subjects enables students to sense consistent expectations for them and to strive to meet clearly understood standards of achievement. Teaming creates the kind of learning environment that encourages students to grapple with ideas that may span several disciplines and to create solutions to problems that reflect understanding, not memorization.
Teaming provides an environment conducive to learning by reducing the stress of anonymity and isolation of students. Common planning by teachers of different subjects enables students to sense consistent expectations for them and to strive to meet clearly understood standards of achievement. Teaming creates the kind of learning environment that encourages students to grapple with ideas that may span several disciplines and to create solutions to problems that reflect understanding, not memorization.