"My 7th Graders usually score lowest on cause and effect, context clues and sequencing."

"Students should be able to identify characteristics common to various types of literature as well as be able to recognize each genre's unique characteristics."

"I like for my students to apply strategies commonly used by "active readers" thereby increasing comprehension.

"Students need to understand that writing is a process, recognizing all the steps in that process as equally important to written expression."

"Anything dealing with comprehension, problem-solution writing or evaluative writing..."

"Higher order thinking skills"

"Building their self-confidence and promoting a positive self-esteem as writers and readers."

"Students have difficulty with evaluating, analyzing and critical thinking."

"They canÕt seem to make connections between pieces of literature, etc."

"We need to know how to schedule/plan for technology and the use of the Internet when we have only 70 minutes in a class period and 30 kids!"

"Questions I want my students to be able to answer...."

Can I think logically through a problem and arrive at a solution?

How do I get started in the problem solving practice?

Can I draw a picture that will help me understand the problem?

Does my answer really make sense?

Do I understand the concepts of integers?

Can I work with integers? (+, -, *, /)

How do I solve an equation?

Do I understand the concepts of fractions, and can I work with them?

"The main focus is 3-d Geometry, surface area and linear equations. (slope, intercept)"

"Teachers would like to have email updates announcing new sections appearing on the Web site."

"We need to relate everything in all our courses to their adolescent lives."

"Incorporate games that help kids work with scientific notation, properties for addition, & multiplication."

"Students need hands-on experimentation with statistics!"

"It is most difficult for kids to understand and solve word problems."

"My students almost always score low on word problems and abstract operations."

"They need to take away good basic skills and have strategies for problem-solving. They need to develop a liking for math."

"They seem to profit from games requiring math skills--scientific notation, properties for addition, multiplication, hands-on experimenting with statistics..."

"Always provide different ways to present the same skill."

"It is important for kids to try or make attempts to solve math problems."

"It is most difficult for kids to understand and solve word problems."

“My students almost always score low on word problems and abstract operations.”

"Measurement is our lowest score every year! We would like to see more interactive technologies that provide immediate feedback and problems grouped by objective."

"Students need much help with measurement, integers and decimals."

"Thinking skills and multi-step problem solving"

"Upon completion of my middle school science course, students should have a working knowledge of science processing skills. The following are skills that should be reinforced at every grade level."

Measuring (metric)

Using the triple beam balance to calculate mass

Density: D=Mass divided by volume

Volume of an object

Displacement

Predicting

Charts and graphs (recording data)

Analyzing data

Inferring

"We cover the following units in 7th Grade. It would be wonderful to have activities that incorporate the processing skills."

Matter

Weather

Cells

Human Body

Heredity

Genetics."

"We need to provide simple activities to help students understand DNA."

"It is so difficult for kids to grasp abstracts."

"Always score low on my tests with cause and effect."

"Thinking skills-most difficult!"

"Genetics!!"

"Make sure students know how they can use this information in every day life."

"Most difficult: Understanding what they read in Science class and being able to think critically"

"7th graders need to have a knowledge of chemistry and how to do lab."

"The most difficult topics for my students are measuring in cm and mm."

"The most important thing for my students to take away from class is the fact that I am truly interested in their learning and that I care about them."

"The most difficult for students to grasp is 1) scientific principles and critical thinking problems 2) graphing. "

"They consistently score low on word problems and graphing."

"We need practical labs with worksheets to go along with them designed for the 7th grade science curriculum."

"Sixth- and seventh-grade teachers, because of their world wide focus, stress differences in culture.

"Students need to understand how all things are connected (people and cultures)."

"It is so difficult for students to grasp politics and economic issues (like inflation) and other abstract concepts."

"Need to reinforce reading comprehension."

"Teachers need to provide more 'economic' activities.

"Students need to build their understanding of underprivileged people."

"Work on concepts regarding a theme like social justice and build their knowledge of background information surrounding events."

"Writing organization."

"I would hope that my students will learn to value and respect diversity."

"The hardest thing is to get students to move beyond the notion that Social Studies is boring."

"Reading comprehension is a real problem."