MTEL Middle School Humanities (76) case studies
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Middle School Humanities (76) is a Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure (MTEL) subject test for candidates preparing to teach humanities at the middle school level. It assesses the literature, language, history, geography, government, and economics knowledge that middle school humanities teaching demands, together with the ability to integrate that knowledge in written analysis. The MTEL Middle School Humanities (76) case studies are 5 cases and about 3,262 words.
1The Contested Speech in Seventh-Grade Argument Analysis
Alvarez teaches seventh-grade English at a K–8 school with 28 students in her second-period class: 9 multilingual learners (5 Spanish, 2 Haitian Creole, 1 Vietnamese, 1 Arabic), 4 students with IEPs for reading, and a reading range from grade 3 to grade 10. The district unit requires students to analyze how an author develops a claim.
632 words, about 3 min2Corroborating Conflicting Sources on a Freedmen’s Bureau School
Okafor teaches eighth-grade U.S. history with 26 students, including 6 with IEPs for decoding and several who recently scored below proficient on sourcing questions.
678 words, about 3 min3Choosing a Map Projection for Sixth-Grade Area and Climate
Chen teaches sixth-grade world geography to 30 students in 45-minute periods. Her team plans a unit on continents, climate, and population, and a colleague wants to use the large Mercator wall map because it is already mounted in the room.
652 words, about 3 min4The $1.2 Million Mock City Council Budget
Patel teaches an integrated eighth-grade civics and economics class with 32 students. For four 50-minute periods, the class runs a mock city council that must allocate a 1.2 million discretionary fund.
649 words, about 3 min5The Morrow River Dam Removal Recommendation
A seventh-grade team teaches 60 students in five 90-minute blocks for an integrated humanities unit on the fictional Morrow River dam. The town council is considering removal.
651 words, about 3 min