The field of education today is continually changing. Portfolio assessment and integrated curriculums are emerging. The use of technology in the classroom is growing. And the multicultural nature of the classroom is greater, too. Today's middle grades teachers must stay abreast of all these topics, and more, so they can be the most effective and innovative educators. This book reflects the changes that have occurred in middle level education in the past several years. With a strong research base, this book helps readers to link their knowledge of young adolescents with their understanding of the curriculum and sound institutional practices. The authors include descriptions of middle grades classrooms and examples of dialogues between teachers and young adolescents, both collected from their visits to real middle grades schools. Middle grades teachers and educational administrators.

Product Description: A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. This book provides a powerful and clear picture of some of the outstanding programs designed and implemented in the United States to provide young adolescents with rich, meaningful, and powerful learning activities with community service...read more

Product Description: George Washington Lambert (1873-1956) was one of Australia's most brilliant, witty, and influental artists, "the Australian Sargent," according to Barry Humphries. This comprehensive book presents the diverse range of Lambert's work from Australian bush subjects to Edwardian portraits and figure groups, from sparkling oil sketches to major battle paintings and large sculpture...read more

Presents a collection of stories and anecdotes along with activities and lesson plans for the middle school classroom.

Product Description: A supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate General Elementary Methods, General Middle School Methods, and Interdisciplinary Instruction courses. In keeping with the renewed interest in interdisciplinary teaching, this practical text provides teacher candidates with a strong foundational knowledge of the field, coupled with a wealth of practical suggestions on how to plan and implement interdisciplinary teaching across the curriculum with all learners...read more

Product Description: The field of education today is continually changing. Portfolio assessment and integrated curriculums are emerging. The use of technology in the classroom is growing. And the multicultural nature of the classroom is greater, too...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Containing real stories and practical suggestions, this work searches for a curriculum that is at once inclusive, democratic and empowering for teachers, students and parents. Based on their one-year curricular experiment called the "McHome Team", the authors use their experience guiding a middle-school class to co-create their own curriculum, to demonstrate for all what it takes to make integrating a curriculum work...read more

Product Description: Young adult literature provides a mirror in which adolescents can observe themselves and their world with an ease and security that other kinds of texts fail to provide. It is a logical starting point for planning middle school learning experiences across the curriculum, but one that, up until now, has never fully been explored...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The middle grades are an especially significant era in the education of youth. Emerging adolescents become increasingly curious about the surrounding world - becoming aware of new issues, looking at familiar things differently and expanding their ideas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Messick, Rosemary G., Reynolds, Karen E. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Zevin, Dale