Teaching In the Middle School

This text is instrumental in our learning. This text keeps us from getting "lost" in the adolescence wilderness as we hunt for developmental and culturally responsive ideas and methods of middle level teaching! We are able to stay on track and at the end of the trail find out how much readiness we have developed, collectively, to be developmentally and culturally responsive middle school educators. Thank you, Lee and Katherine, for a text that continues to make this course I teach rich in content, questions, ideas and learning. Dr. Dr. Maribeth Juraska, Aurora University

Teaching in the Middle School, Fourth Edition, is a must have for all pre-service teachers considering a career in middle school education. This brief text provides the practical strategies you will need to be successful in a middle grades classroom and the theory you need to know to support each practice.

Explore this text to learn about the following:

    Policies and practices in middle schools today

    Developmental trajectories for young adolescents

    Planning for educational experiences that are developmentally responsive for young adolescents

New to this edition:

•  Expanded coverage of important topics prepare you for teaching in todays schools include:
  • Information on diverse learners in the middle school
  • Educating for social justice
  • Culturally responsive educational experiences
  • Diagnostic assessments of young adolescents from culturally different backgrounds
  • The elemiddle school movement
  • The hidden curriculum
  • Backwards design of instruction or the understanding of design
• Updated Curriculum and Instruction coverage including information on unpacking standards, interdisciplinary teaching, multicultural curriculum framework, Project CRISS, and information literacy and technology.
• Theory into Practice and Diversity Perspectives features, revised to reflect the most current information and issues in the field.
• Updated website references, Keeping Current with Technology internet links, Suggested Readings, and References throughout the text.