The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education
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- Description
- Contents
This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.
Setting the Stage: An Introduction to Middle Level Education; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
- Part I. Current Research on the Status of the Middle School Concept: A Critical Look at Middle Level Reform from the 1980s to the Present.
- Chapter 1. Advisor-Advisee Programs: Community Building in a State of Affective Disorder?; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. and Kathleen M. Brown.
- Chapter 2. Get the Big Picture of Teaming: Eliminate Isolation and Competition Through Focus, Leadership and Professional Development; Kathleen M. Brown.
- Chapter 3. The Effective Middle School Teacher: Inwardly Integrated, Outwardly Connected; Kathleen Roney.
- Chapter 4. Middle School Curriculum; Richard Powell and Laura Van Zandt Allen.
- Chapter 5. Flexible Scheduling and Young Adolescent Development: A Perfect Match; Dave F. Brown.
- Part II. Moving Middle Level Reform into the 21st Century.
- Chapter 6. New Teacher Staffing and Comprehensive Middle School Reform: Philadelphia's Experience; Elizabeth Useem.
- Chapter 7. Rethinking Middle Level Teacher Education for the 21st Century: A Systems Approach; Juan Necochea, Laura P. Stowell, Janet E. McDaniel, Maureen Lorimer, and Charlotte Kritzer.
- Chapter 8. Middle Level Leadership for the 21st Century: Principals' Views on Essential Skills and Knowledge; Implications for Successful Preparation; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr., Kathleen M. Brown, Rebecca Mills, Kimberly Hartman, and Robert J. Mahar.
- Chapter 9. Point to Point: Turning Points to Turning Points 2000; Gayle A. Davis.
- About the Authors.
- Index.