| Description |
xii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. You Want to Be a What? -- Who Are Young Adolescents? -- Becoming a Middle Level Teacher -- 2. Understanding the Young Adolescent -- Physical Development -- Intellectual Development -- Social Development -- Emotional Development -- Concluding Reflections -- 3. Influences from the Past and the Present -- A Typical Day -- Emulating the Factory -- The First Junior High Schools -- The Promise of a New Design -- Support for Genuine Middle Schools -- 4. Creating a Safe Haven for Learning -- Middle Schools and Student Stress -- Establishing a Caring Environment -- Encouraging Risk Taking -- Recognizing and Responding to Diverse Learners -- Sharing Decision Making -- Creating Collaborative - Not Competitive - Learning Environments -- 5. Student Designed Curriculum -- What Is Curriculum? -- Beliefs About Middle Level Curriculum -- Basic Approaches to Curriculum Organization -- Curriculum Integration Model: A Different Way of Thinking About the Curriculum -- Curriculum Integration in the Middle School Classroom -- Concluding Reflections -- 6. Facilitating Meaningful Learning -- How Learning Occurs -- The Teacher's Role -- Concluding Reflections -- 7. Assessment the Promotes Active Learning -- What Is Assessment? -- Alternative Assessment -- Authentic Assessment Leads to Meaningful Learning -- Performance Assessment -- Portfolio Assessment -- Additional Assessment Strategies -- Support for Alternative Assessment -- 8. Altering School Structures -- Teaming - The Heart and Soul of the Middle School Concept -- Developing Advisory Programs -- Flexible Scheduling -- Concluding Reflections -- 9. Being an Advocate for Young Adolescents -- Support for Middle Level Reforms -- Supporting Young Adolescents -- The True Middle School |
| Summary |
Knowles and Brown present background information on adolescent development, a concise review of the history of the middle-level movement, and a model of middle-level reform that changes the way teachers view curriculum, instruction, and assessment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-164) and index |
| Subject |
Middle school education -- United States.
|
|
Adolescence -- United States.
|
| Author |
Bird, Lois Bridges.
|
|
Brown, Dave F.
|
| LC no. |
00039657 |
| ISBN |
0325002665 alkaline paper |
|
