Middle Grades Education (Hardcover)

Pat Williams-Boyd

ISBN 10: 1851095101 / ISBN 13: 9781851095100

Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Santa Barbara, 2003

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Hardcover. An expert guide to the development of the middle school model as the best educational environment designed to address students' developmental and social needs as well as educational needs.Middle Grades Education: A Reference Handbook explores the distinctive middle school approach to helping adolescents develop as human beings and citizens as well as students, with coverage that ranges from the conceptual foundations of the middle school model, to research-based best practices, to sample lesson plans and activities.Edited by Pat Williams-Boyd, with contributions from experienced, frontline educators, the book showcases a number of places where the ideal middle school has become reality, where individual talents are nurtured, families are involved, teachers serve as role models and advocates, and crucial health and developmental needs are met. Readers will experience classrooms where students dance their math, sing their science, and breathe the winds of history, and where the joy of learning is bounded only by the educator's imagination. An expert guide to the development of the middle school model as the best educational environment designed to address students' developmental and social needs as well as educational needs. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Middle Grades Education (Hardcover)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Santa Barbara
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1851095101
• ISBN 13: 9781851095100
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

An expert guide to the development of the middle school model as the best educational environment designed to address students' developmental and social needs as well as educational needs.

Middle Grades Education: A Reference Handbook explores the distinctive middle school approach to helping adolescents develop as human beings and citizens as well as students, with coverage that ranges from the conceptual foundations of the middle school model, to research-based best practices, to sample lesson plans and activities.

Edited by Pat Williams-Boyd, with contributions from experienced, frontline educators, the book showcases a number of places where the ideal middle school has become reality, where individual talents are nurtured, families are involved, teachers serve as role models and advocates, and crucial health and developmental needs are met. Readers will experience classrooms where students dance their math, sing their science, and breathe the winds of history, and where the joy of learning is bounded only by the educator's imagination.

Informazioni sugli autori

Pat Williams-Boyd is associate professor of education at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, and the director of Middle Vision: Center for Dynamic Middle Level Education. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Educational Leadership: A Reference Handbook.

Pat Williams-Boyd is associate professor of education at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, and the director of Middle Vision: Center for Dynamic Middle Level Education. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Educational Leadership: A Reference Handbook.