Books, Nonfiction, Education, Middle Schools

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John A. Van de Walle, Lou Ann H. Lovin
Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Grades 5-8 (Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics Series)
by Allyn & Bacon (Paperback)

/*0205417973, Van de Walle, Teaching Student-CEntered Math, 5-8, 1e*/The book includes popular topics and features from the author's market-leading textbook, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, and brand-new material specially designed for teachers in the classroom. This volume is tailored to the specific needs of grades 5 to 8, allowing teachers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in their classes. The student-centered approach will result in successful math students, making this book indispensable for math teachers!

Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas
The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach, and Support
by Heinemann (Paperback)

 Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas understand that a high-quality curriculum is the important first step toward good teaching and successful learning. Good curriculum comes from knowing what students can do, can almost do, and need to learn how to do as readers, writers, and language users. In The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K - 8 they combine everything they have learned about literacy development to create a powerful tool that enables curriculum coordinators and literacy specialists to observe teaching and learning, to plan responsive instruction, and to ensure consistency across buildings, grades, or classrooms. Across the GradesThe Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K - 8 places the behaviors and understandings children can be expected to demonstrate on continua that reflect seven critical instructional contexts:  interactive read-aloud and literature discussion shared and performance reading writing about reading writing oral, visual, and technological ...

This We Believe: Successful Schools for Young Adolescents : A Position Paper of the National Middle School Association
by National Middle School Association (Paperback)

Peter H. Martorella, Candy Beal, Cheryl Mason Bolick
Teaching Social Studies in Middle and Secondary Schools (4th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Hardcover)

This readable, accessible book offers prospective teachers a comprehensive introduction to teaching social studies to middle and secondary school students. With the purpose of social studies being the development of reflective, competent, concerned citizens, the book first examines the origins and evolution of social studies and citizenship education across the United States. Following this, targeted chapters address the art, science, and craft of social studies teaching as a means for engaging learners in knowledge construction. In the final section, the authors look at ways to improve social studies instruction through the incorporation of emerging technology into the social studies curriculum. For middle and secondary school social studies teachers.

Lee Manning, Katherine T. Bucher
Teaching in the Middle School (Book alone) (3rd Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

This text for middle school classroom teachers provides a solid core of essential knowledge about middle schools. Balancing the practical and the theoretical, it has a strong research base, as well as a focus on teaching methods, strategies, materials, resources, and technology that are linked to the standards of the National Middle School Association. The author's objectives are to tell readers about middle schools today, describe adolescents and their developmental period, identify essential middle school concepts that have potential for their age group and educational experiences that are developmentally responsive for young adolescents.

Joan D'Amico, Kate Gallaway
Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom (Differentiated Instruction for Middle School Teachers)
by Wiley (Paperback)

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher is a practical and easy-to-use resource for teaching a standards-based math curriculum to all learners. It gives you effective ways to present math concepts, shows how to provide opportunities for guided practice, and offers ideas for modifying the material to provide access to the same content standard for all students in the inclusive classroom. This book also contains key strategies for collaborating with other professionals, suggestions for involving the students' families by tying math concepts to students' everyday lives, and valuable assessment strategies. The lessons in the book cover middle school math topics correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Math, ranging from numbers and operations to problem solving and reasoning. Each lesson includes: Instructions for presenting the lesson to the whole class Worksheets designed to help review and reinforce ...

Jennifer E. Obidah, Karen Manheim Teel
Because of the Kids : Facing Racial and Cultural Differences in Schools (Practitioner Inquiry, 18)
by Teachers College Press (Hardcover)

This fascinating study presents the difficulties and importance of collaborations between teachers from different racial and cultural backgrounds, as well as keen insights into how race and culture evolve in teacher-student interactions. Of particular interest is an interview with the authors by Lisa Delpit and Dr. Delpit's analysis of their experience. Teachers and researchers will also find valuable practical advice about conducting cross-cultural collaboration and suggestions for persevering during difficult times.

Rhoda J. Maxwell, Mary Meiser, Mary Jordan Meiser
Teaching English in Middle and Secondary Schools
by Prentice Hall College Div (Paperback)

This book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date view of teaching secondary English based on sound research and classroom practice. The third edition reaffirms the value of a holistic, integrated approach to teaching English language arts. While separating the language arts into separate chapters, the strands are reconnected in every chapter. A separate chapter is devoted to grammar, giving this component focused attention. Materials and instructional strategies for students with increased diversity and needs are offered in greater detail. Problem-solving skills and reflective applications, integrated into chapters as simulations, are included to heighten the reflective skills of novice and experienced teachers. For English teachers at the middle and secondary grade levels.

Martha Combs
Readers and Writers in the Middle Grades (2nd Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

The second edition of this popular book for grades 4-8 again reflects the author's emphasis on teaching reading and writing from a literature-based perspective and engaging middle-grades learners in integrated literacy experiences. Coverage has been revised to meet the growing need to address early adolescents who still struggle with becoming proficient readers and writers. Taking a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to literacy development, Combs deftly balances ideas for using authentic children's literature with techniques for making the most of the basal approach—providing a rich mix of classroom-tested models and examples that will serve future teachers well in their first classrooms, and every classroom thereafter. For future and practice elementary school reading teachers.

Jon W. Wiles, Joseph Bondi, Michele T. Wiles
Essential Middle School, The (4th Edition)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

Written by experienced school educators, this book is focused on the curriculum and instruction aspects of middle grades education. Sound research-based strategies have made The Essential Middle School a must-have resource for in-service middle school teachers for years.  Now with even more applications in the planning and management sections, written by a practicing teacher, readers can easily see how research-based strategies can be applied in today's classrooms. Emphasis on new technologies and Internet resources are included in this new edition.  Inservice Middle School teachers and administrators.

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