Reinventing the Middle SchoolThomas S. Dickinson Many contemporary American middle schools are stuck in a state of "arrested development," failing to implement the original concept of middle schools to a varying, though equally corruptive degrees. The individual chapters of the book outline in detail how to counter this dangerous trend, offering guidance to those who seek immediate, significant, internal reforms before we lose the unique value of middle schools for our nation's adolescents. |
Contents
A Proposal to Counter | 3 |
The School and the Child and the Child in the School | 21 |
Transformation Points A Reinvention Paradigm | 39 |
The Arc of Equity in Reinvented Middle Schools 56 | 56 |
Creating | 79 |
Teachers Who Create | 96 |
How Middle Level Students | 117 |
HighQuality Learning Opportunities in High Poverty | 155 |
The Role of Technology for Learning | 218 |
Transformation and Context in Middle Grades Reform | 249 |
Community and | 269 |
Engineering Success through Purposeful Articulation | 288 |
Reinventing Middle Level Teacher Preparation via Professional | 302 |
Reflections | 321 |
Author Biographies | 329 |
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Transforming Organizational Structures for Young Adolescents | 176 |
Our Turn? Teaming and the Professional Development of Teachers | 201 |
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References to this book
Teaching Middle Years: Rethinking curriculum, pedagogy and assessment Donna Pendergast,Nan Bahr No preview available - 2005 |
The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education, Volume 1 Vincent A. Anfara No preview available - 2001 |