Middle School Education Books

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1. Athletics Challenges: A resource pack for teaching athletics 2nd Edition

   By Kevin Morgan

   "Without hesitation I can state that this is the best received resource material in our programme and our physical education students enthuse about their capacity to take the ideas from the resource and transfer them into successful and effective physical education lessons during their school based...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-58442-5 | Pack (Routledge)

2. Instructional Strategies for Middle and Secondary Social Studies: Methods, Assessment, and Classroom Management

   By Bruce E. Larson, Timothy A. Keiper

   Written explicitly for pre-service social studies teachers, this exciting methods-based text integrates an in-depth look at seven distinct teaching strategies with appropriate management and assessment techniques. Written by veteran teacher educators Bruce E. Larson and Timothy A. Keiper,...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-87706-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition

   By Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Susan Hynds, Jeffrey Wilhelm

   Designed to introduce prospective English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms, this popular textbook explores a variety of innovative approaches that incorporate reading, writing, drama, talk, and media production. Each chapter is organized around...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-87516-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Social Studies as New Literacies in a Global Society: Relational Cosmopolitanism in the Classroom

   By Mark Baildon, James S. Damico

   This book reconceptualizes social studies teaching and learning in ways that will help prepare students to live in "new times" – prepared for new forms of labor in the post-industrial economy, equipped to handle new and emerging technologies and function in the new media age, and prepared to...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-87367-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Enhancing Student Learning in Middle School

   By Martha Casas

   A comprehensive introduction to middle school teaching, this textbook focuses explicitly on instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability and standardized testing. The author, an experienced middle school...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-80177-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Learning to Teach in the Primary School, 2nd Edition

   Edited by James Arthur, Teresa Cremin

   How can you become an effective primary school teacher? What do you need to be able to do? What do you need to know? Flexible, effective and creative primary school teachers require subject knowledge, an understanding of their pupils and how they learn, a range of strategies for managing...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-48790-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Educational Transitions: Moving Stories from Around the World

   Edited by Divya Jindal-Snape

   Despite variations of educational systems, when transitions in education occur, the pedagogical challenges that teachers and pupils undergo are quite similar across the globe. Transitions are phases in which pupils, peer groups and teachers have to renegotiate and rebuild their learning environment...

   December 2009 | 978-0-415-80591-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   The Teaching of Science in Primary Schools, 5th Edition

   By Wynne Harlen OBE, Anne Qualter

   The fifth edition of this bestselling textbook provides an up-to-date discussion of the many aspects of teaching primary science, maintaining its strong focus on constructivist learning and the role of social interaction in learning. With emphasis on the child-centred approach, the book also...

   March 2009 | 978-0-415-46527-4 | Paperback (David Fulton Publishers)
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   The New Handbook of Administrative Supervision in Counseling

   By Patricia G. Henderson

   Sponsored by the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision. To deliver excellent, culturally responsive services to clients, a successful administrative supervisor must provide leadership to professional counselors, manage counseling services, and work effectively within their agency....

   2008 | 978-0-415-99584-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Young at Art: Classroom Playbuilding in Practice

    By Christine Hatton, Sarah Lovesy

    Young at Art is a practical guide to playbuilding for teachers working with students at an upper primary and secondary level. Focusing on an area often neglected in traditional drama text books, the book covers the process of devising drama, and the teacher’s role in facilitating students to...

    2008 | 978-0-415-45478-0 | Paperback (Routledge)