1st Edition
Dialogues in Middle Level Education Research Volume 1 Insights from the AMLE New Directions 2020 Roundtable Discussions
INTRODUCTION
1. Engendering and Enriching Critical Conversations about Middle Level Education Research
David C. Virtue
PART I: Factors Affecting Middle Grades Mathematics Achievement
2. Middle Level Mathematics Achievement from Teacher and Student Perspectives: Reflections and New Directions in Middle Level Mathematics Research
Theresa A. Garfield and W. Sean Kearney
3. Student Readiness to Learn and Teacher Effectiveness: Two Key Factors in Middle Grades Mathematics Achievement
W. Sean Kearney and Theresa A. Garfield
4. Teaching Mathematics in the Middle Grades: Connecting Seminal Education Philosophies to Current Best Practices
Holly H. Pinter
PART II: Perspectives on Personalized Learning
5. Critical Reflections on Personalized Project-Based Learning
Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Steven Netcoh, Kathleen Brinegar, and Jeanie Phillips
6. Mixed Feelings about Choice: Exploring Variation in Middle School Student Experiences with Making Choices in a Personalized Learning Project
Jessica DeMink-Carthew and Steven Netcoh
7. Hands-Joined Learning as a Framework for Personalizing Project-Based Learning in a Middle Grades Classroom: An Exploratory Study
Jessica DeMink-Carthew and Mark W. Olofson
8. A Response to Critical Reflections on Personalized Project-Based Learning
John Downes and James Nagle
PART III: Understanding Teacher Collaboration in Diverse Classrooms
9. "All the Way Better": Teacher Collaboration and ESL Students’ Participation
Amanda Giles and Bedrettin Yazan
10. "You’re Not an Island": A Middle Grades Language Arts Teacher’s Changed Perceptions in ESL and Content Teachers’ Collaboration
Amanda Giles and Bedrettin Yazan
11. Insights from a Case Study on Teacher Collaboration: Response to Giles and Yazan
Bogum Yoon
PART IV: Exploring Social and Emotional Learning in the Middle Grades
12. Extending Research on SEL in the Middle Grades
David B. Strahan and Beth Poteat
13. Middle Level Students’ Perceptions of Their Social and Emotional Learning: An Exploratory Study
David B. Strahan and Beth Poteat
14. Researching Social and Emotional Learning in the Middle Grades: A Response to Strahan and Poteat
Katherine M. Main and Cheryl R. Ellerbrock
CONCLUSION
15. New Directions as Travel Itinerary
Matthew J. Moulton
Biography
David C. Virtue is Taft B. Botner Distinguished Professor of Middle Grades Education at Western Carolina University, USA.
