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This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.
Setting the Stage: An Introduction to Middle Level Education; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
Part I. Current Research on the Status of the Middle School Concept: A Critical Look at Middle Level Reform from the 1980s to the Present.
Chapter 1. Advisor-Advisee Programs: Community Building in a State of Affective Disorder?; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. and Kathleen M. Brown.
Chapter 2. Get the Big Picture of Teaming: Eliminate Isolation and Competition Through Focus, Leadership and Professional Development; Kathleen M. Brown.
Chapter 3. The Effective Middle School Teacher: Inwardly Integrated, Outwardly Connected; Kathleen Roney.
Chapter 4. Middle School Curriculum; Richard Powell and Laura Van Zandt Allen.
Chapter 5. Flexible Scheduling and Young Adolescent Development: A Perfect Match; Dave F. Brown.
Part II. Moving Middle Level Reform into the 21st Century.
Chapter 6. New Teacher Staffing and Comprehensive Middle School Reform: Philadelphia's Experience; Elizabeth Useem.
Chapter 7. Rethinking Middle Level Teacher Education for the 21st Century: A Systems Approach; Juan Necochea, Laura P. Stowell, Janet E. McDaniel, Maureen Lorimer, and Charlotte Kritzer.
Chapter 8. Middle Level Leadership for the 21st Century: Principals' Views on Essential Skills and Knowledge; Implications for Successful Preparation; Vincent A. Anfara, Jr., Kathleen M. Brown, Rebecca Mills, Kimberly Hartman, and Robert J. Mahar.
Chapter 9. Point to Point: Turning Points to Turning Points 2000; Gayle A. Davis.
About the Authors.
Index.