Teaching Middle Years: Rethinking Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment

by Donna Pendergast (Editor), Nan Bahr, Robert Hardingham

Teaching Middle Years offers a systematic overview of the philosophy, principles, and issues in middle schooling. It includes contributions from academics and school-based practitioners on intellectual and emotional development in early adolescence, pedagogy, curriculum, and assessment of middle years students. This second edition is fully revised to reflect the latest research findings. It includes new chapters on students with diverse needs, school partnerships with families and community, and effective team teaching. Also new to this edition is a chapter that brings middle schooling concepts to life by providing real examples of reform in action. Written for teachers, student teachers, education leaders, and policy makers, Teaching Middle Years is an essential resource for anyone involved in educating young adolescents.

Genres: Education

430 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2010

Reviews

[Michelle Silvestri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great aid to pre-service teachers, new teachers, or even long serving veterans. It contains twenty chapters, discussing a the wide field of Middles schools, the students who attend them and the people who operate them.

I have personally found it insightful and a great help in my preparation for my future as a middle and secondary educator. It is great to have an Australian text based on Australian schools, rather then adapting and relating from American or United Kingdom texts.