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Download full textClose, Elizabeth, Ed.; Ramsey, Katherine D., Ed. – 2000
Offering 16 essays by presenters at the first Middle School Mosaic (held in Detroit, Michigan, in 1997), this book connects the themes of literacy, reflective practice, and the special characteristics of middle level teaching. In the first section, Literature and Literacy at the Middle Level, the authors examine questions of literacy by looking at…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Reading Difficulties, Reading Instruction, Reflective Teaching
Lounsbury, John H., Ed. – 1992
Interdisciplinary education has been considered a key element of middle level education since the 1960s. Interdisciplinary teaching teams and multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary units of study have been frequently found in middle level schools since then. Although changes have been incorporated to support it, actual implementation of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Fused Curriculum
Siu-Runyan, Yvonne, Ed.; Faircloth, Victoria, Ed. – 1995
Using reading and writing to learn, inquire, construct, and examine ideas across the curriculum is central to an integrated curriculum. Too many middle school students do not view writing as a communication process that permeates the curriculum, nor reading as an active, constructivist process whereby various perspectives can be examined and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescent Development, Curriculum Development, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
