[PDF] Transforming Middle Schools eBook

Author : Center for Collaborative Education
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2001
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Turning Points is a New American Schools design for comprehensive middle school reform coordinated by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE) in Boston Massachusetts. It focuses on creating a professional collaborative culture and using data-based inquiry to improve teaching and learning for all students. Turning Points seeks to create high-performing schools, especially those serving high percentages of low-income students and students of color. The design is driven by one overarching goal--ensuring success for every student. Based on twelve years of research and practice in urban, rural, and suburban middle schools across the country, Turning Points helps middle schools to strengthen their academic core and to create caring and challenging learning communities that meet the needs of young adolescents. The design grew out of the seminal "Turning Points" report issued by the Carnegie Corporation in 1989, which concentrated on the considerable risks adolescents face as they reach the "turning point" between childhood and adulthood.

Author : Anthony Muhammad
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1934009997

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Busy administrators will appreciate this quick read packed with immediate, accessible strategies. This book provides the framework for understanding dynamic relationships within a school culture and ensuring a positive environment that supports the changes necessary to improve learning for all students. The author explores many aspects of human behavior, social conditions, and history to reveal best practices for building healthy school cultures.

Author : Holly Hansen-Thomas
Publisher : Tesol Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 2018-10-05
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ISBN : 9781942799498

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Practice has long been informed by research, but what happens when practitioners and researchers actually work together in a middle school classroom setting? Discover ways in which teachers interpret and innovate research findings into actual classroom practice to create positive classroom transformations.

Author : Thomas S. Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 30,65 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136054782

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Many contemporary American middle schools are stuck in a state of "arrested development," failing to implement the original concept of middle schools to a varying, though equally corruptive degrees. The individual chapters of the book outline in detail how to counter this dangerous trend, offering guidance to those who seek immediate, significant, internal reforms before we lose the unique value of middle schools for our nation's adolescents.

Author : Ben Lummis
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 2001
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The educational needs of middle school students are truly unique. In no other period of PreK-12 education can one find such a wide range of physical, social, and cognitive development among students. For students, the middle school years can be a time of both great vulnerability and great responsiveness to change. These years are highly formative for behavior patterns in education and health that have enduring, lifelong significance. The challenge for middle schools is to help provide the building blocks of adolescent development and preparation for adult life. Developing curriculum that meets the needs of middle school students is a complex process that rarely follows a prescribed pattern. Teachers may come up with ideas for projects, themes, and activities on the way to work, in the middle of class, during a conversation with a colleague, and even in the shower. Some teachers begin with a theme while others start with habits of mind they want their students to acquire. Some teachers use state frameworks and standards as a starting point to curriculum development. Still others build a unit from an idea for a project. The purpose of this guide is not to dictate how teachers should develop their curriculum, but rather to propose that certain basic principles, supported by Turning Points work in schools, underpin curriculum development. The purpose of this guide is to communicate the Turning Points approach to curriculum development, teaching, and assessment. It offers specific tools which teachers and schools can use as they design curriculum, develop assessment tasks, and create the classroom practices that will lead to significant student learning and growth.

Author : Mary Gallagher-Polite
Publisher : Corwin
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 1996-04-24
Category : Education
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Turning Points in Middle Schools follows a fictional school (Dewey Middle School) in its transition from a traditional junior high to a middle school. A series of true-to-life stories depicts the fundamental differences between the two kinds of schools and how change comes about. The authors analyze and explore the stresses both staff and students will encounter during the complex transition process. They present a cohesive, realistic portrayal of the successes and the inevitable disappointments involved and offer tips on how to help everyone better handle these changes. You'll examine these key issues: developmental characteristics of early adolescents; components of a successful middles school; curricular and instructional practices in middle schools; personal and group dynamics - building relationships; and the change process itself.

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Page : pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 200?
Category : Educational change
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Provides information on Turning Points, an education reform model that focuses on transforming middle schools. Includes introduction to the Turning Points model and its regional centers, publication and online resources, event calendar, success stories, and more.

Author : Paul DeHart Hurd
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807739228

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In this penetrating volume, Paul DeHart Hurd combines more than half a century of experience and current scholarship with his vision for improving the middle school science curriculum. While others have failed to center adolescents in science curricula, Hurd recognizes the biological, social, and emotional needs of this population. Looking toward the future to properly educate students now, Hurd’s curriculum presents today’s youth with the culture of science and technology that has import in their lives. The end result? An important contribution to the study of curriculum and a substantial pedagogical tool from an eminent thinker.