Best Practices for Middle School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Teachers Do

Best-selling author Randi Stone brings together a collection of best classroom practices by award-winning teachers from schools throughout the United States to inspire new and experienced middle school teachers with time-tested ideas.

Best Practices for Middle School Classrooms is packed with ready-to-go lessons and units written by teachers who have used these ideas successfully in their own classrooms. Each lesson or strategy includes recommended grade levels, clear objectives, a listing of relevant national or state standards, materials lists, and easy-to-follow directions and tips. Readers will find ideas for:

Managing effective classrooms, using technology, and assessing students
Teaching in science, mathematics, language arts, and social studies
Engaging students in music, art, and physical education

Learn how some of the best teachers in the nation reach their middle school students—with best practices from the teachers themselves!

  Randi Stone is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of eleven books, including Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do and Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. Stone lives with her teenage daughter, Blair, in Keene, New Hampshire.