The Essential Middle School, 4th Edition

Sound research-based strategies have made The Essential Middle School a must-have resource inservice middle school teachers for years. Now with even more applications in the planning and management sections , written by a practicing teacher, readers can easily see how research-based strategies can be applied in today's classrooms. Emphasis on new technologies and Internet resources are included, as well, making this a valuable resource for instructors and students alike.

 

• Thorough coverage of the role of technology in today's middle schools.

  • Inservice teachers' awareness and acceptance of the presence and impact of technology on classroom operations is brought into focus through this coverage.

• Thorough discussion of curriculum standards—The role of standards in teaching and learning in the middle school.

  • Practicing teachers gain an understanding of the impact of standards in their classroom lives and how to address these standards.

• Up to date demographics—Affecting middle schools and the impact of demographics on instruction.

  • New teachers can gain understanding of their students and learn how to individualize instruction for the variety of students they will teach.

• Coverage of the role of parents' involvement in their middle student's learning.

  • Inservice teachers are enlightened to how they can incorporate parent presence in the educational experiences of their students.

Jon Wiles is a highly experienced educator who has provided curriculum leadership to schools and educational agencies for over thirty years. His specialty is the creation and implementation of curriculum plans. Wiles's work as an educational consultant has taken him to hundreds of agencies in more than forty states and a dozen foreign nations in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Wiles is the author or coauthor of twelve widely used books addressing curriculum and educational leadership. His text, Curriculum Development: A Guide to Practice (Seventh Edition), has been used for nearly thirty years in colleges and universities throughout the world to train curriculum leaders. Other areas of publication by Wiles include teacher training, administration, school supervision, theory of change, politics of education, middle grades education, and technology.