Edited by P. Gayle Andrews and Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
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Contents:
Leaders for a Movement: An Introduction to Professional Preparation and Development of Middle Level Teachers and Administrators,
P.Gayle Andrews and Vincent A. Anfara, Jr.
Part I: Professional Preparation and Development of Middle Level Teachers.
Chapter 1: Middle Level Teacher Preparation: Status, Progress, and Challenges
C. Kenneth McEwin, Thomas S. Dickinson, & Tracy W. Smith
Chapter 2: When Puberty Defines Middle School Students: Challenging Secondary Education Majors’
Perceptions of Middle Level Students, Schools, and Teaching
Angela J. Lexmond
Chapter 3: Preparing Middle Level Teachers in Field-Based Cohorts
Micki M. Caskey
Chapter 4: Approaching and Avoiding the Middle: Teacher Preparation in New Zealand
C. J. Patrick Nolan, Ruth G. Kane, & Peter Lind
Chapter 5: Professional Development and the Middle School: Tangled Threads
Thomas S. Dickinson, Deborah A. Butler, & M. Michele Pittard
Chapter 6: Effective Professional Development: What Is It?
P.Elizabeth Pate & Katherine F. Thompson
Chapter 7: Professional Development for Middle Grades Teachers: Does One Size Fit All?
Nancy Flowers & Steven B. Mertens
Chapter 8: National Board Certification as Staff Development: A Teacher’s Perspective
Timothy M. Mullen & P. Gayle Andrews
Part II: Professional Preparation and Development of Middle Level Administrators
Chapter 9: Leadership Standards or Leaving Standardization for Leadership? What Best Meets
the Needs of a Middle Level Movement During Times of Severe Turbulence?
Steven Jay Gross
Chapter 10: Voices from the Middle: Pre-Service Preparation and Professional Development
of Middle School Principals
Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. & Kathleen M. Brown
Chapter 11: Support for New and Experienced Middle Level Principals: A Proposed Model
for Professional Development
Vicki N. Petzko
Chapter 12: Distributed Leadership in the Middle Grades: Lessons from School Self-Assessment
Pritha Gopalan & Alexandra T. Weinbaum
Chapter 13: Leadership for Results
Ronald Williamson & Susan Galletti
Chapter 14: Leadership Self-Efficacy: Beginning an Inquiry into the Development
and Impact of Middle School Principal Leadership
Stephen E. Lucas
Chapter 15: A Constructivist Approach to Developing Transformational Urban School Leaders
Sue C. Thompson, Donna M. Davis, Loyce Caruthers, & Larry Gregg
Chapter 16: Stranger in a Strange Land: School Climate, Theory, and Practice
Mark T. Miles
Part III: Resources.
Chapter 17: Early Adolescent Developmental Psychology Syllabus
T. Chris Riley-Tillman
Chapter 18: Elementary School and Middle School Curriculum Syllabus
Richard P. Lipka
Chapter 19: The National Forum’s Policy Statement on Teacher Preparation
The National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform
Chapter 20: Guidelines for Observation and Participation in the Classroom
P. Maureen Musser & Rosalyn Edelson
Chapter 21: Turning Points: Some Questions to Ask
Sally N. Clark & Donald C. Clark
Chapter 22: Using Structured Interviews to Facilitate Reflection and Systematic School Improvement
Donald C. Clark & Sally N. Clark
Chapter 23: Eastern Kentucky University’s Middle Grades Methods
Dorie Combs, Melinda Wilder, Keith Kull, Sara Moore, Faye Newsome, Rodney White, & John Brown
Chapter 24: Middle Grades Master Teacher Interview Guide
Holly Thornton
Chapter 25: Tomorrow’s Teachers Today: A Symposium on Middle Level Teacher Preparation:
Summary Session—A Professional Development Technique
Mary Henton
Chapter 26: Middle Level Teacher Education Questionnaire
Paul D. Deering & Barbara DeBaryshe
Chapter 27: Kimo’s Not-So-Excellent Day in Intermediate School: A Parable about Life in
Traditional Middle Level Schools
Paul D. Deering