Introduction to Middle Level Education

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Sara Davis Powell is a teacher, from the middle level classroom to teacher preparation as a professor and chair of education at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. She is a young adolescent advocate who writes about middle level teacher preparation, emphasizing a balance of theory and developmentally responsive and academically rigorous practice. She is actively involved in local classrooms and the middle school community through the facilitation of professional development, supervision of clinical interns, and research and writing about middle level issues. She is also a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences, where her enthusiasm for middle level education has proven contagious. Dr. Powell's most recent books include An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path, 3^rd edition(Pearson, 2015) and Wayside Teaching: Connecting with Students to Support Learning (Corwin, 2010).

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This comprehensive introduction to the children, choices, and challenges of teaching middle level education is written in an engaging, first person voice by an experienced middle level teacher. In it she examine the full range of topics relevant to this group of students, from student development and diversity to the structures of middle level education, curriculum instruction, assessment, advisory, service learning, the learning environment, and more. Nine focus teachers and nine focus students bring the concepts to life through photos, vignettes, and professional practice opportunities.

In addition to the title change from Introduction to Middle School to Middle Level Education to reflect the role of middle level education today, the new Third Edition features:

• NEW! The new Association for Middle Level Education Teacher Preparation Standards are incorporated.
• NEW! The 13 goals for young adolescent development as stated in the book’s section, This We Believe, are addressed multiple times at applicable times throughout the text.
• NEW! Service learning is addressed in a new major section in Chapter 6 and through new learning objectives.
• NEW! Reader-friendly “Dear future middle level teacher” letters introduce each chapter’s content to students in an engaging, interesting manner.
• NEW! An increased emphasis on the bully, the bullied, and the bystander, includes the devastation caused by cyberbullying.
• NEW! A new section on the Common Core State Standards includes a lengthy Q&A feature and an Advocates and Critics feature.
• NEW! A new learning objective and new section on Professional Relationships with Colleagues.
• NEW! Annotated links to 24 valuable resources and web links are presented in context of the chapters.
• NEW! Multiple references to social media as a tool for teaching and learning are made.