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Teaching in the Middle and Secondary Schools

Ninth Edition

Richard D. Kellough and Jioanna Carjuzaa

Teaching in the Middle and Secondary Schools, Ninth Edition is a highly practical text for pre-service teachers in middle school and secondary methods courses. Readers will find useful, ready-to-use classroom applications for planning instruction, selecting and using instructional strategies, and assessment. Each module includes exercises and posttests.

NEW! Activities. New to this edition, this feature provides information on practical classroom instruction followed by opportunties to apply your knoweldge.

NEW! Teaching Scenarios. Experience situations real teachers face in the classroom and apply chapter concepts to classroom instruction through teaching scenarios located in each chapter.

NEW! Technology Rich Icon. Use this icon to find exercises and activities that include technology integration or can be adapted using technology to support learning, a stronger focus in the ninth edition. 

NEW! Exercises for active learning. Exercies in each module help readers continually assess their understanding and skill development. Many of the exercises are now available to complete electronically on the Companion Website for this text at http://www.pearsonhighered.com/kelloughsecondary9e.

Updated lesson plan samples. These have been provided by pre-service and in-service teachers, as well as model lessons from teacher educators.

Improved balance of content between middle and secondary schools. Increased emphasis on the middle school as uniquely different from both the high school and the traditional junior high school, as well as how pre- and early adolescence as different from late adolescence.

Competency-based modular format. This format provides learning objectives, content, and integrated practice and reinforcement that ends with an updated posttest assessment of how well the opening objectives have been achieved.

This practical, performance based methods text for middle and second school pre-service teachers is organized around four developmental components:

• Why–gives the rationale to support the components that follow
• What–what you will be teaching
• How–how you will teach it
• How well–how well you are teaching it.

Organized into four parts that are then split up into ten modules, the text begins with a history of education going back to colonial times.  The modules then cover the many and varied aspects of teaching pre and early adolescents, such as teaching students with exceptionalities, classroom management, diversity, instructional planning, using technology in the classroom, assessing student achievement, and self-assessment and continued professional development.  The authors contend that the best teacher is one who has an eclectic style and can monitor their own progress and make changes and adapt their strategies if they are not succeeding. 

The ninth edition has been carefully updated to reflect the diversity and current topics in the field today.  The book is a valuable resource for students today and as a reference for many years to come.

New To This Edition:

NEW!  Improved balance of content between middle and secondary schools–this emphasizes that middle school is uniquely different from both high school and the traditional junior high school and that pre-and early adolescence is different from late adolescence.

NEW!  Technology has been integrated throughout every module of the book–New features including “Teaching Scenarios,” “Activities,” and “Technology Rich” features were added to all modules.

NEW! Contributions from pre-service and in-service middle and secondary school teachers, teacher educators, and educational researchers have been added--to strengthen the tie between theory and practice.