Middle Grades Education: A Reference Handbook

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An expert guide to the development of the middle school model as the best educational environment designed to address students' developmental and social needs as well as educational needs. * Learning activities for all instructional strategies including differentiated instruction, inquiry-based and concept-based education, critical thinking and problem-solving strategies, the use of multiple intelligences, learning styles and cultural congruence, and cooperative learning * Planning guides and step-by-step presentations of academic service-learning, which connects the classroom to the community

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Pat Williams-Boyd is associate professor of education at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, and the director of Middle Vision: Center for Dynamic Middle Level Education. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Educational Leadership: A Reference Handbook.