Leaders for a Movement

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, and 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, and Peter Lind.
• Chapter 5. Professional Development and the Middle School: Tangled Threads; Thomas S. Dickinson, Deborah A. Butler, and M. Michele Pittard.
• Chapter 6. Effective Professional Development: What Is It?; P. Elizabeth Pate and Katherine F. Thompson.
• Chapter 7. Professional Development for Middle Grades Teachers: Does One Size Fit All?; Nancy Flowers and Steven B. Mertens.
• Chapter 8. National Board Certification as Staff Development: A Teacher's Perspective; Timothy M. Mullen and 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. and 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 and Alexandra T. Weinbaum.
• Chapter 13. Leadership for Results; Ronald Williamson and 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, and 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 and Rosalyn Edelson.
• Chapter 21. Turning Points: Some Questions to Ask; Sally N. Clark and Donald C. Clark.
• Chapter 22. Using Structured Interviews to Facilitate Reflection and Systematic School Improvement; Donald C. Clark and Sally N. Clark.
• Chapter 23. Eastern Kentucky University's Middle Grades Methods; Dorie Combs, Melinda Wilder, Keith Kull, Sara Moore, Faye Newsome, Rodney White, and 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 and 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.
• About the Authors.
• Index.