"Constructivist Teaching Strategies for Diverse Middle-Level Classrooms is designed to prepare prospective middle-level teachers for their first classroom experience and to help in-service teachers improve their teaching skills. Each of the Themes in this text addresses a major goal set by the National Middle School Association or the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. The book has three themes: constructivism, multiculturalism, and a proactive approach to teaching - all topics of importance to middle-level teachers."--Jacket.
Contents
Teaching and You -- Planning -- Using Performance Objectives -- Long-Range Planning -- Planning Daily Lessons -- Assessment -- Evaluation -- Test Construction, Administration, and Scoring -- Providing for individual differences -- Individualizing Instruction -- Teaching in Multicultural Settings -- Teaching strategies and communications -- Teaching Strategies -- Communications -- Classroom motivation and discipline -- Motivation -- From Discipline to Self-Discipline.