In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning FROM THE PUBLISHER
When first published in 1987, this seminal work was widely hailed for its honest examination of how teachers teach, how students learn, and the gap that lies in between. In depicting her own classroom struggles, Nancie Atwell shook our orthodox assumptions about skill-and-drill-based curriculums and became a pioneer of responsive teaching. Now, in the long-awaited second edition, Atwell reflects on the next ten years of her experience, rethinks and clarifies old methods, and demonstrates new, more effective approaches.
SYNOPSIS
Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, In the Middle.
FROM THE CRITICS
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Atwell, founder and teacher at a K-8 demonstration school in Maine, urges middle school educators to come out from behind their desks and turn classrooms into workshops where students and teachers create the curriculum together. Includes several hundred mini-lessons with scripts and examples for teaching them, ideas for teaching conventions, and systems for record keeping. Seventeen appendices offer forms for keeping track of individual student work, and lists of favorite adolescent literature. This second edition contains new chapters on genres, evaluation, and the teacher as writer. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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