2022 Revised Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards

Ellis Hurd

Association for Middle Level Education

Since AMLE first published its landmark text on educating young adolescents more than forty years ago, teaming has emerged and continues to be validated as a core structure within a high-performing middle school. This companion guide to that text, The Successful Middle School: This We Believe, will help schools explore how to create and sustain an impactful teaming process. 
Using his signature style, Jack identifies the 16 essential elements of teaming, exploring the what, why, and how of each. Complete with a wealth of resources, templates, and examples, this book is an essential guide for both veteran teams looking to expand on their success and educators just starting their teaming journey.

Successful Middle School Teaming

Jack Berckemeyer

We have always known that school counselors are important, but can most of us articulate what they do on a daily basis? The role of professional school counselor has become increasingly more complex and necessary as the needs of schools have changed. In the same way, so must our understanding of their importance to our schools. By exploring foundational documents, including The Successful Middle School: This We Believe and the ASCA National Model, we gain a better understanding of the intricacies and demands of comprehensive school counseling services and how we can best meet the needs of young adolescents through collaboration and execution. This companion guide to The Successful Middle School outlines recommended components of comprehensive middle school counseling services to best meet the ever-changing needs of young adolescents. It can be used by school communities to help implement all or portions of the middle school philosophy and comprehensive school counseling services to embrace the 18 Characteristics of Successful Middle Schools. The book accomplishes this goal through three sections: Section One defines what it means to have a comprehensive counseling program as well the various roles within schools that are important to its success. This section will help you audit your current program and identify opportunities for improvement. Section Two explores some of the foundational frameworks that shape school counseling programs, pulling together the vast literature available to help you realize how meeting the many needs of young adolescents is all connected. Section Three dives into the unique aspects of middle schools and how to leverage that knowledge to maximize your counseling program’s effectiveness. You will better understand how to facilitate collaboration between school counselors and other staff to the benefit of students.

The Successful Middle School Counseling Program

Ann McCarty Perez and Elise Kenney-Caldwell

The Successful Middle School Leader

Cedrick Gray

The Successful Middle School: A Place to Belong and Become

Patti Kinney

Laurie Barron

Get the information you need to start an advisory program or reinvigorate a flagging program with AMLE s, Advisory: Finding the Best Fit for Your School. 
Based on their work in middle schools and new research data on advisory programs nationwide, the authors present: 
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<li>rationale for advisory;</li> <li>options for planning, organizing, and scheduling advisories;</li> <li>examples of curriculums;</li> <li>and ideas for leadership and advisor training.</li>
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The exciting new release provides examples and support to for teachers searching for ways to meet the young adolescent need for building relationships that help them succeed academically and learn behaviors, values, ethics, and self-concepts that will guide their adult lives. Help your students build productive, meaningful lives by providing support they can count on during their critical developmental years by custom fitting an advisory program for your middle school.

Advisory: Finding the Best Fit for Your School

Jaynellen Behre Jenkins

J. Thomas Kane

Jim, Burns

Note: This book no longer includes DVD; content of the DVD is now available online. Link included in the book. Think the middle school concept is only good in theory? In today s world, getting the attention of educators, parents, and policymakers can be difficult, and without buy-in from everyone involved, successfully implementing the middle school concept can seem impossible. This resource shows you not only that it can be done, but also demonstrates exactly how to do it in your school! Read and watch as eight schools from around the country show you how their schools have implemented the 16 characteristics of successful middle level schools identified in This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents. This comprehensive resource visualizes what successful middle level schools can be and gives all middle level leaders information and direction to take action and fully implement the middle school concept providing the challenging and engaging educational experiences every young adolescent deserves. Highlights <ul>
<li>Newly revised to match the 16 characteristics of successful middle level schools identified in This We Believe. </li> <li>Demonstrates and explains to educators, parents, and policymakers what makes a truly successful middle level school. </li> <li>Videos of "in action" scenarios featuring compelling scenes from eight highly successful middle level schools across the country.</li> </ul>

This We Believe in Action: Implementing Successful Middle Level Schools

Book and CD-ROM Combo! AMLE's hot new release provides teachers with more than 60 ways to authentically assess student learning. Whether it s researching and describing Lewis and Clark's discoveries of the western frontier in a traditional journal format or writing blog entries from the perspective of a cell, students will learn to demonstrate and assess their own learning. This resource is invaluable for teachers seeking to supplement and broaden the assessment of student achievement. Specific, imaginative but practical strategies, lists of products and performance measures, background readings for teachers, ways to evaluate online resources, rubric criteria, and examples are all included to assist you in launching assessment measures of student progress that will inspire and motivate students while improving their achievement. Highlights <ul>
<li>60+ student assessment activities</li> <li>Rubric criteria and examples to aid in implementation</li> <li>Lists of product and performance measures</li> <li>Details on evaluating online resources</li>
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Authentic Assessment: Active, Engaging Product and Performance Measures

Sandra Schurr

The differentiation book you have been waiting for is finally here! AMLE s Ten Differentiation Strategies for Building Prior Knowledge distills the many differentiation theories, concepts, and ideas that abound to help you determine: <ul>
<li>Do my students have the skills and knowledge foundational to the next lesson?</li> <li>What background knowledge do they need?</li> <li>Do my students have any misconceptions based on past experiences that will get in the way of acquiring new knowledge? How will I uncover them? Correct them?</li> <li>Which students have already mastered the skills and knowledge of the next lesson?</li>
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These questions all relate to accessing, building, and assessing prior knowledge, a critical part of any instructional plan and you need this information for each student. This book will help you refine and deepen your data gathering on students prior knowledge so that you can thoughtfully move forward in your planning. Spencer s decades of teaching are evident in her detailed modeling of the applications of the ten strategies in all subject areas; the reader is left feeling motivated and confident to implement the strategies in the next lesson. Whether you are just starting with differentiation; looking for ways to increase the effectiveness of your lessons; or looking for some ways to use Web 2.0 tools to fully engage digital natives, these strategies will work for you!

Ten Differentiation Strategies for Building Prior Knowledge

jill-spencer

Initiate or improve student-led conferences in your school with this brand new release from AMLE. Learn how you can use student-led conferences to Communicate clear expectations for student learning. Increase student accountability for learning. Motivate students to produce quality work. Strengthen student skills of organization, leadership, and communication. Empower students to set and achieve realistic improvement goals. Partner with parents to support student achievement. Teach students to become self-evaluative, self-reflective learners. Foster positive communication between parents and students. Increase the percentage of parents attending conferences. Build students self-confidence and self-esteem. This resource is a true practitioner s guide, providing everything you need to implement this powerful practice.

Fostering Student Accountability through Student-Led Conferences

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