Middle Grades Resources

This book provides tips and processes that inspire or propel learning to help teachers design their curriculum and pedagogy.

This authoritative volume brings together developmentalists and early educators to discuss what an integrated, developmentally appropriate curriculum might look like across the preschool and early elementary years.

This article draws out the implications for school and classroom practices of an emerging consensus about the science of learning and development, outlined in a recent synthesis of the research.

This article explores and documents the growth and development of the science of learning using a tripartite approach.

This book presents highly accessible step-by-step guidance on how to transform teaching with four essential strategies: Retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition.

This book presents a strategy for improving student learning with a series of modest but powerful changes. These strategies are designed to bridge the chasm between primary research and the classroom environment in a way that can be implemented by any faculty in any discipline, and even integrated into pre-existing teaching techniques.

Intervention models to promote healthy adolescent development highlight the importance of developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); however, scant resources identifying DAP in relation to the relevant research are available. With the increased professionalization of youth work and the expanding research on adolescent development, more comprehensive, research-based resources are needed for the education and training of persons working to enhance youth outcomes.

This book compares adolescent behavioural changes with ongoing changes in the brain and discusses potential implications for health and educational policy-making.

This book for adolescent-centered teaching provides keys to curriculum design, instruction, and assessment within the context of a developmentally appropriate, differentiated approach.