Promoting a Successful Transition to Middle School
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Overview
CONTENTS
• An Overview of School Transitions
• The Developmental Transition of Starting Middle School
• The Systemic and Ecological Transition in Starting Middle School
• Important Themes in the Transition into Middle School
• Activities and Strategies for Implementing Transition Programs
• How Educators Can Ease the Transition
• References
Synopsis
Highlighting best practices from middle schools around the U.S., Akos, Queen and Lineberry offer educators and parents research-based insights and strategies for successful transition programs. Coverage includes an overview of school transitions at all levels from kindergarten through university, individual development and the environmental or contextual changes that occur in transition, major research findings and themes in the transition to middle school, activities and strategies for implementing transition programs, and the roles of central office staff, school principals, school counselors, and classroom teachers in easing the transition. No subject index. Akos and Queen are faculty at the U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lineberry is with a school district in Charlotte. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR