Slices of Life: Managing Dilemmas in Middle Grades Teaching by David Mandzuk

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In Slices of Life: Managing Dilemmas in Middle Grades Teaching, middle grades teaching professors David Mandzuk and Shelley Hasinoff provide teachers with a four-step model to tackle the real issues that crop up in daily classroom life. In addition, the authors provide a solid grounding in pedagogical theory related to:

• accommodating the needs of diverse learners while maintaining high academic standards.
• maintaining individuality while making decisions based on team consensus.
• behaving as a professional while occupying different and sometimes conflicting roles.
• building community while negotiating personal and social relationships.
• engaging students in learning relationships while establishing authority.

Individual teachers, teams, and study groups, as well as pre-service teachers will find this resource helpful in handling classroom dilemmas and thoughtfully arriving at the best, most professional courses of action.