A volume in The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education Series Editors: Steven B. Mertens, Illinois State University and Micki M. Caskey, Portland State University This text highlights partnerships between schools and teacher preparation programs where candidates have opportunities to learn in their coursework alongside teachers in the classroom in clinical settings, bridging the theory practice divide and helping candidates better understand the simultaneous and multi dimensional nature of teaching and learning in schools. All of the authors in this text describe how their programs...

A volume in The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education Series Editors: Steven B. Mertens, Illinois State University and Micki M. Caskey, Portland State University This text highlights partnerships between schools and teacher preparation programs where candidates have opportunities to learn in their coursework alongside teachers in the classroom in clinical settings, bridging the theory practice divide and helping candidates better understand the simultaneous and multi dimensional nature of teaching and learning in schools. All of the authors in this text describe how their programs...