Daftar Isi:1. Challenges for teaching and learning in the middle years 2. Thinking historically about the schooling of young people in the middle years 3. Teaching academically at risk students in middle school the role of explicit instruction and guided discovery learning 4. Success after (dis)continuous transfer (re)imaginative praxis for pedagogy curriculum and assessment 5. A fair go and student agency in the middle years classroom 6. Consulting young people in the middle years in New Zealand 7. High possibility classrooms in the middle years a model for reform 8. Teaching strategies that encourage student effort in years 8 and 9 9. Visceral pedagogies learning to teach middle years in the margins 10. The challenges of testing accountability understanding limitations and negotiating consequences 11. Engaging indigenous students the important relationship bertween Aboriginal and Torres strait islander students and their teachers 12. The experiences of Maori students in the middle years 13. Changing scenarios for teaching and learning in the middle years 14. Teacher identity in the middle years 15. A generic teacher education program that meets contemporary schools needs 16. Leading teacher professional learning in the middle years 17. The middle years as a site for reform from local to global