The activities of the Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues (Texas) are described. The center focuses on the clinical teaching of medical ethics, collaborative teaching and research involving ethicists and clinicians, and the training of future practitioners. Problems and achievements are highlighted. (Author/MSE)

Interdisciplinary teaching helps students see how knowledge and tools within individual disciplines can be brought together to address problems or issues of concern to mankind. Team teaching within seminars allows students to witness and engage in disciplinary interrelations. (MSE)

Physical fitness is now concerned with health related components and plays a significant role in minimizing the risks of hypokinetic diseases. There is a need for an interdisciplinary approach to physical fitness involving collaboration of the health educator and the physical educator. (JD)

Describes how coteaching can enhance reflective practice. Three phases of coteaching help promote reflective practice and professional growth are described: building trust and setting goals via initial interviews, reflection-on-action, and reflection-in-action. Recommendations for staff developers are included. (SM)

At Southegan High School, in Amherst, New Hampshire, all students, including those with physical and emotional disabilities, are fully included in nontracked, heterogeneously grouped classes. Full inclusion is possible because of three program components: collaborative planning time; curriculum design characterized by planning backward from final…

With agriculture teaching as its theme, this issue looks at teaching horticulture, team teaching, the ups and downs of teaching, integrating students with disabilities, and why people choose teaching as a career. (JOW)

Describes a letter-writing and video exchange project carried on between two English classrooms, one in New York and one in Georgia. Outlines methods used to connect the classes, including dealing with issues of racial and ethnic differences. Claims that such methods validate students and build self-esteem. (HB)

Teams are incompatible with the scientific management philosophy underlying traditional curricular and organizational theory. This article examines J. R. Hackman's book "Groups That Work (and Those That Don't): Creating Conditions for Effective Teamwork" (1990), as it illuminates the experience of teaching on a middle school…

Two team teachers in an open-area elementary classroom describe how they create with their students a curriculum derived from the students' interests and varied experiences. They stress the importance of connecting the life of each child outside the school with the life of the classroom. (SK)

Describes team-taught courses in which the lectures of each team member are critiqued by other team members. Stresses that the result is a deeper, more critical analysis of each team member's material and of the interrelationship of their presentations. (DB)

An interdisciplinary arts curriculum at Columbia College (Illinois) offers young arts professionals an opportunity to deepen creative exploration while preparing for administrative and teaching careers. The program offers collaborative teaching and classes that include students with many individual specialties. Five studio courses concentrate on…

Explains how and why the Key Concerns in Team Teaching Rating Scale was developed. Suggests how the scale can be used by others who become involved in training for team teaching. Includes the scale. (RS)

Describes use of portfolios with middle school students, highlighting assessment purpose, structure, evidence, implementation, grading, validity, and cost considerations. Portfolios have the potential to revise schools' roles in preparing students for the future. Convincing parents and the public that portfolio completion is a demanding task will…

Discusses the New Learning Communities (NLC) program developed by CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) to support pioneers in education who use networking and networked information to support student-centered teaching and learning. Highlights include computer networks in higher education, especially the Internet; information literacy skills;…

Describes a project that used the process of cognitive coaching to implement the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. Argues that cognitive coaching is a vehicle that helps teachers change and reform both curriculum development and instruction, combats the isolation of teaching, provides feedback, aids in reflective…