This article describes a teacher's experience with a child who had emotional and behavioral problems in the regular classroom. At the beginning of first grade, the student had a negative reputation with the staff based on his previous behavior. The teacher shares ways in which the child was given support in school. Generosity, belonging, mastery,…

After a yearlong first-grade teaching assignment, a professor of literacy studies shares insights about doing instruction versus lecturing about it. Explores scientific knowledge versus practical wisdom, tyranny of method versus centrality of personal relationships, visible versus invisible theories, reduction/simplicity versus complexity, and the…

Describes a later-entry first grade teacher at a rural school in Indiana, who has continued to teach despite a number of hurdles that would impede many educators. Demonstrates her commitment to the profession and to her school, a commitment which has continued to grow through each career stage. (RS)

First grade teacher Susie Jablinske talks about her teaching experience in this interview. The conversation covers her background, the role of teacher militancy on educational quality, teaching conditions in her school, and her teaching methods. (AM)

Presents one teacher's experience of and reflections on the use of her teaching-for-thinking program as opposed to the traditional methods of teaching. (BB)