Together, elementary teachers and principals can generate a climate for citizenship education which instills in today's young people the ability to become the enlightened social decision makers of tomorrow. Why change is needed and how to foster it are discussed. (MT)

A teacher describes her evolution from idealistic beginner, through bubble bursting, to searching for ways to serve the needs of each child. With support from her district, her principal, professional groups, and extension classes, she entered the blossoming stage of teaching, a period of assimilation and integration. (MT)

The quality of teaching at the elementary school level is described, and three suggestions for improvement are given. (MNS)

Interviews two teacher researchers who offer their reflections on the college teacher educator's role in helping classroom teachers take control of their own learning. The two suggest that teacher educators must help classroom teachers clarify their beliefs about language learning so they can become better observers of children's language…

Postsecondary and elementary-secondary teaching have both similarities and differences. Rather than continuing a divisive, adversarial relationship, pre-K-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators should envision and enact a view of education as a continuum. (SK)

This analytical overview of writings on the African American military experience is designed for college and upper-level high school teachers and general readers. It excludes most contemporary accounts and focuses on works that concentrate on the African American experience, highlighting works for their quality and accessibility. (SLD)

Two functions of narrative common in educational discourse are coercive and emancipatory narratives. To account for the apparently contradictory purposes, researchers must take a longitudinal view and understand the contexts in which narratives arise. Research on teaching must make provisions for the multifunctionality of narrative. (SM)

Looks at the issue of professional relationships between teachers and librarians and how those relationships affect curricular decisions. Suggests teachers and librarians see each other as team-teachers who support each other's programs. (MG)

Describes MICROsearch, a self-contained system developed at the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information Resources for searching selected portions of the ERIC database on a microcomputer, and recommends that library media specialists use the program to teach basic online searching skills to teachers who are planning to take summer courses. (BBM)

Uses an autobiographical account to draw attention to some of the traditions, histories, and cultures that position women primary teachers and their work in society. Makes a case for engaging teachers, particularly student teachers, in detailed autobiographical reflection to help them to make sense of their professional lives and to further their…

Describes the collaboration between a researcher and the teachers at an elementary school in a curriculum inquiry and assessment process. Discusses putting the process to work, locating the questions, deciding what skills to teach and when and how to teach them, deciding what revisions to make, and notes the effects of the process on the…

Discusses the concept of teacher as coach for 11- to 14-year-old Montessori students writing poetry. Notes the children's need for nurturing at this sensitive age and the coach's process of acknowledging the universal and poetic in them. Presents samples of children's poetry to show how development and self-expression are fundamental partners in…

Prevention, not detection, is the best way to reduce plagiarism, the author writes. In this article he shares his own hard-won experience in coming to this view. By adopting this new view, some will regain their role as mentor teachers and will not be reduced to policers of plagiarists.

Creating and sustaining a collaborative culture takes work, effort and focus. If professional development delivered in the classrooms is to be successful, the focus and practice must become part of the school culture (Danielson, 2002). Providing in-classroom professional development has been the key to instructional reform at Lee Richmond…

In this paper, the author describes his own understanding of the process on how he moved from being a working-class boy who experienced school as a digression from his real interest--sports--to someone who had made education his life work. In particular, he describes his own changing gender, race, and class identity within the context of an…