Describes a comprehensive environmental education program and facilities at Gullett Elementary School, in Austin, Texas. The program helps children learn responsibility and respect for animals and each other. Attendance improves, as children are responsible for feeding an animal entrusted to their care. Students score in the upper 90 percentiles…

Contrasts two fourth-grade teachers' treatment of a student's robin eggshell. One teacher continues with a conventional, text-based science lesson; the other asks what the eggshell means and helps students devise research questions to be pursued in the library and in art class. Also, seven provocative questions are posed for would-be education…

Describes an introduction-to-teaching course that helps students question ingrained beliefs and assumptions about teaching. Students envision teaching knowledge as lists of methods for discipline, management, evaluation, and instruction that, once memorized, will ensure their success. The characteristics making knowledge worth knowing often get…

Demands for a differentiated curriculum for gifted students raise implementation and evaluation issues. One approach is to change both content and learned thinking strategies. There are four methods of content differentiation: acceleration, enrichment, sophistication, and novelty. To determine a program's effectiveness, there must be evidence of…