This guide provides teachers with background information and teaching activities to prepare students for a visit to the Spanish Quarter Museum in St. Augustine, Florida. It is designed to familiarize students with some of the concepts and words they will encounter in the open-air living history museum where interpreters in period clothing re-live…

This study documented elementary teachers' reported practices in mathematics, science, social studies, literature, art, and music. The study also identified the extent to which teachers espoused instructional goals and practices associated with teaching for understanding compared with basic skills approaches. Respondents were 678 elementary school…