Explores the use of the story-line method, in which teachers evaluate and clarify their own experiences and events in practice, through three studies involving 80 secondary school teachers. Findings show how the story-line method challenges teachers to select relevant experiences and events. (SLD)

Interviews with eight experienced teachers explored how they developed core beliefs about student learning and how the beliefs had changed. Results indicated that all of the teachers' current beliefs about learning resulted from development or change during their career. Most teachers learned cumulatively from experience. Development and change of…