This document presents the course syllabus for Education 590 Culminating Experience at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's teacher licensure program. It also includes action research projects from spring 2003: "'To Track or Untrack...That Is the Question'" (Sarah Armes); "Providing Urban Students with the Motivation to Succeed in School" (Laura K. Cline); "Understanding the Structure of DNA" (Gary S. Dunn); "The Effectiveness of Direct Instruction with High Priority (Low Performing) Middle School Students" (Andrew Falk); "Pythagorean Theorem Learning Assessment in Urban High School Geometry" (William A. Floyd); "Flexibility with the Sit and Reach Test" (Heather Huffman); "Total Physical Response Storytelling and Vocabulary Retention in Second Language Learning" (Christina L. McCombs); "The Use of Mnemonic Devices in the Teaching of Mathematics in Middle School: What a Group of Eighth Graders Remember that Help Them Solve Math Problems" (Charles C. Milam, Sr.); "Learning through Directed Instruction vs. Cooperative Learning" (Julie Burnes Novak); "Effects of Emphasizing the Processes of Scientific Inquiry in Relation to Student Motivation and Achievement in the Middle School Science Curriculum" (John Ramey); "The Merits of Geography Teaching that Engages and Provides Experiential Learning for Students" (John Shearer); "Children's Theatre" (Erianona M. Vali); and "Gender Bias in the Science Classroom: An Analysis of the Science TCAP Achievement Test for 2002" (Jason Wohlers). (Papers contain references.) (SM)