Discusses the educational role of museums and describes how cooperation between museums and schools can result in museum field trips which are valuable extensions of the school experience. (JMB)

Maintains that decisions regarding evaluation should be made in relationship to learning principles based on a developmental perspective. Using these principles as a basis, teachers are better able to select appropriate formal and informal evaluation procedures. Each procedure is defined and its limitations are discussed in terms of effectiveness.…

Argues that teachers' perspectives and insights are needed to make meaningful, enduring improvements in American education. Maintains that a useful teacher narrative should be genuine, invite reflection and discourse, be recursive and encourage reinterpretation, serve as an antidote to a "technological mentality," and be powerful and evocative.…

The pleasures and advantages of informal learning are highlighted in a story about childhood visits to a fabric shop. Contrasts the unhurried, flexible, self-directed nature of informal learning situations with the more structured and controlled environment of the classroom. Discusses skills and lessons learned in informal settings and suggests…

Examines how personal narratives contribute to professional development by giving teachers the opportunity to reflect upon teaching practice, engage in public discourse on teaching, make sense of teaching's complex nature, personalize their teaching, and connect with a professional community that values teaching. (TJQ)

Reviews six books: "Teacher Lore" (Schubert and Ayers), about teachers' accounts of their experience; "America's Best Classrooms" (Seymour and others); "Another Door to Learning," (Schwarz) about learning-disabled children; "Talking with Your Children about a Troubled World" (Dumas); "Our Family, Our…