Explains a system of goal setting which provides history teachers with a clear picture of what students wish to learn in an introductory course. Ask students what they would like to get out of the course, which goals they believe to be most important, and what techniques they suggest for working toward these goals. (Author/DB)

Recommends that history teachers incorporate educational theory into their courses. Describes and evaluates a history course at Brooklyn College constructed around Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive educational objectives. (Author/DB)