The focus of this seminar was on how teachers learn to teach learners with diverse backgrounds and learning styles and what they need to know to be effective instructors. The following papers were presented: (1) "What Teachers Need to Know about Learning" (Robert E. Floden); (2) "Teaching Children: What Teachers Should Know" (Alonzo B. Anderson); (3) "Teachers, Schema, and Instruction" (Siegfried Engelmann); (4) "Culture and Teaching: What Do Teachers Need to Know?" (Carl Grant); (5) "Cultural Embeddedness: The Role of Culture on Minority Students' Acquisition of English Literacy" (Henry Trueba); and (6) "What Teachers Need to Know about Cultural Diversity: Restoring Subject Matter to the Picture" (G. Williamson McDiarmid). (JD)