This report describes the findings of an analysis of a series of action research projects conducted by Vigo County School Corporation at Terre Haute South Vigo High School (hereinafter referred to as South Vigo). During the 2008-2009 school year, 19 teachers at South Vigo participated in independent action research studies regarding the extent to…

In most teacher education courses, instructional strategies are merely listed and explained. Students rarely have the opportunity to see these strategies in use until they become student teachers. What better way to teach secondary instructional strategies to pre-service teachers than by modeling these strategies using teacher education content?…

Describes a series of opening activities for the study of the Holocaust in order to discover: (1) students' current knowledge base about the Holocaust; (2) students' depth of knowledge about the Holocaust; and (3) students' crucial questions and concerns about the Holocaust. (CMK)