ABSTRACT
The author's principal was always showing the latest research on teaching. There was always a lot of information about "what research says". Some of them were actually curious about the research, but it failed to hold their sustained interest as it never included the complexities of their teaching lives and the daily nature of their work. One thing that seemed certain to him was that without the teachers' involvement in helping to think through what needed changing or improving, there would be few, changes or improvements in the classroom work. Although involving students in the teacher education program to learn about teaching was about "doing" things, making things, engaging in figuring out how students could be physically as well as intellectually involved, it didn't really take until it happened in the author's classroom. Waller says that it is not possible to develop the personalities of students favorably without giving like opportunities to teachers, and to liberate students without liberating teachers.
