Summarizes teacher effectiveness literature and explores teaching-as-science and teaching-as-art, attempting to choose the best metaphor to describe the profession. The science-process metaphor has a better chance for improving teaching, though becoming a classroom scientist or researcher may be a difficult and lengthy process. Includes 24…

This article reviews aspects of the work of Lawrence Stenhouse in curriculum development and research, identifying and summarizing his core ideas: curriculum development as social and political action, the importance of case studies for involving teachers in research, and teaching as an art. (TE)