• Students as citizens
• The lesson’s teaching challenges
• What makes cooperative learning successful
• The value of constructivist learning
• How to get started
• How you know when you’ve done a good job
• Her background

Kristen Borges, who majored in political science and has a Master’s degree in social sciences, has been teaching at Southwest High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for the last six years. In these interview excerpts, which were taped when her class was involved in a simulation of a Supreme Court trial on a First Amendment case, she talks about her constructivist approach to teaching civics.