From February 19–21, 2005, several hundred political scientists metat the second annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning inBethesda, Maryland. To facilitate an atmosphere of intensiveinteraction and mutual learning, the conference was conducted in the“European format” where topic-specific Tracks worked as adeliberative community over three days rather than the format ofAmerican conferences—paper, paper, paper, comment, question, then onto a different session. Track Five's task was to exchange ideasabout teaching methodology with the goal of formulating proposalsthat could be disseminated to the discipline. Interestingly, thetopic was taken up by contributors in Track Five from two angles:first, “teaching methods” as a pedagogical issue and second,teaching research methodology.