What the Best College Teachers Do

Name: What the Best College Teachers Do
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ISBN: 9780674013254

ISBN-10: 0674013255

ISBN-13: 9780674013254

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ken Bain

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What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly one hundred college teachers in a wide variety of fields and universities, offers valuable answers for all educators. The short answer is--it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand. Lesson plans and lecture notes matter less than the special way teachers comprehend the subject and value human learning. Whether historians or physicists, in El Paso or St. Paul, the best teachers know their subjects inside and out--but they also know how to engage and challenge students and to provoke impassioned responses. Most of all, they…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction: Defining the Best



What Do They Know about How We Learn?



How Do They Prepare to Teach?



What Do They Expect of Their Students?



How Do They Conduct Class?



How Do They Treat Their Students?



How Do They Evaluate Their Students and Themselves?


Epilogue: What Can We Learn from Them?



How the Study Was Conducted


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index