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• Title:What the best college teachers do / Ken Bain.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bain, Ken.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2331 .B34 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 09-15-2024
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB2331 .B34 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:College teaching--United States.
  Effective teaching--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Teaching--methods
  United States
  
• Description:207 pages ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study, 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 believe in two things: that teaching matters, and that students can learn. Bain describes examples of ingenuity and compassion, of students' discoveries of new ideas and the depth of their own potential. This book is a source of insight and inspiration for first-year teachers and seasoned educators.--From publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-200) and index.
  
• ISBN:0674013255 (alk. paper)
  9780674013254 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Defining the Best
  2. What Do They Know about How We Learn?
  3. How Do they Prepare to Teach?
  4. What Do They Expect of Their Students?
  5. How Do They Conduct Class?
  6. How Do They Treat Their Students?
  7. How Do They Evaluate Their Students and Themselves?
  Epilogue: What Can We Learn From Them?
  App. How the Study Was Conducted.