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What the Best College Teachers Do

What the Best College Teachers Do BOOK REVIEW Edited by Ken Bain Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. 207 pages. Hardcover ($21.95). ISBN: 0-674-01325-5 Dr. Ken Bain serves as Vice Provost for Instruction learning were characteristic of highly effective teaching. and Director of Montclair State University’s Teaching Exemplary educators deliberately planned their courses and Learning Resource Center. More than thirty years backwards, clearly articulating student learning outcomes in the classroom provides Dr. Bain with “in-the-trenches” and then constructing experiences, finding resources, and experience to understand the difference between student determining appropriate assessments to facilitate and grades and student learning, superficial learning and in- measure student success in meeting those outcomes. depth understanding, and faculty popularity and faculty These faculty held high expectations of student learning effectiveness. A historian by training, Bain has spent the comprehension and understanding, coupled with belief last twenty years studying the scholarship of teaching and in and strong support for students to reach these learning. His 2004 book What the Best College Teachers Do high standards. Students were invariably treated with earned the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, an annual respect, compassion, and trust. Finally, exemplary faculty award from Harvard University Press for an Outstanding specifically sought and critically evaluated indications http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Geography Taylor & Francis

What the Best College Teachers Do

Hardy, Joyce Phillips
Journal of Geography , Volume 106 (2): 2 – Aug 2, 2007
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Taylor & Francis
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BOOK REVIEW Edited by Ken Bain Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. 207 pages. Hardcover ($21.95). ISBN: 0-674-01325-5 Dr. Ken Bain serves as Vice Provost for Instruction learning were characteristic of highly effective teaching. and Director of Montclair State University’s Teaching Exemplary educators deliberately planned their courses and Learning Resource Center. More than thirty years backwards, clearly articulating student learning outcomes in the classroom provides Dr. Bain with “in-the-trenches” and then constructing experiences, finding resources, and experience to understand the difference between student determining appropriate assessments to facilitate and grades and student learning, superficial learning and in- measure student success in meeting those outcomes. depth understanding, and faculty popularity and faculty These faculty held high expectations of student learning effectiveness. A historian by training, Bain has spent the comprehension and understanding, coupled with belief last twenty years studying the scholarship of teaching and in and strong support for students to reach these learning. His 2004 book What the Best College Teachers Do high standards. Students were invariably treated with earned the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, an annual respect, compassion, and trust. Finally, exemplary faculty award from Harvard University Press for an Outstanding specifically sought and critically evaluated indications

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Published: Aug 2, 2007

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