“In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task, we don't need routine experts who know all the right procedures but adaptive ones who can… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Sure, they became frustrated with students at times and occasionally displayed impatience, but because they were willing to face the failures of teaching and… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Donald Saari uses a combination of stories and questions to challenge students to think critically about calculus. “When I finish this process,” he explained,… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task,… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“In so many introductory science classes, the chemist [Dudley Herschbach] observed, students encounter what they see as "a frozen body of dogma" that must… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.” — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Steele found, for example, that if he could convince women who took difficult mathematics examinations that everyone connected with the test assumed they would… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“When I interviewed one of the mathematicians in the study, he asked me if I knew how to define a function. I confessed that… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image
“Young children who constantly hear “person” praise (“you’re so smart to do this well”) as opposed to “task” praise (“you did that well”) are… — Ken Bain Copy Share Image