“Sure, they became frustrated with students at times and occasionally displayed impatience, but because they were willing to face the failures of… — 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
