What the Best College Teachers Do

Ken Bain

  • Winner of the Virginia and Warren Stone Prize, Awarded Annually by Harvard University Press for an Outstanding Book on Education and Society

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?

Appendix: How the Study Was Conducted

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: What the Best College Teachers Do
  • A photo of the author

Ken Bain is Vice Provost for Instruction, Professor of History, and Director of the Research Academy for University Learning at Montclair State University.