Super courses the future of teaching and learning Ken Bain with Marsha Marshall Bain

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bain, Ken., Author.

Bain, Marsha Marshall, author.

Series:

Skills for Scholars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Curriculum change.

Education, Higher--Curricula.

Education, Higher.

College teaching.

Learning, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

x, 287 pages illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey London Princeton University Press [2021]

Summary:

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learningDecades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and motivation can be unleashed—and it’s not through technology or even the best of lectures. In Super Courses, education expert and bestselling author Ken Bain tells the fascinating story of enterprising college, graduate school, and high school teachers who are using evidence-based approaches to spark deeper levels of learning, critical thinking, and creativity—whether teaching online, in class, or in the field.Visiting schools across the United States as well as in China and Singapore, Bain, working with his longtime collaborator, Marsha Marshall Bain, uncovers super courses throughout the humanities and sciences. At the University of Virginia, undergrads contemplate the big questions that drove Tolstoy—by working with juveniles at a maximum-security correctional facility. Harvard physics students learn about the universe not through lectures but from their peers in a class where even reading is a social event. And students at a Dallas high school use dance to develop growth mindsets—and many of them go on to top colleges, including Juilliard. Bain defines these as super courses because they all use powerful researched-based elements to build a “natural critical learning environment” that fosters intrinsic motivation, self-directed learning, and self-reflective reasoning. Complete with sample syllabi, the book shows teachers how they can build their own super courses.The story of a hugely important breakthrough in education, Super Courses reveals how these classes can help students reach their full potential, equip them to lead happy and productive lives, and meet the world’s complex challenges.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART I THE IDEA

Prologue

CHAPTER ONE Pinning Our Hopes on Our Machines

CHAPTER TWO How We Learn

PART II THE COURSES

CHAPTER THREE A New Kind of University

CHAPTER FOUR Books Behind Bars

CHAPTER FIVE Diverse Classes

CHAPTER SIX From Charlottesville to Singapore and Beyond: Searching for Super Courses

CHAPTER SEVEN Self-Directed Learning and Big Questions: From the DIY Girls to Hurricane Katrina

CHAPTER EIGHT Peer Instruction and Then Some

CHAPTER NINE Remaking a Super Course

CHAPTER TEN Soup of Interdisciplinary Learning

CHAPTER ELEVEN Integration of Abilities

CHAPTER TWELVE Fostering Growth Mindsets

CHAPTER THIRTEEN A Super Course Department

CHAPTER FOURTEEN A Personal Journey toward a Super Course

CHAPTER FIFTEEN All Knowledge Is Related

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Pedagogy of Getting Out

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Grades

Epilogue

APPENDIX

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691182568

9780691185460