RSSBook Review: What the Best College Teachers Do
March 17th, 2006 | No Comments
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This book describes a large ethnographic study of teaching at the college level, trying to uncover the characteristics that separate good professors from bad, and exceptional professors from the merely good. In the process, this book reveals that the best professors seem to have an intuitive grasp of prominent theories of learning and assessment.
They understand that new knowledge is constructed from pre-existing knowledge and thus students’ prior experiences and misconceptions must be addressed during the course of instruction–learning results from an interaction between what the teacher knows and what the students know; poor teachers often view teaching and learning as a unidirectional process with knowledge flowing from teacher to students.
