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What the best college students do
The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life.
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The learning household : how to help your child get more out of school
\"Children are eager learners, but many find school alienating. How can parents nurture kids' natural curiosity? Educators Ken Bain and Marsha Marshall Bain show that by creating a \"learning household\" that encourages creativity and resourcefulness, parents can help bring the joy of learning back to the classroom\"--Provided by publisher.
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The joy of teaching
Gathering concepts and techniques borrowed from outstanding college professors,The Joy of Teachingprovides helpful guidance for new instructors developing and teaching their first college courses.Award-winning professor Peter Filene proposes that teaching should not be like a baseball game in which the instructor pitches ideas to students to see whether they hit or strike out. Ideally, he says, teaching should resemble a game of Frisbee in which the teacher invites students to catch ideas and pass them on.Rather than prescribe any single model for success, Filene lays out the advantages and disadvantages of various pedagogical strategies, inviting new teachers to make choices based on their own personalities, values, and goals. Filene tackles everything from syllabus writing and lecture planning to class discussions, grading, and teacher-student interactions outside the classroom. The book's down-to-earth, accessible style makes it appropriate for new teachers in all fields. Instructors in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences will all welcome its invaluable tips for successful teaching and learning.
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Managing Yourself
“How can you think about your own thinking while you are thinking?” I asked a college student recently who was working in my favorite Peruvian fusion restaurant. She looked at me, puzzled. “That’s too much thinking,” she finally said, as she laid a plate of roast chicken, plantains, and rice on my table. Yet answering that question is essential to achieving success in college and finding a creative life. It actually makes life and thinking less cluttered and clearer, not more so.
If you understand how you think and work, you have more control over who you will become. Abilities
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Curiosity and Endless Education
On a hot September afternoon, four hundred students crushed into a small auditorium, looking for seats on the long rows that curved around like giant horseshoes. As the room filled with chattering voices, each one grew louder to compete with the clamor around them.
After a few minutes, a tall, thin man wearing white running shoes, brown trousers, and a blue shirt entered and stood at a podium in the front of the room. From their seats, most of the students could look down at the top of his head. He clipped on a lavalier microphone and cleared his throat.
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Messy Problems
One hot and lazy summer day last year, I was sitting on my patio working on this book and watching a six-year-old play baseball with his younger brother. While he pounded the ball into his glove, I had a computer in my lap and was plugging away at the keyboard. At one point he crept up next to me, looked over my shoulder at the work on the screen, and asked the most difficult of questions: “Where do we go when we die?”
Not wanting to get into that discussion, I deflected his inquiry. “I don’t know,” I answered.
“Can
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What Makes an Expert?
When Jeff Hawkins was growing up on the north shore of Long Island, years before he designed a small computing device that changed the world, he and his two brothers and his father invented stuff, mostly wild-looking contraptions that floated. “My house was a little like the old movieYou Can’t Take It with You,” he later reported. At dinnertime, the boys and their father wolfed down their meals and went immediately to the gigantic garage that seemed larger than all the rest of the house put together. In that magic space, they tinkered with plastics, metals, and woods, fashioning
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The Roots of Success
Sherry Kafka came from a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks. Her little community in the backwoods of that largely rural state had none of the artistic trappings that would later define her life and make her one of the most celebrated designers and planners in the country. In fact, she later reported, her town didn’t even have a movie theater. Once a week, “a gentleman” would come to town with a tent, set it up in the square, and show a movie “if he didn’t get drunk that week.”
Her family didn’t have much money, and they moved around
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Making the Hard Choices
Jo Rowling, the woman who created Harry Potter, recently stood before a Harvard graduating class and told them a story from her own life. When she went off to the university to study, she said, her “parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college,” hoped that she would study something “useful,” a subject that would earn her a living and keep her out of poverty. They wanted her to pursue “a vocational degree,” she explained. “I wanted to study English Literature.”
Perhaps after some family bickering, she reached a compromise with them
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