Creating the Natural Critical Learning Environment: The Syllabus |
| The Syllabus as Promise: Can a shift in the Syllbus produce a better learning environment? |
| What kind of Syllabus do Highly Effective Teachers Develop? |
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We studied teachers who have enormous success in helping and encouraging their students to achieve remarkable learning and found that they usually produce a certain kind of syllabus. |
If the syllabus didn’t exist and you wanted to invent one based on what we think we know about human motivation and learning, what kind of syllabus would you produce? |
Answer: The same kind that highly successful teachers already use. |
See Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA: 2004, for more on creating Natural Critical Learning Environments.