Fostering Deep Learning in Students: A dialogue with Ken Bain

Thursday, September 29
7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Seton Auditorium A, Mount Saint Vincent University
All are Welcome   |   Admission is Free (No RSVP Required)

What do the best teachers do to spark interest and devotion to learning? Research tells us that many of our students will simply strive to survive in school. Others will be driven by grades. In many classes, only a few of them will take what the literature calls a deep approach, seeking to understand and then apply their knowledge. Even fewer of these students will become highly inventive adaptive experts. Yet some teachers have enormous success in fostering deep approaches and producing creative thinkers. What are these educators doing? What does the research on human learning and motivation tell us that we should all be doing? In this highly interative public lecture with Ken Bain, these important questions will be explored.

About Ken Bain
Dr. Ken Bain is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Professor of History and Urban Education at the University of the District of Columbia. He has been the founding director of four major teaching and learning centers (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, NYU and Montclair).

Internationally recognized for his insights into teaching and learning and for a fifteen-year study of what the best educators do, he has been invited to present at over 300 universities and events. His research has examined educational issues, including deep and sustained learning and the creation of natural critical learning environments. His book What the Best College Teachers Do won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society.

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