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March 6, 2008

Faculty book, article discussions set

Ken Bain’s 2004 book, “What the Best College Teachers Do,” is the text for this year’s faculty book discussions, sponsored by the Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence and presented by the Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education.

The book is the result of a 15-year study of nearly 100 professors in an effort to learn what makes great teachers great.

Bain is vice provost for instruction, professor of history and director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center at Montclair State University.

The book won Harvard University Press’s Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for an outstanding book on education and society.

Faculty facilitator Toni Carbo of the School of Information Sciences is the scheduled discussion leader for a session at noon March 18. Sue Smith of English is scheduled to lead the session at noon March 19.

Copies of the book are provided for faculty who register for the event.

In addition, faculty article discussions on Robert J. Kloss’s “A Nudge Is Best: Helping Students Through the Perry Scheme of Intellectual Development” (1994) will take place at 3:30 p.m. March 20 and at noon March 21.

In his article, Kloss, a professor of English at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., summarizes William Perry’s scheme of intellectual development, which states that students progress in their learning through a series of phases in their attitudes toward knowledge and what they believe knowledge to be.

Copies of the article are provided to faculty who register for the event.

Faculty wishing to reserve space in the discussion sessions, which will be held in 815 Alumni Hall, should register by contacting Michelle Lane at mlane@pitt.edu or 412/383-9279.

Enrollment is limited.


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