PLAN NOW FOR OUR 2023 PROGRAM
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OUR PROGRAM WILL RUN JUNE 14-16, 2023
Both the Best Teachers Institute and our partner, Goucher College, are pleased to announce our Best Teachers Summer Institute, June 14-16, 2023. It’s been a challenge to make plans in the midst of an ongoing pandemic, a broken leg (Bain), and a heart transplant (Lang), but we have a blueprint we think will be exciting, flexible, and safe, meeting the demands of an unknown future. Our telephones and email boxes have been overflowing with inquiries about 2023. So here’s the answer:
We will hold an online program on June 14-16, starting at 9:00 am ET, June 14, 2023, with sessions through the day and on June 15 and 16 (full schedule available). The last workshop will end by 1 pm on Friday, June 16.
Is There Truth in the Rumor That 2023 Will Be the Last Year for the Best Teachers Institute? Could Be.
How Do You Become A Part of this Program?
You should apply, using the Apply Now button below. Your application will be reviewed immediately and in the blink of an eye, you will be notified that you have been admitted.
But What If Your Plans Change
We anticipate based on past years that admission to the program will be highly competitive and enrollment is limited, but you will already have your ticket to ride. Refunds will be available for those who are forced to cancel for reasons they cannot control.
If you must cancel entirely before May 1, 2023, you will receive a full tuition refund.
Why an online program? We have used online programs since the beginning of the pandemic. They are highly interactive and participants tell us they transformed their classes. The online programs are less expensive, saving you or your departmental budget on both tuition and travel expenses. At the same time, you will still get a chance to interact with people from around the world and with our wonderful faculty facilitators.
Here are the Details
On October 15, 2022, we will begin accepting applications for the 2023 program, held in the comfort and beauty of your home or office. Doesn’t that sound much better than getting on flight with hostile passengeers and spending several hours in a metal tube. We’ll have some break times when you can explore your own backyard and contemplate the wonderful course you will be creating..
Building A Super Course or Small Teaching
This year’s institute will be built around Ken Bain’s Super Courses, Princeton University Press, 2021 and What the Best College Teachers Do, Harvard University Press, 2004 and James Lang’s Small Teaching, Jossey-Bass, 2016 and Distracted, Basic Books, 2020. We will explore the small things that will make a big difference and the big things that will make a huge difference. Big Teaching and Small Teaching, and you will decide what kind of course you want to build.
Bain and Lang will conduct many of the interactive sessions. They will be joined by some of the most successful and innovative university professors in the world who will help you explore the creation of natural critical learning environments, using cutting edge research on human learning, including Eric Mazur, pioneering professor of physics from Harvard University, among others. In 2014 Eric was named the best college teacher in the world. He has introduced a variety of important innovation to teaching and learning.
All programs will be highly interactive, modeling active and dynamic learning in boldly collaborative sessions. Participants will build their own Super Courses and/or Small Teaching—on campus, on line or anywhere—with lots of support and without losing their minds.
How to Get Your Copies of the Book
Beginning in late October you will find links on this page where you can order all of the books, some at a significant discount. Come back October 31 to find those links. Discount Code for Super Courses, KB30 Follow Button Below and use the code to receive 30% discount on your purchase of Ken Bain’s book.
Work with people from around the world who will be engaged in this research-based re-invention of teaching and learning.
Our work together will produce highly inventive and effective deep learning courses, capable of stimulating unparalleled commitment, learning and growth—transforming an entire school or department. Some people will design courses that will be offered online; others, on campus; and still others in the field.
Some will focus within a single discipline; others will be problem-based multi-disciplinary offerings.
This is the most ambitious endeavor we have devised in the 25-year history of the Best Teachers Institute. It will be lead by our distinguished teaching faculty members
Enrollment limited.
Special Opportunity
The DKDK Project and the Best Teachers Institute are thrilled to invite professors and educators from secondary and post-secondary settings to join us for an online workshop focused on transformational teaching practices. This two-hour virtual gathering is a unique opportunity to delve into the following questions:
What are the benefits of building learning experiences that are place-based and get students out of the classroom and into the world?
How can professors/educators effectively design deep learning experiences that extend beyond their campus and classroom?
What is transfer and how can it be used to generate experience?
Participants will leave this workshop brimming with ideas to explore and energized to design and redesign future courses.
What participants can expect
This workshop is interactive. Through a series of seminar-style discussions and small breakout groups, participants will explore ways to make the content of their course memorable, transferable and transformational for students. Participants in this workshop will learn alongside experienced educators who have developed recognized, place-based programs over several decades.
The cost of the workshop is $150
June 28, 2023
10 AM-12 Noon
In Your Living Room
Via Zoom
Go Here to Register for this Extra Opportunity
South Mountain Reservation Lake: Located in 19th century 2500 acre reservation park designed by Frederick Olmsted who also designed Central Park in Manhattan. Located one mile from Best Teachers Institute headquarters
In this Summer Workshop participants will bring their Super Course plans to three days of highly interactive sessions, getting individual and group help. Enrollment will be limited to ensure that people get the attention they need. .
"I want circular tables in my classroom so I can have a teaching set-up like they do at #BestTeachers18"
Stephanie Lancaster, 2017 Alum of BestTeachers17
Questions? Call (973) 847-9049
Eagle Rock Reservation, site of 911 Memorials and spectacular view of Manhattan (something Manhattan will never have). Also site of Edison’s secret laboratory (now a restaurant) Located 2 miles from our headquarters.
Our home: Best Teachers Institute, located in South Orange, NJ, right outside New York City. One of the earliest electric trains in the world came into South Orange in the early 1930’s with Thomas Edison at the controls. The Village was founded in 1690
Historic Village of South Orange electric train station at dusk where Thomas Edison helped pioneer electric trains.
The iconic shots of Manhattan are all from New Jersey, including this one taken from Hamilton Park where Aaron Burr had his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton. You’re looking directly into mid-town where the train from South Orange will arrive. That’s King Kong climbing the Empire State Building in the center of the picture (you have to use your imagination)
Use code KB30 for 30 percent discount of Ken Bain’s bookon Princeton University Press Website.
Details about schedules and tuition are available after you click on
“Game-Changing”
“My participation in the Best Teachers Institute remains one of the most transformative learning experiences in my professional career.”
“What was it that made [this program] so completely absorbing, rich, and effective? Because of the masterful way in which you modeled all of the essential ingredients for deep learning.”
