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Teaching college freshmen

Bette LaSere Erickson, Diane Weltner Strommer

(The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series)

Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991

1st ed.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Bette Erickson and Diane Strommer offer practical guidance to new and veteran faculty on how to most effectively teach and create academic support systems for college students in their first, most critical year. Drawing on freshman learning research, the authors examine today's first year college students to reveal the factors that can make teaching freshman so difficult and challenging - including the great diversity of their educational backgrounds and learning development, their expectations about learning, and their educational goals and values. The authors identify common freshman anxieties, assumptions and habits that can impede learning progress, and they illustrate what faculty can do to overcome and dispel these obstacles - from designing a useful syllabus and developing productive out-of-class assignments to implementing innovative techniques that can enhance class participation.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Understanding freshman: from high school to college - the entering freshman
  • the first year - coping with challenges and changes
  • learning styles and intellectual development. Part 2 Teaching freshman: knowing, understanding and thinking - the goals of freshman instruction
  • preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class
  • presenting and explaining
  • encouraging student involvement in the classroom
  • fostering active learning outside the classroom
  • evaluating student learning
  • grading. Part 3: Special challenges in teaching freshman: teaching large classes
  • advising and mentoring as teaching opportunities
  • developing study and learning skills
  • strengthening commitments to freshman teaching.

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