Teaching first-year college students

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Title:

Author:

Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945-

ISBN:

9780787964399

Personal Author:

Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945-

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Publication Information:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2006.

Physical Description:

xx, 284 p. ; 28 cm.

Series:

Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

Series Title:

Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Teaching college freshmen. 1991.

Contents:

First-year students in perspective -- Intellectual development in college -- Learning styles -- Knowing, understanding, thinking, and learning how to learn : the goals of first-year instruction -- Preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class -- Presenting and explaining -- Creating involvement in the classroom -- Encouraging active reading -- Supporting active study practices -- Trying transformed teaching -- Evaluating student learning -- Grading -- Creating inclusion in first-year classroom and curricula -- Teaching large classes -- Sustaining engagement outside class : office hours, advising, and first-year seminars -- Strengthening commitment to first-year instruction.

Subject Term:

College teaching -- United States.

College freshmen -- United States.

Added Author:

Peters, Calvin B.

Strommer, Diane Weltner, 1935-

Erickson, Bette LaSere, 1945- Teaching College Freshmen.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip068/2006005273.html

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Summary

Teaching First-Year College Students is a thoroughly expanded and updated edition of Teaching College Freshmen , which has become a classic in the field since it was published in 1991. The book offers concrete suggestions about specific strategies and approaches for faculty who teach first-year courses. The new edition is based on the most current research on teaching and learning and incorporates information about the demographic changes that have occurred in student populations since the first edition was published. The updated strategies are designed to help first-year students adjust effectively to both the academic and nonacademic pressures of college. The authors also help faculty understand first-year students and show how their experiences in high school have prepared¾or not prepared¾them for the world of higher education.